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Solar Eclipse of August 2017 and a Little House on the Prairie Sites Tour

To make it easier to find all the posts about our Eclipse and Little House on the Prairie Tour, I'm compiling a link of them all here.

Getting to the Eclipse
     Gothenburg, Nebraska
     Buffalo Bill's House in Nebraska
     Scottsbluff, Nebraska
     Fort Laramie, Wyoming
     Eclipse
Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, South Dakota
Keystone, South Dakota (Carrie's home) 
Side trip to the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota
De Smet, South Dakota
     The Homestead
     Wilder Museum
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Side trip to Harkin Store, New Ulm, Minnesota
Pepin, Wisconsin
     Driving through Minnesota and Iowa
     Log Cabin
Burr Oak, Iowa
Site trip to Cemeteries in Black Hawk County  (Boyles and Hackett - Kerr genealogy)
Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri
Little House on the Prairie, Independence, Kansas


We had a wonderful trip.  The eclipse was absolutely amazing!!  We can hardly wait for the next North American eclipse that is suppose to go directly over our house.

Visiting the Little House sites was awesome too.  I liked being able to see the places Laura talks about, it makes it much more real.  What I also find interesting is that Laura's legacy is her books, Pa's legacy is Laura's books, Rose's legacy is Laura's books.  Where is the Ingall's family today?  Gone.  There are cousins alive, I'm sure; there are no direct descendants of Charles and Caroline Ingalls or of Laura and Almanzo Wilder.  So, while she has written these wonderful books about life in the 1880's and 1890's, she has no family to care, no great grandchildren taking side trips to visit her grave (notice the only cemetery we stopped to visit) or to write to the county clerk in a far away location for evidence of her existence.

What is our legacy?  Are we raising faithful Christian children who will love God and follow His commands?  or are we raising children who love the world?  Are we raising children who will in turn raise Christian children?  Or are we raising children who will see children as a burden and forgo having a family?  What will our legacy be?

Comments

Johnna said…
Oh my! Yes, we live in Texas as well and are looking forward to the next eclipse coming over our area.

Blessings,
Johnna
October 3, 2017 at 5:41 PM
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