Indianapolis - Conner Prairie

Hi y’all! Happy Fall (Autumn), it’s almost Halloween! This weekend we went to Indianapolis, the state capital of Indiana.

But forget any or all of that stuff ‘because I’m talking about Conner Prairie! Conner Prairie is this brilliant place where you can go back in time to 1836! We went first to the Lenape Indian camp and saw a ‘tepee’ that turned out to be more than just a tent and more a fur-trader’s shop that had some old furs from when the fur-trade was BIG. There were skunks, otters, deer, muskrats, beaver, and many other horrors. There was going to be a tomahawk throwing contest, but we missed it. 

Dad pretending to be a fur-trader!

We then travelled, with a quick detour through the first brick house in Indiana, to Prarietown. It was all 1836. We first went to a chemist, where we played dominos and discussed the ‘modern’ science of the 19th century. (Everybody was sooo in character.)  We not-so-swiftly moved on to a house with nothing but a housewife in it, a carpenter's place, the inn, the store, and a bakery where they were making very smelly cider vinegar!


The storekeeper

The potter

The blacksmith’s was closed, but we went to the potter’s workshop and watched him make a pot really quickly, and then to the ANIMAL BARN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were goats just wandering about all over the place, a VERY cute calf and CHICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ones inside the cage pecked your fingers, and the ones outside the cage… you were allowed to PICK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eeeek! Aaahhhw! CUTE!!!

I LOVED IT!

To read more about Conner Prairie, click here.