At one end of the old Cowtown Museum they had a farm. Although I have lived on a farm and farms are farms, I was interested to take a look.
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I almost skipped the garden, but I can imagine something from our story happening with a garden, so I have a visual reminder of that.
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I am not sure what kind these cattle are. They were much less friendly so I would make them beef cattle. (I am not a cattle expert.)
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The farm house was a good size as farmhouses go. Often farmers had big families or more than one family living together. There was a lot of work to do on a farm.
I almost skipped the garden, but I can imagine something from our story happening with a garden, so I have a visual reminder of that.
Porches on a farmhouse were important places for work and for recreation. In the heat of the summer cooking, making soap, washing could be done or be supervised from the porch keeping out of the sun. In the winter, out of the mud or snow to put on boots or remove muddy clothing was porch work.
The interior looked fairly typical. I wished I could go upstairs, but no luck.
They had an organ at this farm which would be quite fancy I think. But farm folks often played some sort of instruments. This was before television or radio. Family sing alongs would have been entertainment. And storytelling. (My great grandfather was said to be a storyteller.)
This is the interior of the barn. I have seen the insides of many barns, but this is a reminder to me of how high and big it looks.
This sweet lady is a milk cow. She let me rub her nose.
I am not sure what kind these cattle are. They were much less friendly so I would make them beef cattle. (I am not a cattle expert.)
And this reminds me that horses would have been part of every farm life. (Even when my mom, 92, was a girl they farmed with horses.) These horses were small. They could pull carts, but probably not plows.
You still see a lot of windmills in Kansas as you drive along. Most of the ones I see in Illinois are no longer working.
I must look up this pink flower because I keep seeing it in Oklahoma and Kansas.
And that concludes the tour of the farm. There is so much more to see in the Old Cowtown.
(I will take it up another day.)