http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2482.htm
Thursday, August 1, 2013
We visited Harold Warp's Pioneer Village in Minden, Ne.
We visited Harold Warp's Pioneer Village in Minden, Ne. A more wonderful collection of stuff would be hard to imagine. I'm still boggled by the story of Harold Warp and his Pioneer Village creation. Here's a nice writeup about it.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2482.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2482.htm
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Oh,my goodness! My grandmother took me here when I was a child and I've never forgotten that trip! I'm so glad to see that Pioneer Village still exists. Thanks for the memories!
Oh,Lori, you have to go re-visit. It is AAA-mazing! I just hope his sons
will continue to keep up that place for future generations. Best history
museum, especially since it is in chronological order of developments.Loved
it!!!
There was so much stuff and I learned a TON! I hope they keep it up and running too. I would love to go back!
How old were you then? Your grandma was wise to take you there!
I think I was around 10-12. She always took us to cool places like that. We were on our way from Kansas to South Dakota and she said she wanted all of her grandchildren to see Pioneer Village. I think all six of us kids loved that place!
This is what I call a pivotal place. So important and so well done. Glad you all liked this place. We just kind of stumbled onto the museum last year. It took me two days to go through it. Unfortunately, Shirley was still having a lot of pain in here ankle and couldn't spend much time in the museum. The story of Harold Warp and his invention of plastic wrap is also interesting. Didn't know it had been around so long.
Harold opened Pioneer Village in 1952 or 53, saw two different dates. It really got started when he bought his old school house in 1948. Wish the old guy was still around today but he died in 1994 at the age of 90. Of course, when Laurie visited it with her grandmother his was still alive.
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