While we were visiting my sister who lives in North Salt Lake we visited "This is the Place Heritage Park" It reminded me a lot of Nauvoo. There were all kinds of historic buildings and homes filled with furniture and items that were used during the pioneer times. Several of the buildings had demonstrations of how the pioneers made and built things--like a woman using a spindle and making yarn, a blacksmith crafting a tin lunch-box, a woman using a wood-burning oven for baking. There were several other presentations too. One of the things that was different than Nauvoo was that the kids were allowed to touch most everything. In Nauvoo most everything is "original" and they ask you not to touch, sit, or use. At Heritage Park everything was a "replica" and so we were allowed to sit on top of the rope bed and the wooden rocking chair. They just weren't quite as worried if the kids acted like kids.
Here Miss A practices beating out a rug.
LK learns how the pioneer kids would play with stilts.
My husband helps his niece use the stilts.
Turning wool into balls of yarn.
A wagon ride around the park.
My mom, sisters, and me posing with a statue of our ancestor, Mary Fielding Smith.
A demonstration of how a pioneer kitchen works.
My Dad posing next to a picture of his 3rd great grandfather Heber C. Kimball. We thought it would be funny to try to get an exact pose, and I'll be honest I was a little surprised by the family resemblance!
Apparently there is a hoop game the pioneer girls would play to practice their curtsies. My husband was a natural at it!
2 comments:
Love it! That place was so much fun!! You're missing the picture of Ethan curtseying, though. That's the best picture, ever!! :)
You and your husband have serious Mormon roots! That is really cool. Elder Ballard's great grandmother (or is it great, great?) is Mary Fielding Smith, so you must be related to him too.
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