I went through it with my kids on a grade school field trip about 6 years ago. I thought that although, yeah, the gift shop etc did give it a "tourist trap" feel, there was still enough there to at least be kinda neat to see, especially for schoolkids and people not acquainted with the history of the area. I think the kids got as much out of that as they did thier trips to, for example, Chimney Rock, where they had to look at it from a half mile away...
I haven't been to Pioneer Village in Minden since I was a gradeschool kid myself(early 70's). I tried like heck every year at our local schoolboard meetings to get that to be a field trip destination for my own kids and thier classmates, but never got it done. One of these days, my kids(highschoolers now) and I are going to go so we can see it- my kids are interested in history and old things almost as much as I am.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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