Visiting the Geographical Center of North America Monument wasn’t the magnet that drew us to the heart of Rugby, North Dakota but was a definite bonus. We headed here to visit the Prairie Village Museum, a Harvest Hosts site and an amazing collection of Americana dating back to the 1880’s and chronicling life on the prairie from the late Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century. It’s a self guided walking tour of the twenty buildings and four exhibit halls that comprise the museum, from an 1885 log cabin to the 1930’s city home of a successful businessman, from a one room 1906 schoolhouse to a two story school building that served the community into the 1960’s, and so much more. Besides the geographical center monument, two of the museum’s exhibits rate mention on the Roadside America website: the world’s tallest man, and Queen Victoria’s gown.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
The warmth we anticipated when we headed to the Caribbean in mid-January didn’t really materialize but the fun we had with our dancing friends and the great crew of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander more than made up for the not so favorable weather.
This looks like a place I want to put on my list!