Squeezed in our van for a five hour drive to southern Minnesota:  six people, their clothes packed in six backpacks,, blankets, pillows, sleeping bags and mats, a tent, a cooler, a basket of food, four camping chairs, two totes of camping supplies,  a water jug, extra blankets because it was…

Inside Forestville State Park is the Minnesota Historical Society’s restored village.    The kidlets were really excited about the prospect of visiting another Minnesota Historical Society site after having just been to Split Rock.  They also have great memories of the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids.  All of these places have…

We spent the weekend in southern Minnesota at Forestville State Park  with Auntie Dot and her crew.  Forestville State Park was not a place on my radar at all.  Auntie Dot came up with the idea of meeting there, and before I thought too much about what it would mean…