Stonefield

My mother loved the rich history of America.
We went to a lot of historic places in the central part of the United States.
Most of our time was spent in Illinois and Wisconsin, with occasional jaunts through the southeast part of Missouri and into Arkansas,... or to Tennessee via Kentucky.
We did not make any grand tour of it, nor did we visit a great number of historic places....
but when we did stop for more than an hour.... those are the times I remember.

My niece was with us,... I am not certain who else,... when we visited Stonefield in Wisconsin.
There is not anything in particular that I remember about Stonefield.  It is just the best, clearest memory I have of a location.  Perhaps that is because, many times, the visits were shorter.
My niece, she is just a few weeks younger than I... the two of us, young teens, did not really want to visit historic villages.... we just wanted to hang out someplace where we could escape the summer heat,..and smoke cigarettes.  To be out of view of the grown ups, and smoke and talk about things that teenage girls talk about.

In reality we were paying attention to some of the history and the stories.... enough so, that as adults we agreed that we were glad that my mother "made" us visit historic sites.

Any time we were on a road trip to anywhere we kept an eye out for billboards advertising roadside attractions... on the lookout for anything that was "different" or any cave tours.... because our car did not have an air conditoner.  

Many places,... Hannibal, MO .... Sioux Falls, SD, .... Heber Springs, AR,....
Rebel Cave in Missouri,... Dog Patch,.... Mammoth Cave in KY,.... The House on The Rock in Wisconsin..... Wisconsin Dells.....

Years and years later I feel a warm sense of nostalgia whenever I visit a historic place.

Thanks mom.
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It's a pretty drive up to:
Stonefield Historic Site, 12195 County Hwy VV, Cassville, Wisconsin
take Hwy 133 from Potosi....through farmland and down to the east side of the Mississippi River.....
lovely little town. Cassville.
If you have the time to take your time, and to book ahead,...try to get a room at the Eagle's Roost... it was clean, quiet, and comfortable for one night.
(I was in Cassville for work in the fall a few years ago.
Autumn is a beautiful time of year for visiting southern Wisconsin.)

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