But then Bill and Bob wanted to go to the Lake County Museum. On the hike, I had talked about the defunct MacDougall Lodge which is very near that section of trail on the Pere Marquette River. Mac Road, which can be found intermittently throughout Lake County is named for the family. Grant MacDougall designed a boat in the mid-1900s specifically for taking groups on river trips from the lodge. Just that morning, Bill and Bob had visited the site of the old lodge.
So we went to look at the MacDougall boat the museum has. You can see more of this story at Explore NCT.
Also in the boat room, there is a very nice Chris Craft, and some funny bathing suits.
The museum has a lot of permanent displays including this one about local logging history, but they also have three rooms where they change out the exhibits a few times a year.
We stayed until they closed. Right across the street is the art installation celebrating the Brown Trout which was first released in the US here in Baldwin. I've been meaning to get a picture of it for a long time. Finally remembered to do it.
Today was just as I said. I edited, and edited, got a load of laundry washed and dry before it rained, wrote my LDN column, and wrote chapter 30 of Vacation from DMS (882 words). I'm about worded out for one day.
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2 comments:
That museum looks like it would be interesting. That fish sure is cool
Ann- for a very small group, that museum is outstanding.
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