Rural Life Museum
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2/15/00)

The educational portion of our trip through Louisiana did not originally include this museum, but we were glad that we visited this place. We had planned to leave Pensacola earlier the day before and eat a late lunch at Papa Joe's in the French Quarter of New Orleans. When we arrived at Bourbon Street, the sun had already set and the night crowd had started to arrive. We opted to eat at Baton Rouge, but the experience of hearing, seeing and smelling New Orleans at night will probably last with most of the children. During our one hour stroll, we saw hundreds of interesting people and only ten children. Six of them were ours.

The Rural Life Museum and Windrush gardens is located on the 450 acre Burden Research Plantation of the Louisiana State University. The museum provides insight into the largely forgotten lifestyles and cultures of pre-industrial Louisiana. Home to extensive collections of tools, household utensils, furniture, vehicles, and farming implements, the museum preserves an important part of the rural heritage of Louisiana and the nation.

As we left the museum and headed west for Texas, we enjoyed the warm weather and scenery as we traveled the elevated highway through the swampland to Henderson, LA. We headed northward toward Shreveport aiming for north Texas where we plan to visit Aunt Mary Whitford and cousins.

We took many pictures which we hope you will enjoy on our Photo Album pages.

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