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traveling Wisconsin
Oct. 25th, 2014 09:40 pmAfter stopping in at a funeral, we drove way out to Dalton (an hour and a half from here, an hour north of Madison). Cyn was taking her mother's quilt to an Amish woman who is to finish the quilting.
It was kind of interesting standing in an Amish woman's kitchen. She was baking cookies in her (modern) wood-burning stove. They didn't seem to be using electricity, but I'm wondering where the running water came from. I hadn't noticed it, but Cyn thought the lamp was oil-burning. She gave us each a hot chocolate chip cookie.
We took the scenic route back, driving by the new and old prisons in Waupun.
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Then we drove around the marsh. Horicon Marsh, Horicon National Wildlife Refuge or Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area, depending on your point of view. We stopped in at the visitor's center, which was nice. Then we went up to Horicon Ledge Park, which is on a limestone ridge, where you can see most of the marsh, which is actually pretty huge. Horicon Marsh is a marsh located in northern Dodge and southern Fond du Lac counties of Wisconsin. It is the site of both a national and a state wildlife refuge. The extinct glacial lake is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States. It's four to five miles wide, and fourteen miles long.
We were on the east side of the marsh in the afternoon, so the light was rough.
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It was kind of interesting standing in an Amish woman's kitchen. She was baking cookies in her (modern) wood-burning stove. They didn't seem to be using electricity, but I'm wondering where the running water came from. I hadn't noticed it, but Cyn thought the lamp was oil-burning. She gave us each a hot chocolate chip cookie.
We took the scenic route back, driving by the new and old prisons in Waupun.
( see more )
Then we drove around the marsh. Horicon Marsh, Horicon National Wildlife Refuge or Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area, depending on your point of view. We stopped in at the visitor's center, which was nice. Then we went up to Horicon Ledge Park, which is on a limestone ridge, where you can see most of the marsh, which is actually pretty huge. Horicon Marsh is a marsh located in northern Dodge and southern Fond du Lac counties of Wisconsin. It is the site of both a national and a state wildlife refuge. The extinct glacial lake is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States. It's four to five miles wide, and fourteen miles long.
We were on the east side of the marsh in the afternoon, so the light was rough.
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