Hawks' Farm Museum

We rambled from one thing to another in our visit to Dale and Martha Hawk museum in Wolford, North Dakota.  In hindsight, while many things were curiosities, far too often we recollected something like them in our past.  Should things really be displayed if the users are still living?  Of course, only one of us grew up in agriculture...

Did this carry bundles of sheaved grain?

We know these tracks were in those barns that have a peak coming forward from the top of the hip roof and were used to carry loose hay into the mow.

And, this is a hay mower, originally pulled by horses.  This one was converted to be pull by a tractor, similar to the one Grandpa Steenwyk used.

 We even found the old telephones like they used on the farm at 5550 Chicago Drive!

 Of course, I"m a little more oriented toward the things inside the house rather than the barn.  I couldn't believe it.  This house,that probably preserves many things from times other than the era it replicates, has a shelf full of old National Geographics!  No one's been able to throw them out since they were first published in 1888!

Oh, yeah, made me think of home when I saw this table.  I've a little more room at mine but this is impressive--

 particularly when you realize the time -- no dishwasher, probably no running water, no gas range, and on wheels!

 And this, I covet.  What an amazing library building.  Lawyers always did have the bucks for books...