Little Feather Center Pipestone Minnesota

Old Things

During the summer 2002, we had visitors to Pipestone some who came into the Little Feather Center, we thought that you may be interested in seeing some of them.

Model T Fords

This group of cars arrived at the Center one day in August, they parked outside and came in to see the Museum, we took advantage and took some photos to add to the museum.

These are such distinguished cars, none today can touch them for class and staying power. The people in this club were in Pipestone for a week, and it was great to see these cars mingling with todays modern ones.

Stereopticon

Yet another day a man came in toting a contraption that we had only ever seen on 'Little House on the Prairie'. We checked it out and it was amazing. A Stereopticon viewer and it's photographs are a great invention of Victorian times. He decided to leave them with us for the people coming in to the Museum to see. In the picture below a younger visitor enjoys the show.

Stereopticon

girl using stereopticon

B17 Bomber

There was also a B17 Bomber that arrived in Pipestone for a few hours, we went to see it. Also called a 'Flying Fortress' this old aircraft was used during the Second World War in Europe. Below are various photos of the aircraft .

B17

1,(below) 2 & 3: The B17, Sentimental Journey, comes in and circles the city of Pipestone, then comes back thru again to land at the airport. We stood under the flight path and it went right over the top of us. A pretend land-girl waves at it, as they did in England in the 1940's.

4. A picture of Betty Grable is painted on the side of the plane and our Betty stands underneath her namesake.

5. Chuck speaks to an elder of the Pipestone Community other people are looking at the plane and spending time chatting socially to one another.

chuck speaking to friend close to B17