On our way from Grand Teton across southern Wyoming and into Utah...
We stopped in Montpelier, Idaho, to take a look at the 'National Oregon Trail/ California Trail Museum.' It's a series of exhibits that detail what the settlers to this area endured as they came here by wagon train in the 1800s. The basement has a whole bunch of different exhibits. One of them featured an old manual typewriter from the early 1900s. The museum docent was explaining to a girl of about 10 how the typewriter worked. The girl was fascinated - as if she was seeing an object from outer space. The manual carriage return was especially interesting to her. (Of course the typewriter was probably from the 1940s or 50s - hardly an exotic thing for anybody over 40.) So it was just another opportunity for us to feel much older!!!
Many of the people who settled in the Bear Valley area of Idaho were Mormons who were fleeing religious persecution in England in the mid to late 1800s. I did not even know there were Mormons in England at that time. (One of the couples featured in museum exhibits was Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ashley. HA HA)
Oh, yeah, Pearl was in the trailer while we enjoyed the museum. She was thrilled - as you can see from this "Help! I'm in prison!" expression.
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