Pioneer Village

For over 30 years we have been going to Alabama to see Gene and George and every time we would pass " The Pioneer Village" we would say...." some day we are going to stop there". Well, the day we drove up to Gene and George's to spend the night before going on to the land this trip, was the " day we stopped". We were really glad we did because it had a lot of very interesting things in the museum. Every thing from antique farm implements, rooms of furniture from the 1800's, a hearse and a coffin,( that was really creepy) to a cotton gin, stores, also dentist and Dr's offices from the 1800's . (those were creepy too!) They were having a quilt show that weekend and there were quilts draped over everything and hanging from the ceilings. My favorite one was of appliqued cotton balls. Besides the big museum building, there were all kinds of " out buildings" and an old train. They actually had real chickens in the chicken house. The covered bridge was one of my favorite things there. We really had fun learning about Alabama history and taking the pictures of it all.