Wilder Farm in Burke celebrates anniversary in June
BURKE — Laura Ingalls Wilder and her “Little House” books are best known for the prairie locations where Laura grew up, but “Farmer Boy,” the second in the series, describes her husband’s boyhood in very upstate Burke.
The 84-acre farm on which he lived boasts the only original “Little House” still on its original location, as well as reconstructed barns, a museum/gift shop, picnic pavilion and a walk to the same Trout River in which the Wilders fished, cut ice and washed sheep.
From May 24 through Sept. 30, guided tours are available daily. Visitors on tour can imagine animals in the barn stalls and view 19th-century farm implements from buggy wrenches to fanning mills.
As the tour moves into the not-so-little farmhouse, individuals can envision Almanzo bathing by the kitchen stove, his mother Angeline preparing food in the pantry and the shoemaker working at the cobbler’s bench in the dining room. As special guests, visitors are allowed into
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