Today, visited Fort Worth's Log Cabin Village. This is a collection of authentic log cabins from around Texas (mostly North Central and North West Texas). I have lived in Fort Worth for many years now - for about 6 years I lived just down the street from this "living museum" (a comfortable walking distance at that) and would pass it by daily and yet I never went in. You would think that my love of Texas history that I would have visited long ago.
Anyway, it's quite interesting. The Parker cabin is here. Parker County was named after the Parkers and two of the daughters were kidnapped by indians. One, Cynthia Ann, survived but lived through some brutality that I just can not imagine ever in my worst nightmares. Quanah Parker, her son by her indian husband is a famous Texas figure - although I do not know if he actually did anything except be the son of a famous Texan woman and Chief of a tribe. He has a town named for him up near the panhandle at the beginning of the north end of Hwy 6. I've camped in Quanah, TX before. The cabin has a breeze-way in the middle, which was unusual but not all together unheard of. The heat of Texan summers is brutal and the breezeway helped a great deal.
The Parkers were also friends of MY personal favorite Texan hero, Sam Houston. He'd sit in this chair when he would visit.
It's a TINY chair and Sam was NOT a short little guy. But, you take what you can get with sparse pickin's.
Anyway, I took about 40 photos of log-cabin type stuff but not in the mood to post much more than what I have already done. I did have a good day and the weather was perfect although a tad chilly. There were a few costumed people there to answer questions and give demonstrations of how people lived back in the pioneering days of Texas. I personally have no desire to live in that era. =)
One more thing... this house overlooks the village. I found the juxtoposition amusing:
Yes, this is a house - not an office building.
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