Votes for Women! in Fargo, North Dakota
Day 6
From Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Fargo? Yes, Fargo. Had the children not been with us I'd have been on the hunt for a used car lot and a wood chipper. But since they were with us I tried to find a place less William H. Macy-ish. I had planned on bringing them the Hjemkomst Viking Ship at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County to learn about the Nordic and German homesteaders who settled in the area. Unfortunately, by the time we reached Fargo the museum's visiting hours were almost over. We headed instead to Bonanzaville, a surprisingly informative and engaging museum housed in 41 historic buildings from around North Dakota. Let me tell you I was seriously impressed by this museum!
100 Years of Women's Suffrage
Bonanzaville invites you to the time in the US before women had the right to vote. You are assigned a name, a short biography, and voting tokens. Then you walk through different decades in the display where you are asked, "Can you vote?" If your biography aligns with those who have the right to vote during that decade you place a voting token in the "Yes" box. If it doesn't, then you place your token in the "No" box. As we proceeded to go through each decade, Ruby became increasingly frustrated because she couldn't vote. Leo was equally annoyed because he too could not vote. It was riveting! The kids totally got the injustice. We had a FANTASTIC conversation about how it is possible for something to be both LAW and UNJUST. It is UNJUST for entire segments of the population to be denied the right to vote because they are deemed LESS THAN. It is IMPORTANT and CRITICAL to the American process to PROTEST and SPEAK OUT against UNJUST laws. When people speak out against these laws POSITIVE CHANGE can happen like women getting the right to vote. Well done, Fargo!!
"Hello?"
After walking through the Women's Suffrage display and the rest of the areas on local history we walked through the classic car building and then the building dedicated to the history of the telephone. Again, I loved it. It had many old models of telephones that the kids could actually touch, dial, watch their operating mechanisms, AND talk to each other. Simply fantastic. Taking a cue from a YouTube video, I took a video of Leo trying to figure out to dial a rotary phone. Watch below. Hilarious!
All in all Fargo was way more than we expected. On top of the museum we ate a great meal at Kroll's Diner and the kids had a fun night swimming at the hotel pool that had a few splash pads and a spiral slide. Thanks, Fargo!
From Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Fargo? Yes, Fargo. Had the children not been with us I'd have been on the hunt for a used car lot and a wood chipper. But since they were with us I tried to find a place less William H. Macy-ish. I had planned on bringing them the Hjemkomst Viking Ship at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County to learn about the Nordic and German homesteaders who settled in the area. Unfortunately, by the time we reached Fargo the museum's visiting hours were almost over. We headed instead to Bonanzaville, a surprisingly informative and engaging museum housed in 41 historic buildings from around North Dakota. Let me tell you I was seriously impressed by this museum!
100 Years of Women's Suffrage
Bonanzaville invites you to the time in the US before women had the right to vote. You are assigned a name, a short biography, and voting tokens. Then you walk through different decades in the display where you are asked, "Can you vote?" If your biography aligns with those who have the right to vote during that decade you place a voting token in the "Yes" box. If it doesn't, then you place your token in the "No" box. As we proceeded to go through each decade, Ruby became increasingly frustrated because she couldn't vote. Leo was equally annoyed because he too could not vote. It was riveting! The kids totally got the injustice. We had a FANTASTIC conversation about how it is possible for something to be both LAW and UNJUST. It is UNJUST for entire segments of the population to be denied the right to vote because they are deemed LESS THAN. It is IMPORTANT and CRITICAL to the American process to PROTEST and SPEAK OUT against UNJUST laws. When people speak out against these laws POSITIVE CHANGE can happen like women getting the right to vote. Well done, Fargo!!
"Hello?"
After walking through the Women's Suffrage display and the rest of the areas on local history we walked through the classic car building and then the building dedicated to the history of the telephone. Again, I loved it. It had many old models of telephones that the kids could actually touch, dial, watch their operating mechanisms, AND talk to each other. Simply fantastic. Taking a cue from a YouTube video, I took a video of Leo trying to figure out to dial a rotary phone. Watch below. Hilarious!
All in all Fargo was way more than we expected. On top of the museum we ate a great meal at Kroll's Diner and the kids had a fun night swimming at the hotel pool that had a few splash pads and a spiral slide. Thanks, Fargo!
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