Author: traci
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Swiss Heritage Center – Part 2 After we finished watching the glockenspiel at the Clock tower, we first visited a tiny bit of the inside museum while waiting for the other couple to return. (I’ll share photos from the inside museum in a different blog post.) First we visited the Baumgartner Church which was the…
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Swiss Heritage Center – Part 1 After we finished with the Luginbill House, we went over to the Cheese House. We learned how they made the Amish cheese which was interesting. Did you know they have to boil the milk in a copper pot and check the constancy later with a silver spoon? It’s interesting…
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On Monday, my work space in my classroom was littered with folders, paper books, pens, pencils, and copies of worksheets. One of my students told me that it looked as though a tornado had blown through my room. Throughout the day, I provided services for my students while creating an emergency sub tub in my…
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Random photos of Berne, Indiana As I previously said, Berne, Indiana really did not have a lot to explore. If you wanted Amish furniture, you could certainly find it. The clock tower and the architecture is wonderful. It’s a small town so there is not much there. There is one other interesting place. That is…
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Before I begin with this blog post, I should tell you they’ve changed how we write blog posts. It’s going to be interesting writing this blog post today. Clock Tower Hubby geocaches. One of his geocaches was located at their war memorial so we headed there first. After we finished at the war memorial, we…
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Johnny Appleseed’s Grave Site Forty-five minutes south of Fort Wayne is a little Amish town called Berne. The founders immigrated from Switzerland by way of Ohio. A lot of the architecture reminds me of what I think of when I’ve seen Swiss architecture. I felt as though I was in another world when I was…
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Visiting the Art Museum When researching ideas of what to do in Fort Wayne, I discovered John Chapman; aka Johnny Appleseed had lived there. We decided to try to find the grave site. Close to the grave site is the Johnny Appleseed Campgrounds. That is where we ended up at first. We weren’t far from…
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Part 4 of our visit to the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo After we were done with the zoo, we went to the Museum of Art. It was between lightly raining and raining harder so we could not really explore the downtown area. We enjoyed the Museum. Since it was the Friday before Halloween, they had…
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Part 3 They had a deal where the train ride was free to everyone on the day we visited. Earlier in our visit, we saw it went past some beautiful fall foliage so we decided to ride the train. We ended up the next people up for the ride when we got in line so…
