Marceline and Mill

Hello Kahunas, I have a lot to tell you because the camps I have been staying at did not get good wi fi so I could not write to you. Today was a very special day for me. I left St. Louis and went west on Highway 70 and then north on 5 to a little town called Marceline. This is the town where Walt Disney lived when he was a little boy. I visited the train Depot where he came into town when he was four years old. Now the depot is a family museum. This is where he began to love railroads and trains. I went to the park where musicians would play music in the Gazebo and Walt and his family would have picnics and listen to the concerts. I saw the Engine and Caboose he gave them when he grew up. I walked down the street that he copied as Main Street in Disneyland. I visited the house he used to live in and I walked down the hill to see his dreaming tree and his barn. Walt liked to lay down under his tree and look at bugs and mice and other animals. This is where he got ideas for cartoon animals to use when he grew up. Everyone is allowed to write in his barn so I did too. It is a good thing I am a monkey because I had to look all over for a place to write. Now eveyone will know about the Kahunas.
Then I had lunch and went to a town called Lawson near Kansas City. There is a State Park there called  Watkins Woolen Mill.  They made cloth and blankets and yarn there. I went into their big house and climbed their stairs. They went around like a slide. I saw the cage where one daughter kept her pet squirrels. I saw the round grinding stone. Then I saw the deep square pit they dug inside a little building and lined with stone. This was for ice. In the winter when the rivers and ponds froze, they took that funny tool I am sitting on and went back and forth across the ice and cut it into blocks. They they filled the pit with layers of ice with sawdust between each layer. This kept the ice from melting very much. Then in the summer when they needed ice, they went to the ice house and dug out a chunk. That was a lot of work. I am glad I have a refigerator. I saw another big loom and their summer kitchen. They had a kitchen in the house and one outside for when it was very hot in the summer.  I visited their garden and saw their bee hives. Sugar was very expensive so they used the honey the bees made to sweeten their food and they used the wax in the hives for candles.  I went then down the rroad to the Mill. It was a very big brick building, that was 4 stories tall. They made the bricks on the farm. I sat down on the walkway to look at the old nails. What shape are the nails we use now on the head end? These nails were square. They did not have electricity then so they burned lots of wood to make steam to run the machines in the mill. They piled the trees up like teepees so the wood would dry out better before they cut it into pieces. Part of the building was used for a Grist Mill. That is where they would grind the wheat into flour to make bread and biscuits and cakes and pies. I saw the old store. That old building was full of stairs and I was very tired and went back to Cmor to sleep.