Friday, July 2, 2021

The Final Side of Irvine Park

            I’m not going to torture you with yet another tarnished map of Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls. I just need to tell you that this will be final post about our day at Irvine Park and need to share with you the wild, west side.

Our first stop along Ermatinger Drive in the woods of Irvine Park was the Pioneer Norwegian Log Home and Historical Marker.
No matter what its history, every log cabin is fascinating to me.

Just as fascinating as every one-room school house.

I had been writing my latest novel about a one-room school house. I had hoped studying this building would have jolted me back to working on it, but not yet.


It just doesn’t take much to grab my interest. I thought this bridge was as charming as those two buildings. 

Later that night, I fell into the rabbit hole of the significance of putting locks on bridges. You’ll have to click on the link below if you want to read about that.

But when instead of the locks, I started researching this particular bridge, I really got excited.


But then again, it takes so very little to make me happy, such as taking selfies with my friend. 

For more information:

            About the log cabin –

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=43658

            About the school house –

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=43255

            About the bridge –

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.wi0202.photos?st=gallery

            And another one about the bridge –

 https://bridgehunter.com/wi/chippewa/rumbly/

            One of the many articles on locks on bridges that can be found on the internet –

https://matadornetwork.com/read/every-bridge-world-got-covered-love-locks-stop/


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