The historic site has a museum depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln primarily in New Salem. He came to New Salem at 22 years old and was a surveyor, shop owner and postmaster! He read every book he could get his hands on and eventually became a lawyer before he went on to be President! They have reconstructed a New Salem Village with 24 buildings to explore. They have volunteers in period costume walking around some of the buildings to tell you about everything. It is very well done. They even have several gardens as they would have back in the early 1800's.
We went in to Petersburg on Monday afternoon and had lunch at the local cafe. Yesterday we drove over to the very small unincorporated town of Salisbury, Illinois. If you blink when you pass through, you miss it. We only saw a bar, an antique shop and the Morning Star Mercantile and Cafe. They had a pretty good crowd so we stopped for a late lunch. They are open from 11:00 to either 2:00 or 3:00. They had both times on the sign so we weren't sure! It was a very cute place. I had the best peach ice tea, a delicious broccoli salid with poppy seed dressing and a yummy chicken and broccoli crepe with a cheddar cheese sauce. Man it was soooo good!
Last night Nicky, Caleb and Aubrey came over to visit us at the campground! They have been really busy painting and getting ready for the carpet people to put new carpet in their house yesterday. I'm sure they were exhausted but they were so sweet to visit! Nicky is expecting another girl in mid July. We had some watermelon for dessert and I had a lips sucker for Aubrey that she enjoyed:
We enjoyed having them over..."Ain't Life Grand!"
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