We went to St. Joseph, Missouri yesterday afternoon to the Patee House Museum. It's a real hodge podge of exhibits focusing on the "Streets of Old St. Jo" with recreated stores and offices - dentist, barber shop, oculist, printer etc. - and rooms decorated ala early 1900's. The museum also has a wonderful collection of horse drawn buggies and sleighs and railroad cars. There is a model carrousel and a real carrousel to ride. It also destroys a few myths e.g. Buffalo Bill was not a real Pony Express rider. It's not a glitzy musuem, just lots and lots or interesting things to see. St. Joseph itself has seen better days - since the stockyards closed several years ago and the big Aunt Jemima factory closed recently the economy has gone south.
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Re: Stepan's note on carousel. OED confirms it, the main entry being "carousel", the entry for "carrousel" being: var. carousel. As far as that goes, the Random House Unabridged also confirms it, although there the main entry is under "carrousel".
I suspect it might be a British vs. American thing.
Posted by Patrick | April 20, 2003 8:37 AM
Posted on April 20, 2003 08:37
No doubt my "normal" behaviour elicited the suggestion.
Posted by Cynthia | April 20, 2003 7:15 AM
Posted on April 20, 2003 07:15
Daddy, could you please confirm or deny Stepan's contribution to the spelling of carousel by checking your OED? You'll do it faster than I can check my version . . .
Posted by Elizabeth | April 19, 2003 10:16 AM
Posted on April 19, 2003 10:16
Cynthia, did you behave in some unusual way to be strongly reccomended to visit a psychiatric museum?
Elizabeth, carrousel is a valid alternate spelling for carousel (it comes from French) - especially in a museum setting. Now a carousal, on the other hand, is an entirely different kind of merry-go-round...
Posted by stepan | April 19, 2003 10:09 AM
Posted on April 19, 2003 10:09
That sounds interesting, but I will probably need to rent, "One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest" to get ready for the museum visit. :)
Posted by Theresa | April 18, 2003 12:17 PM
Posted on April 18, 2003 12:17
I wondered about the spelling when I wrote it...but didn't look it up. Be happy to show you "attractions" in the surrounding area, Theresa. The lady at the museum the other day, strongly recommended the psychiatric museum in St. Jo - I've never been to one of those.
Posted by Cynthia | April 18, 2003 7:00 AM
Posted on April 18, 2003 07:00
I'm glad to see you are scoping out the surrounding area. The next time I come to visit I would like to see more of the area and what it has to offer in the way of entertainment for the day. It really is kind of neat when you move somewhere new. It seems there is always a new discovery to be made.
Posted by Theresa | April 18, 2003 12:53 AM
Posted on April 18, 2003 00:53
Sounds like fun, although I feel obliged to point out that you have an extra "r" in "carousel". Which Jonathan rode for the first time on Monday during our trip to Houston. A carousel, that is, not a carrousel. :-)
Posted by Elizabeth | April 18, 2003 12:31 AM
Posted on April 18, 2003 00:31