Unfortunately, Liz didn't know what it was either!
In fact, over several years, no one has figured out what it was for.
It weighed a lot. Anyway, I thought I'd pass in on to the
ADT community in the hope that someone out there knows . . . anyone?
[EMAIL LIZZIE HERE]
My five days in Iowa flew by.
I loved every minute of it -
I suspect I must have been an Iowan in a previous life.
I left in a torrential rain storm - I mean torrential.
We'd actually had a tornado warning the night
before and the sky was ominously black as I left the house.
By the time I cleared town it was belting down,
and I'm used to RAIN in Sydney.
Despite the rain there was one more stop I had to make
before leaving Iowa: the Living History Farm
at Urbandale, which you can see HERE
(Not the most exciting of web sites, but it is a fantastic place
- could have spent a whole (dry) day there easily.)
It was a serendipity-generated visit. In Perry,
I'd picked up an old (1976) Quilter's Newsletter Magazine;
in it there was an article about a lady (in Iowa of all places!)
who collected quilts and had just donated her collection to . . . . .
the Living Farms Musuem. So of course I had to stop to have a look.
Unfortunately the main bulk of the collection wasn't on display,
but the people there very kindly gave me a calendar from 2008
when they'd had a major exhibition of them all.
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