Out of the small handful of field trip destinations I remember from elementary school, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House Wayside Cabin was a very memorable place. Wayside Cabin is located in Pepin, Wisconsin and is the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilders. Wayside Cabin is a log cabin that replicated what Laura’s birthplace looked like based on the books she wrote.

I remember our class just finishing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book Little House on the Prairie, before we went to visit her home. We were asked to wear prairie clothes and pack our lunch in a little pail like how they did in the novel. As a kid, that was pretty exciting news. I got to wear a white dress similar to that style, a bonnet and even got to pack my lunch in a pail. It was the first and last time for me to eat lunch from a pail, pretty cool. It was a neat experience to sit in the wooden tables and study inside.