And when the mail came today, it included a rebate on my computer (the notorious Circuit City case) and a check from the Carmelite Institute.
Anyway, this evening we went to the slide presentation on the photography of H. H. Bennett, and it was great. It turns out that many of his photographs were taken to be viewed in 3-D, like the old stereoscope viewfinder toys. Hard to imagine that this was in the late 1800s. Anyway, the couple who put the slides together had done a great job of selecting music to go along with it, and we had a nice tour of the museum afterwards. Definitely worth a visit when you're in town, assuming that it is open at the time.
Part of the history of the Dells captured in Bennett's photographs was the life of the raftsmen who brought the pines down the river. As a tie-in to that, they distributed tin cups like those the raftsmen used, and tomorrow the meal the festival is offering is a raftsmen's dinner -- served on tin plates with beverages in the commemorative tin cups. I don't think we get to keep the plates, though. I understand that they are being lent to the Stewards for this event (at least, that is the hope) by one of the local restaurants -- Paul Bunyan's Famous Cook Shanty Buffet.
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