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Date Posted: 11:40:34 06/28/02 Fri
Author: Ann
Subject: Frontier House--Mark Glenn

I read a bit more about Mark Glenn in Montana. He is there for a month to work on the ranch of the guy who owns the property on which the Frontier House cabins were built and he is staying in the cabin that he lived in while on the FH project. I'm assuming when the month is up, he will not be living there.

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[> There's a museum -- Ann, 21:42:57 06/29/02 Sat

now with artifacts from FH. You can see photos at http://www.frontierhousemuseum.com

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[> [> I went to the Frontier House museum yesterday -- nancy, 19:50:16 07/02/02 Tue

Hi all, long time no post. Yesterday I drove the 200 miles from my house to Nevada City MT to see the Frontier House museum. There is NOT an actual "FH" museum, even though they call it that online -- some of the items used by the Brooks, Clune, and Glenn families have been put in existing old cabins that are part of the 'ghost town' of Nevada City. This is where the families were 'trained' how to be pioneers. See:
http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/nevadacitymt.htm

That page makes it look a LOT nicer than it is...

It was a real disappointment, but the drive is always beautiful (g). There are no guides and it's not a living history museum or anything; you pay $5 to walk around and look in the windows of old buildings - about 30 or so of them. Some have old crap inside, some you can actually walk into a few feet before you're stopped by a gate (such as an old post office). The FH cabins were locked and always will be, and the only way to take pictures was through the windows. I noticed that the items aren't arranged exactly like they were for the photos on the FH Museum website.

These are NOT the original cabins used on the show. As part of the agreement with PBS, the rancher who owned the land where the experiment took place was allowed to keep the Brooks and Clune cabin. The Glenn cabin was already on his land before the show. Those cabins are about 50 or so miles away on private property and no visitors are allowed.

There was a cheesy giftshop but it had no FH merchandise for sale (I asked; they never had any), although the woman at the place you paid had the book. I was really hoping for a Frontier House t-shirt (g) ... No signs anywhere said anything at all about FH, and the woman didn't even mention it to the two couples who paid to enter before me. I said, "I thought there was FH stuff here," (thinking I might be in the wrong place) and she said there were signs on the houses that contained items, but she didn't seem at ALL interested, although she sure did her best to get me to pay $25 to join the historical society and I think she would have told me her whole life story if I had stuck around very long.

There was a little "Brooks" sign on one cabin and a "Glenn" sign on one, but the Clune cabin was not marked that I could see. They were spread out throughout the grounds so I had to go from building to building and look in windows.

You could see the Clunes' sewing machine (no sign of the still that I could see!) in the window; it had a modern plastic spool of polyester thread on it. Saw a rolling ball pen in a tin can of wooden knitting needles and stuff at the Glenns'. Could read the baking ingredient labels on jars in the Brooks window - the jar of cinnamon sticks was still completely full. All the trunks that I saw looked brand new, and most of the clothes didn't seem to be on display; I was looking to see dressy stuff and didn't see any through the windows. The clothes that were on display were really stained with dirt.

There is another historical town a few miles away, Virginia City. See:
http://www.virginiacitychamber.com/
It was really touristy, with train rides and stagecoach rides and honky tonk bars and lots of genuine MT souvenirs made overseas (g). Really just a main street lined with shops on both sides. No FH stuff there either.

I put some pictures up here (after I wrote all this, sorry):
http://www.pioneergirl.com/FH.htm
The page won't be up for more than about a week.

--Nancy

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[> [> [> Re: I went to the Frontier House museum yesterday -- Ann, 20:01:09 07/02/02 Tue

Oh, how disappointing. Thank goodness it was at least a nice drive. Too bad it is promoted as a FH museum, doesn't sound as if it is much of one at all. I'd want to see the cabins were they were on the show!!! Maybe someday the rancher will decide he can make some good money by turning that part of his ranch into a real FH museum.

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[> Re: Frontier House--Mark Glenn -- Jennifer, 10:48:14 07/01/02 Mon

Ann what would I do without you and the updates! I am sure it doesn't seem as though I am very interested in it, but I truly am - I just haven't had the time to get the book and video yet! So I truly appreciate all these details you post :-)

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[> [> My pleasure! -- Ann, 14:42:11 07/01/02 Mon

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