 Here she is, all cheerful and smiley, at the Big Island Rendez-Vous near Albert Lea this weekend. She gave me a free entry ticket, and I went to see how she spends her free time. She and Jerry are big into this period re-enactment stuff, and you can read more about the Big Island Rendez-Vous here. |
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Anyway, different tour groups come to this big "vous" every year to learn about how people lived a couple hundred years ago. This year Anne was in charge of teaching various groups, mostly troups of boy scouts, how to set up a tipi. Anne owns her own canvas tipi, and frequently uses it whenever she goes camping, or to one of these re-enactment rendez-vous.
Here are some pictures of Anne teaching some boy scouts how to set this thing up:
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Did you know you were related to such an interesting person? I bet those boys went home saying to each other, "Man, that Annie lady was cool!"
