This past weekend we were able to go to Tucson with Sarah and Becky. We went to The Colossal Cave National Park and took the tour of the cave. We also checked out a couple of the other attractions mentioned on their website, but those were a little bit of a bust. The cave was pretty interesting though. We learned that the 362 stairs, the railings, and the lights were added by workers during the Great Depression. They were hired by the government to do the work and made about a dollar a day. We also learned that there are seven species of bats that make their home there. It is also a constant temperature in the cave--a balmy 70! We thought that was pretty crazy considering it was 101 yesterday!
Sarah, Becky, and Jeff in The Colossal Cave.After visiting the park, we headed to the hotel for a quick swim and shower before heading to The Gaslight Theater (you can check out their website at http://www.thegaslighttheatre.com/) It is a really fun little theater that does old time melodramas. We saw "Buccaneers of the Caribbean." We enjoyed the show immensely, and also enjoyed bee-bopping around before the show started!
Becky (Jeff's sister) and Sarah (Michelle's sister) enjoying a stage coach ride at the theater.
Jeff and Michelle....Nice legs Jeff!
On the way down to Tucson, we were able to stop and do a couple of fun things. We stopped at Roger Cogburn's Ostrich Farm to feed the ostrich, deer, and larikeets. We also got to stop at one of the places Sarah delivers ice cream. Here are a few pictures from that:
Sarah and the scary ostrich!
Jeff and the larikeet
The Girl's by the buffalo!
We are home now--which is good since we are all a little sunburned, and really tired from our really fun weekend
2 comments:
The construction mentioned was part of the New Deal trying to put people back to work. It was probably part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). That group did public works, canals, sidewalks.etc., constructed privies for rural people (I remember seeing the WPA logo in the cement; you probably can still see it in older areas of sidewalks. My father worked for the WPA for some time when no other work was available. Uncle Wilmer Porter worked for another program, the Civil Conservation Corps who mostly worked in national parks and forests. As mentioned, a dollar a day wasn't much, but it was something. This during a time when one of my friends related that buying a single stick of gum for 1 cent was a joint decision for his parents. I was probably a teenager before I realized how poor monetarily our family had been while I was growing up. I knew we didn't have any money, but I never thought of us as poor.
Now that you mention it, it was the CCC that put in all of the amenities at the cave. Thanks for the info!
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