Independence Rock

Yesterday we read a children's story/picture book from the library about the Oregon Trail. At one point in the story the pioneer kids painted their names onto Independence Rock. So we decided on a whim to write our names on the (sad looking) Independence Rock on our wall. We interrupted our reading to do it (you gotta take the opportunity when it knocks!) then went back to the rest of the story afterwards. We put our names, the date, and our ages (although the pioneers probably didn't put their ages). It was a fun experience.


"I'm writing, but Alexander writing. And Alexander wants to write on the piece of paper but it's not a white piece of paper, it's a brown piece of paper. It's supposed to be Independence Rock. And pioneers wrote their names on that like Alexander and Mamma and Lincoln did on that. So you can see a picture of me doing that too. And pioneers liked to write their names on that too, because that's a special time to do it." -Alexander


Alexander was so obliging for the pictures!


Maybe we should have used a Sharpie so it would show up better.

We just got a whole bunch of great pioneer library books. I was thinking of doing a post about them. Amanda, I'll pass them on to you when we're done. Or you can come read them at our house!

Here are some Independence Rock photos I found in a Google Image search:

historytogo.utah.gov/.../photo_exhibit/13.html

http://myancestry.org/pictures/IndependenceRock.jpg

www.caspercomsci.com/pages/wyoming.htm