Just a quick note on that “Miracle of America Museum” in Polson, Montana… Look it up! See if it is on the internet somewhere. It should be! It is one of those places that you see along side the road and just keep driving. Nothing to really draw you in and spend time there exploring. The front facing the road is a simple building with “MUSEUM” on it in big letters. There is the typical old army vehicle out front… along with a battered helicopter and your typical huge wooden tug-boat type thing and a couple old cars. You step inside and are lost for hours! I mean like you can’t take it all in without literally going on overload. I left there after 3 hours or so feeling like I had motion sickness. For 3 hours my eyes were in constant motion moving from this 1930’s hair curling machine to that Japanese Rising Sun Flag from WWII signed by the troops before battle to the 1912 Harley Davidson shaft drive motorcycle of which only 1000 were ever made to the interlocked antlers of two bucks that died because they couldn’t get apart from each other and subsequently died due to starvation! There were 37 buildings ‘out back’ that were stocked up as a blacksmith shops, a doctors’ office, milking barn, schoolhouse, grainery, trappers shack or general store. There was a barn full of oddball antique cars and bikes. And one full of steam engine tractors. There was something everywhere and more behind that. It wasn’t arranged like a typical museum… no that would make too much sense. Instead, it was arranged by theme, each room or part of a room dedicated to a particular subject… but in no particular order. It went from early 1900’s household goods to WWII to old motorcycles to Boyscouts then to vintage lunchboxes and Wizard of Oz statues of a flying monkey. We could not believe that all of this “stuff” was there… and why it was not in some major museum somewhere else. There was no way you could get through that place in one day and really take in what you saw. No way to truly comprehend the vastness of Gil’s collection (Gil is the founder). I know we all have a collection disorder of one type or another but Gil has taken all of our disorders and arranged them all in one place. As he put it… “This is not my job, it’s a hobby gone wrong.”
Photos won’t really do this place justice but I will put some here anyway. And as Susan said… if you ever find yourself in Polson, Montana you HAVE to stop by and see this amazing place.
Anyway, could you put up a map with your current location with a pin or a moose or something? Or a photograph of you both standing in front of some road sign so we could know that your not just making this stuff up???? Miss you and keep the cards and letters rolling in!
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