The REAL Hop Museum

Posted by Sierra Does anyone reading this remember the post I wrote way back at the beginning of the trip entitled, “The Hop Museum”? (If not, you can read it.) I wrote about a museum in Toppenish, Washington, “City of Murals.” This museum called itself a “Hop Museum.” Ha! Compare it to the one in [...]

Trash Talk

Posted by Sierra It’s heavy, it’s packed together, it’s made of garbage! What is it? A cube of garbage? Close, but not quite. Guess again. Give up? It’s the one, the only … Traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashosaurus! And where does this “dirty” dino live? The Children’s Garbage Museum, of course. Located in Stratford, Connecticut, how you view this [...]

Beer vs. Mustard

Posted by Sierra Here we are at the S.S. Destination Dome. It’s the final round of Museum Madness and … oh! The crowd goes wild as our first contestant enters the arena! He’s strong, he’s packed with info, he lives in Potosi, Wisconsin! Please welcome … Brewy, the National Brewing Museum! And the crowd falls [...]

Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts

Posted by Sierra It is easy to think that the Royal Tyrrell Museum only tells about dinosaurs. It is located in Drumheller, Alberta, which is about as dinosaury as it gets. Around town are a ton of dinos, and the world’s largest dinosaur, who is 84 feet, lives in town (more about him later). But [...]

Ice Age, Explained

Posted by Sierra Long ago, before and during the last great ice age, a land bridge connected Siberia with North America. This was how woolly mammoths, as well as other animals, came to North America. You may be wondering several things, such as,”Where did Beringia go?” The answer is: Nowhere. Beringia is still there, except [...]

L’Usine du la Fromage

Posted by Sierra The Darigold cheese factory in Sunnyside, Washington, gives visitors an interesting view of cheese. It has a short, self-guided tour of part of the factory. Above the processsing room is a catwalk-level exhibit in two corridors explaining the process of making cheese, as well as facts about cheese. The tour starts off [...]

The Hop Museum, Version 2

Posted by Sierra In the small town of Toppenish, Washington, which is known as “City of Murals” is the American Hop Museum. The museum starts out, innocently enough, with a 10-minute video, which explains the process of growing and selling hops, starting with planting the seed and ending with sending fully grown hops off to [...]

The Hop Museum, Version 1

Posted by Daria I hate to kick a man or a museum when it’s down, but the American Hop Museum in Toppenish is really a sad place. It’s a small repository that obviously lacks funds for upkeep. The introductory video is out of date, as are the exhibits. It’s dirty and dusty. Bags of ancient [...]

The Golden Spike

Posted by Sierra Bang! Crash! Boom! Settlers first thought it was a passing storm. But the “storm” didn’t pass for seven years. Even when all was quiet, the sound echoed in the ears of poor, sleepless homesteaders. What was the cause? The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads were being joined into one long transcontinental [...]

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