Today Tom, Jonathan, Ryeleigh and I headed to Northern State Hospital as Jonathan hadn’t seen it before and had just watched Finding Lillian and was curious.
First I checked to make sure Al’s plaque was ok (no bird poop).
We waked past the dairy barns and went to the cemetery. I hadn’t been there in probably 10 years.
This was the first grave marker I found in what appears to be a lawn.
There is only one gravestone in the whole cemetery.
I hadn’t realized before, but the back fenceline has a row of grave markers from one to thirty-two.
The rest of the graveyard appears to be random (to me anyway).
We walked toward the horse barn and found this heavily-graffitied building.
I couldn’t figure out what this building was for. In my attempts I found a UW library archive of old photos of NSH which did not include this building, as well as lots of old maps of the property which also did not include this one. There was a blueprint of the tunnels which was fascinating.
So please let me know if you have an idea of what this building was for. We then headed to the main campus and looked at the buildings.
We were all pretty tired at this point (except Ryeleigh) so we headed back. There were lots of these trees around (American Chestnuts) which were quite pretty. We did see some cherry and apple trees as well.
I went home and made Hasenpfeffer for dinner. I got the idea from watching A Taste of History Season 6, Episode 6 which featured it. I immediately thought of the Bugs Bunny cartoon from my childhood and knew I had to make it.
It took me a while to procure a rabbit, but I did via Osprey Hill Farm. The recipe I used did take a 2 day marinade so I had to plan ahead. But today was the day, and here is my dinner.
It was really good although a little salty for me (not for Tom). We watched the cartoon while we ate it so that was fun too. Definitely will make this one again.