October 7, 2018 – Pine Lake State Park, Iowa

We explored the area including the small town to the south. We found the fairgrounds and a small museum on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and about the POW Camp that was on this site. The museum was closed, but when we went to leave a gentleman pulled up in his truck and asked if he could help. We said we were looking around and found the museum closed. He said with a smile, give me two minutes and I will open it for you. He was one of the volunteers coming in to do some work on the internet. For the next hour, with his help wed had the building to ourselves. The only request he had was that we sign his visitors log. We also left a donation.