Looking at the things in Billy Thompson’s, Arv Hus Museum, in Milan, MN is like listening to your third grade teacher read to you Laura Ingalls Wilder’s, Little House On the Prairie. He has everything from old wagon wheels, saws, bricks from long gone buildings on main street, old telephone switchboards and lots of photos with unique log picture frames that he hand crafted himself. To get a glimpse, see slideshow below.

In a world of constant motion,

where things are cast away almost as quickly as they are built,

it’s nice to know there is a place where things matter.

Not simply because of value in the things in and of themselves,

but, because of the stories they tell.