Nauvoo in winter is a bit quiet outdoors…..but when springtime arrives, everything changes in an instant! Here are a few of our favorite activities as Nauvoo comes alive after a cold winter season. No. 1 – Prairie Fire Demonstration Every year in late March or early April, the community gathers to watch a 1-acre section…
A demonstration. That’s the only way to see a prairie grass fire. During my childhood, I read books like Caddie Woodlawn that mentioned prairie grass fires. (I really didn’t even know what a field of prairie grass looked like, until I moved to Nauvoo.) In Historic Nauvoo there’s a quarter-acre section of prairie grass that…
