Cochrane, Wisconsin - Prairie Moon

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Address:: 52727 Prairie Moon Rd., Cochrane, WI
Directions:: Hwy 35 five miles north of Fountain City. First left after Cochrane-Fountain City School onto Prairie Moon Rd.
Hours:: Daylight, but the Museum is only open Sunday afternoons May-Oct. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 608-687-9874

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Cochrane, Wisconsin - Prairie Moon

For 25 years retired farmer Herman Rusch built odd sculptures around his similarly odd museum. It's folk art -- and it's been preserved. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

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Cochrane, Wisconsin - Prairie Moon

I was scanning some old photos recently and had some of the Prairie Moon Museum. In the '70s we used to drive up from Ohio each summer and vacation across the river in Minnesota. We went to the Prairie Moon Museum a few times. I searched the web to see if it was still in existence and found an entry on your site. It mentioned that the creator, Herman Rusch, died in 1985 at age 100. I thought you might be interested in seeing this photo of him taken in 1975. I had no idea he was that old; he got around very well for 90. [mike ertel, 05/08/2009]

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November 9, 2009