The Pear Tree House

12/18/2025

This is a perfect example of what our rural main streets need. Having an organized plan and the people with grit and drive to revitalize our rural downtowns, this is critical to real progress and preserving our heritage. We have to keep the brick on main street people! Our downtowns don't need craters, they need character.

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day! Today, we're grateful for these birds.

Did you know?
🦃In Iowa, we have the Eastern subspecies, the largest of all five U.S. subspecies, which can get up to 30 pounds.
🦃 Turkey were once wiped out in Iowa, with the last known wild Iowa turkey seen in Lucas County in 1910. In the 1960s, the bird was reintroduced successfully with birds transplanted from Missouri.
🦃A turkey has 18 tail feathers.

https://www.iowadnr.gov/news-release/2015-04-17/cool-things-you-didnt-know-about-wild-turkey

(photo by Ben Neff from Iowa Department Natural Resources page)

11/20/2025

James Enright wrote this photo essay after many visits to 36-mile Glacial Trail Scenic Byway, which loops the Little Sioux River valley.

11/08/2025

Special thanks to Zalaznik Custom Carpentry for wrapping our fascia and the restorative work to our third floor gable ends! We were graced with good painting weather during the first week of November and it made all of the difference!

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! As you can see we have the world's largest gourd parked outside (at least it's yellow like a gourd) and it is ready to assist in completing our third floor exterior restoration!

10/10/2025

Support The Sutherland Museum by eating soup, what could be better!

10/09/2025

08/30/2025