July 12, 2009

Today we went to John Wayne’s Birthplace in Winterset, Iowa. The house is tiny, consisting of four rooms, a kitchen, a bedroom and two other small rooms. It even looks smaller with all the memorabilia inside. The Duke’s family and his fans have donated things representative of his life. The people of Winterset furnished the house, as it was when Marion Robert Morrison (John Wayne) was born. While it may be small, it still was extremely interesting. At the request of his family, no pictures can be taken inside the house.

John Wayne’s birthplace

In the gift shop is a larger-than-life statue of this great man, a gift of the Wayne family.