You can get your Laura Ingalls Wilder fix at the Center Point Historical Society Cabin Fest entitled, "Little House on the Parking Lot."

This year’s Center Point Historical Society Log Cabin Festival features Laura Ingalls Wilder and her beloved Little House books. Instead of “Little House on the Prairieâ€� it is called “Little House on the Parking Lotâ€� for the Strait Log Cabin that the Historical Society moved two years ago to the edge of the Depot Museum parking lot at 700 E. Washington along the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.

The festival is from 2 to 4 on Sunday, August 18. Sarah Uthoff, a Laura Ingalls Wilder authority and librarian at Kirkwood Community College, will do a costumed Little House presentation. There will also be children’s activities, recorded period music, and refreshments. The event is free.

The 1850s log cabin and the Depot Museum, with its 2019 special Readin,’ ‘Ritin,’ and Rememberin’ displays, will be open. If the weather is uncooperative events will be held inside the Museum.

The Strait Log Cabin, which had been donated and moved to the edge of Wakema Park in Center Point as a 1975-76 Bicentennial project, was moved to the Depot site and repaired with the help of: The Linn County Historic Preservation Commission, the Linn County Conservation Department and Center Point’s Marilyn Andersen.