The stone building sits out by itself, but spend any time here and it becomes clear there is plenty of life on the prairie. One wonders what it would have been like on a school-day morning, with children coming from miles away for the day’s lesson. Uphill. Both ways.

The Fox Creek Picnic Blanket plays with prairie themes. There are flowers, butterflies, vines, and leaves, all of which are surrounded by an army of ants coming to check out what’s for lunch. It’s an imaginative Fair Isle project.