Rogers Adventure Day: Red Barn Donuts, Daisy Air Gun Museum, the Hawkins House, and a Hit and Run!

We hit the downtown Rogers Historic District for some adventure on Wednesday. 

When we left, I challenged everyone to tell me three things they had learned and all four big kids were able to spout off interesting facts about air guns and lead balls bullets and their places of significant in history and pop culture.

As we left, the children were given cute little collectible coins with the historic building and guns on them. The coins will, no doubt, all be added to Corbin’s coin booklet. 


On to the Rogers Little Museum, which turned out to be closed for a season while a newer, fancier museum is completed.  We settled for taking a photo in front of the  Hawkins House porch.   




We went to Red Barn Donuts for sustenance, but as we turned into the suicide lane to wait for oncoming traffic to clear so we could turn left into the lot, someone behind us grew impatient and zoomed around us, too fast, and bam! They took the mirror right off and bent the whole piece back against the passenger side door. It’s jammed there and the whole thing will need to be replaced.  

Then he drove off! A hit and run? No way! Not today! 

“Follow him, Mom!” 

So I did. We chased after the large plumbing truck truck for 3 miles honking and waving, before he finally gave up and pulled over. I had barely left the car and he man was yelling at me saying I was at fault and had been in his way and that I needed to calm down.  I called a local officer from the RPD to come make a report and he was given two tickets. One, a citation that placed the accident at his fault, and the other for leaving the site of the accident. Ugh what a pain. My poor van!