I went through it with my kids on a grade school field trip about 6 years ago. I thought that although, yeah, the gift shop etc did give it a "tourist trap" feel, there was still enough there to at least be kinda neat to see, especially for schoolkids and people not acquainted with the history of the area. I think the kids got as much out of that as they did thier trips to, for example, Chimney Rock, where they had to look at it from a half mile away...
I haven't been to Pioneer Village in Minden since I was a gradeschool kid myself(early 70's). I tried like heck every year at our local schoolboard meetings to get that to be a field trip destination for my own kids and thier classmates, but never got it done. One of these days, my kids(highschoolers now) and I are going to go so we can see it- my kids are interested in history and old things almost as much as I am.
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