To Letha and Marlin Perks, Prairie Paradise is their home - truly in the midst of Nebraska's frontier prairie located on the very land Marlin's grandfather homesteaded in 1889. Curious travelers may wonder when they come to the tee crossing of Stockville's rural farm community and there on the hill stands the well maintained Rising Sun School District 31 schoolhouse on the same spot where Marlin first attended in 1940. Next to the school house is a log cabin and a sod house and in the foreground stands a neatly kept, white-steepled country church. Mr. Perks will probably walk up the hill from his home across the street and welcome you with keys in hand to open the doors and show you the furnishings in the buildings.
Eleven buildings now comprise Prairie Paradise - not officially a museum, but certainly a "collection of history."
The Perks do not consider their farm as a business, it is their hobby. They enjoy having people stop by and look. They welcome anyone. Tours are welcomed as they have had school classes spend an entire day "at the farm," as well as senior groups that enjoy discovering some of the old mementos they had almost forgotten about.