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  • This wooden carving watches over the beaded jewlery, belts, postcards and other trinkets in the gift shop at the Wigwam village, a motel in Cave City.
  • After checking into the Wigwam Village with her family, Ann Soppeland checks out the concrete teepee that will be her home for the next two nights.
  • Seven Wigwam motels were built in the 1930s. Only two survive - one in Cave City, and another in Holbrook, Ariz.
  • Nathan Jernigan and his wife, Jeannie, have visited the Wigwam village for years. Now they bring their daughter, Michaela, and a group of friends from their church in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
  • Nathan played with his daughter Michaela and her friends late on an October night. 'The kids absolutly love it,' he said.

Wigwam Village

Lydelle Abbott