Parson's Indian Trading Post — Local services in Lake Delton

Both my wife and I came here as children, and remember it fondly. It is but a shadow of it's former glory. So much could be done to improve it. There are two buildings connected by a short breezeway. (For lack of a better word) The building to the left consists of one room and has native American handcrafts and various historical items and some items for sale. It is nearly impossible to tell what is and is not for sale. The building to the right has lots of tourist items, most made in China. The building to the right has at least 4 rooms. In my never to be humble opinion, they should remove everything for sale from the left building and move it into one room in the building on the right. Then consulate the cheaper items in the three remaining rooms. Then turn the building on the left into a museum and charge 2 or 3 bucks for admission, and give a one dollar arrowhead to each kid and bam, you have a money maker. In our short time there (visited twice) all kinds of people walked through and bought nothing... or charge $10 admission and give a $5 coupon towards something in the store.. whatever... The two men working on the left side today were so unfriendly, morose, disinterested, and uninformed that I left without buying anything. Had they been helpful, engaging, and upbeat, they could have got me to buy something. I did buy something from the right side, it caught my eye and I bought it in spite of the fact that not a person in the store could tell me what it is... if you know, ...

Used to go to this place every time we visited when I was a kid. Today, I've made the decision never to walk into the store again. (The merchants on the left not the right) One of the employees was rude, disrespectful, and crossed physical boundaries when he grabbed me by the elbow to guide me to an area. I've never been treated with such disrespect and I have certainly never been forcefully touched by any employee. He also made a lewd comment about potentially being slapped for leaning over to get something from a shelf parallel with my dress line. I did not realize the magnitude of this disrespect until I had already left the store. I am sorry I even made a purchase....

So I dont even know how to rate this. Just wanted to put this Been coming here my whole life and as a family tradition. Came here the otherday only to find out its basically permanently closed. The worker in the museum said it was due to no staff. Honestly it makes sense cause the past 5 years there has been less and less stuff in the gift shop portion over time. The staff Honestly was always rather unhappy and it sucks I always did my best to be respectful and polite but it didn't matter to them they acted like we didn't need to be there. So I mean for this place to close kinda makes sense. Just sucks cause it was a family...