Independence, Kansas-a wide spot in the road of Southern Kansas which has a surprising number of sort of interesting things nearby. Their tiny little zoo has the descendants of the First Monkeys in Space. They have a pretty nifty little Halloween festival they call Neewllaw-Halloween spelled backwards. And they have one of the seemingly endless spots where Laura Ingalls had a cabin on the prairie.The Little House on the Prairie site is a pretty modest affair, four buildings and a wagon. One of the buildings is a gift shop with magnets and books and copies of the TV show for…