A Side Trip to Yesterday — on Our Way Back Home
A highlight of our day was watching this singing group under a shade tree — Sweet Adeline…
Sadie and Lily in the garden of a darling tea house/cottage
What's this? Matthew on his Blackberry!?
Demonstrations run all through the day — here we watched glass artisans create a snowman — hot!
On our yearly camping trip to Michigan, we almost always make a stop at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., on our way home.
Greenfield Village, and the Henry Ford Museum next door, make up the nation’s largest indoor-outdoor history museum complex. Walking into the Village is a like walking into the past. There are nearly one hundred historical buildings; including the Wright brothers’ bicycle shop and home and Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory. They’re all set up in a pretend town, with people dressed in period costumes, talking like they just stepped out of another century. For transportation, you can take a ride on the steam train, a Model T or a horse drawn carriage. You can even eat an authentic lunch at the Eagle Tavern, where they serve from an 1850′s menu. All in all — very cute!
After the Village, we strolled over to The Henry Ford Museum, which has some really great exhibits of American Industrial wonders! Along with a huge collection on all kinds of vehicles and engines there are some of our particular favorites:
- Buckminster Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion house.
- Thomas Edison’s alleged last breath in a sealed tube! (weird!)
- The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- … and not to be missed, the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile!
I'd like this in my bedroom
Sadie and Lily give scale to this humongous steam engine
You'd have to look pretty cool driving down the road in this beauty
It was fun, but at the end of the day, we had to get back on the long road home
Pennsylvania's long but pretty
