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Here is Bill & Joan just touring around the Greenfield Village. Read about their day..Below...

At around 9:00 am we drove to Greenfield Village the Ford complex. The Village is adjacent to the Ford Museum and the IMAX Theater. We presented our prepaid Annual membership and they attached red arm bands for the rides. WOW! A Disney like park everything perfect, clean and landscaped. The Village covers 90 acres of the 200+ acres. The first thing we did was board the Steam Train Ride pulled by the oldest working locomotive in the USA. The ride was 35 minutes as they stopped at three locations for folks to get off and on. Next we walked to the Roundhouse a large brick facility that can work on 10 locomotives at a time. There is a large turn table that is used to turn the heavy machines to the garage bay of choice. There were two levels and we could see the several large machine drills, lathes, planes and hammers used in the reconstruction of the locomotives. They had 4 old locomotives in the bays currently being worked on. A Baldwin locomotive was under restoration a ten year project. Next we walked the sidewalks of the beautiful Village to the Model T Loading Dock. With our red arm bands they put us on a 1914 Model T and the driver told us all about the car. He described the many sites along the way and it was a most enjoyable ride. They have 18 Model T’s and were using 8 of them for rides today. Most of the Model T’s were Black but ours was red and black with a bright brass radiator. Next we walked to the Ford Motor Company building and watched a movie presentation showing the assembly line. An old motion picture showed the actual assembly line and also the office people with Henry giving advice, orders and directions. At the end of the show they raised a curtain showing a display of the actual 15th million Model T that was built 1926. Next we walked a few blocks to the Eagle Tavern a wonderful period restaurant with recipes of the 1800’s. After a delicious lunch we took a stroll down Maple Lane a beautiful street they call Porches and parlors with period houses of famous people and interesting structures. Stephen Foster’s home, Rocks Village Toll House, Luther Burbank Garden Office, Bandstand, Susquehanna Station, Susquehanna Plantation, Plympton Family Home, Farris Windmill, Noah Webster Home, Swiss Chalet, Edison Homestead, Robert Frost Home, Hermitage Salve Quarters, Mattox Family Home, William Holmes McGuffey School and Birthplace, George Washington Carver Cabin, Chapman Family Home, Adams Family Home and more… Next we rode the large colorful 1913 Herschell Speelman Carousel. The music could be heard throughout the Village. We found a concession that served Ice-Cream and enjoyed sitting across the street from a building that had a unique clock tower with moving characters that rang four large tuned bells on the hour and half hour. The building was titled Sir John Bennett Sweet Shop from London. Main Street has 30 buildings all historic. Some of the buildings were The Wright Brothers Home and Bicycle Shop, Cohen Millinery, Hearse Shed, J. R. Jones General Store and the Logan County Courthouse where Abe Lincoln practiced Law. We visited many of the Craft Shops, Glass Blowing, Pottery and Old vertical sawmill, and a waterwheel driven mill where they were grinding corn flour. We watched a lady making tin candle holders and how she soldered the handles using an alcohol lamp and a blow tube. A process she said that existed 2000 BC. We rode the Model T’s three different models and times and we rode the carousel 2 times before we returned home at about 6:00 pm. Tomorrow we go back to see more. The weather was perfect. Bill & Joan