greenfield

I really don't know where to begin with this days story. Arrived at Greenfield about 11:00 am and didn't leave until 4:30. What a great place. I'll begin by trying to describe the pictures.
The first one is a map of the park, its 81 acres in all.
The second one is a water wheel at the grain grinding mill. The next one is four men in period costume playing croquet.The next one is Sir John Bennets clock shop from england. The next is one of the horse drawn carrages that circulate thru the park that you can ride.
Then the origional home of a Mr. McGuffey of Mr. McGuffys readers. The story goes that he had writen a poem in one of his readers that Henry Fords wife enjoyed, and Henry set out to find a copy of it and then started collecting from this.The next one is the Georgia family farm of the Maddox family. The windmill si one of the last working windmills in the United States.THe next is the origional Robert Frost home where he wrote many of his poems. Then these are the slave quarters for Heritage plantation in Savannah. Then Edisons workshop from Menlo Park-this is only one of three buildings in the workshop group. Thsi is a puppet show booth,one of many little shows going on around the grounds for children.The carosel is an origional 1913 carosel with hand carved wooden horses and it gives rides. This is the Wright Bros home from Dayton. The brick buildding is the Heinz home from Pittsburg. The next one is me riding in a Model t (real 1913 model t) around the park. Rhe next two shots are model t s. These were circulating constantly giving rides. The next two shots are what is called main street. very well landscaped area. THe next is a man on an old bicycle, he constdantly circulates around for pics. Then this is the train with a real coal fired engine. It runs completely around the park. Fun ride.
The brick building is a real working roundhouse from somewhere. The last two pics are of a lady in costume.

There was so much to see and do. This should be a must for familys with kids especially. Almost all of the buildings are the real thing that was transported here and re set up. Inside of them are furniture, pictures,writings, and machinery that came from the origional building. Things like the train locomotive are real antiques that have been moved here and rebuild.
This place is a history lesson in itself.
There is a charter high school on the grounds that Henry Ford started. It now serves Wayne County,the students have to apply and are chosen by lot from the applicants. The only stipulation is that the parents have to get the kids there. They said that thay have a 99 % graduation rate. While we were there I saw several summer discovery campss that were going on here to teach the history.

The place is designed to be historical in nature,but it is set up so that it can be fun for the whole family. Really a good job.
As a sidelight, while I was riding the train around, across the street is a Ford autotest track. You could see several cars running aroud being tested.

All in all this was a great experience that i could recommend to anyone.

WhileI was writing last nights blog we had a really bad electrical storm.No damae here dbut around the region therre were over 100,000 homes without power.

Tomorrow I am going to try to go to Ann Arbor to look around.s Supposed to be a nice place,