Amma and Poppie suggested that we go to the Shelburne Museum. We tried to go the first day we got in the area but got rained out. It made for a nice morning of laundry, school work and groceries. Day two we headed to the Museum. What fun! There was a lot of Vermont history. In some ways it was similar to the Ford Museum.
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| Round barn - build for efficiency |
The circus building was an interesting horse shoe shaped building build to house their collection of hand carved circus models. A gentleman spent 30 years carving the models from photos of the old circus horse carts.
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| The Girl Band |
They had a railroad section with old 220 which was called the "Presidents Engine" because it transported a number of presidents.
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| Balance! |
The Ticonderoga was quite the surprise to find in the middle of a field. A side paddle wheeler which was really neat to tour and find out how it all worked.
We found a great kids section that if we had let the kids have at they would have stayed all day.
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| Somewhere Amma and Poppie have a photo of Dashboard Duck in the same chair. |
Having a lighthouse on land isn't that odd but since this one started on a rock in the middle of nowhere it was interesting to find this one. The son of a woman who was born in the lighthouse in 1888 bought the lighthouse when it was decommissioned and brought it to Shelburne.
One of the cool finds was an early hid-a-bed. Since we are tiny living the boys were quick to realize what it was.
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I would have. :-)
It's fun to mess with the kids.
/rc