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[NutmegCT]

Agricultural Fair at Sturbridge Village this weekend.

Plowing lessons, ox draw competition, threshing, winnowing, etc.

And a *big* display of prize-winning produce from local gardeners.

Produce on display

Pork in the smokehouse, cheese in the buttery, roots going into the cellar, grains and dried food in the corn barn.

All is right with the world.

 

[Brooklands]

Very cool Tom. Good to see that the blue skies there too.

 

[JodyFKerr]

Tom,

That's neat stuff! I still flashback to school field trips when you mention Sturbridge.

Jody

 

[Basil]

" And they're off! <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span> takes the early lead! Into the first turn, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span>, followed closely by <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span>....now going into the back stretch, <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span> inches past <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span> and moves up on <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span>! But wait! In the last turn, on the outside, it's...it's yes, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Step Carefully</span> moving up fast from the rear of the pack as <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span> looses steam. Coming down the home stretch, at the wire, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span>, followed by <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">Step Carefully</span>!

 

[Basil]

Neat stuff (forgive my previously warped sense of humor)

 

[JodyFKerr]

" And they're off! <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span> takes the early lead! Into the first turn, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span>, followed closely by <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span>....now going into the back stretch, <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span> inches past <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span> and moves up on <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span>! But wait! In the last turn, on the outside, it's...it's yes, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Step Carefully</span> moving up fast from the rear of the pack as <span style="font-weight: bold">Lady Plow Share</span> looses steam. Coming down the home stretch, at the wire, it's <span style="font-weight: bold">Beast of Burden</span>, followed by <span style="font-weight: bold">Steaming Cow Pie</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">Step Carefully</span>!

And the winner is........

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Beetlebaum!

 

[Basil]

Ha that was good! Ok, back to our regularly scheduled thread.

 

[aeronca65t]

Nice!

And yes, the weather looks great there....we've been a bit darker and cooler the last few days (but still driving top down!)

We have ~Fosterfields Living History Farm~ very near us (I'll be driving past it in a few hours). I guess it 's similar to what you've got there, but not as big. I've driven past Sturbridge Village a few times, but I'm usually towing a car and don't have the time to stop in. Someday...

 

[NutmegCT]

I've driven past Sturbridge Village a few times, but I'm usually towing a car and don't have the time to stop in. Someday...

Let me know next time you pass by (preferably with a 1948 MG-TC on the trailer), and I'll give you a personal tour. Center village at the common, country side and farm, mills, and all points in between.

Tour of the Village

T.

 

[Brooklands]

A tour with Tom is a wonderful thing too...Peg and I spent Thanksgiving Day at OSV in 2009 getting some behind the scene looks with him, and a wonderful buffet dinner too. And the next day is the open house at his other museum, the New England Air Museum.

 

[AN5Sprite]

I grew up in the "Quiet Corner" of CT and did the yearly school trip to OSV. Good to hear it's still thriving. NutmegCT I wonder if I met you at the Putnam car show 3 years ago...? (I recall talking with the owner of a white TR3 parked on Main street.)