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Thanks, @CODawn!
So much fun, @Saffity!
The festival was at the Genesee Country Village & Museum. It's massive and so much is interactive. I learned so much. This is the map:
I walked it like a madwoman, only realizing in the last hour that I could have followed the numbers as a guide.
All of the buildings were moved to the museum at various points and some are even now going through renovations. The blacksmith was explaining that his building was literal rubble since it's made from limestone mortar. It took an engineer from Germany to put it back together!
The printing press was the first of the kind that could be taken apart, which was important as they weighed a literal ton!
(It also took half a ton of pressure to use. Thankfully, they had springs to help!)
The barn has turkeys, chickens, geese, and sheep. (There may be oxen, but I didn't see any, sadly.) The chickens run around the farmer's house that once held 10 people! Approximately 10x12 ft, with an attic.
Of all the houses, the coolest is the Hyde House. It's octagonal! The math behind it gives 20% more internal space for the same amount of external cost. That was so important because they were only charged on external cost! Plus, the octagonal build allowed all rooms to connect and had a spiral staircase that ended in a cupola. It was apparently the start of a fad!
The clan village was in the Center Village, which was much quieter and saw much less foot traffic. We were on the corner of Plank and Liberty. The Highland Games were in the Great Meadow, just about exactly were the map shows "Entrance to the Historic Village". Vendors were all along that curve, from the Barns to the Whistle Stop.
Various pictures include: various buildings down roads, Animals!, a garden*, and the clan tent (with a bonus half of Mom and Dad!).
*38. Livingston-Backus House & Gardens
So much fun, @Saffity!
The festival was at the Genesee Country Village & Museum. It's massive and so much is interactive. I learned so much. This is the map:
I walked it like a madwoman, only realizing in the last hour that I could have followed the numbers as a guide.
All of the buildings were moved to the museum at various points and some are even now going through renovations. The blacksmith was explaining that his building was literal rubble since it's made from limestone mortar. It took an engineer from Germany to put it back together!
The printing press was the first of the kind that could be taken apart, which was important as they weighed a literal ton!
(It also took half a ton of pressure to use. Thankfully, they had springs to help!)The barn has turkeys, chickens, geese, and sheep. (There may be oxen, but I didn't see any, sadly.) The chickens run around the farmer's house that once held 10 people! Approximately 10x12 ft, with an attic.
Of all the houses, the coolest is the Hyde House. It's octagonal! The math behind it gives 20% more internal space for the same amount of external cost. That was so important because they were only charged on external cost! Plus, the octagonal build allowed all rooms to connect and had a spiral staircase that ended in a cupola. It was apparently the start of a fad!
The clan village was in the Center Village, which was much quieter and saw much less foot traffic. We were on the corner of Plank and Liberty. The Highland Games were in the Great Meadow, just about exactly were the map shows "Entrance to the Historic Village". Vendors were all along that curve, from the Barns to the Whistle Stop.
Various pictures include: various buildings down roads, Animals!, a garden*, and the clan tent (with a bonus half of Mom and Dad!).
*38. Livingston-Backus House & Gardens
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