I love to experience history by visiting villages where reenactments take place. Terry and I spent about six hours at Crossroads Village near Flint, Michigan on June 13. No, I didn’t get to ride in the stagecoach but did ride the Huckleberry Railroad. It was fun to see the engine as it rounded the curve. We even got to see Abraham Lincoln make a campaign speech from the caboose and later walked the boardwalks to chat with him and his lady in their tent.
The sounds of village life were great with steam whistles from the trains, the Genesee Belle Paddleboat and sawmills, music from the fiddler and the carousel and the sounds of cows and sheep. We smelled the apples as they were pressed in the Master’s Cider Mill, and the delicious cookies and bread that the sheriff’s wife made. I know they were delicious because we got to sample them too.
The sounds of village life were great with steam whistles from the trains, the Genesee Belle Paddleboat and sawmills, music from the fiddler and the carousel and the sounds of cows and sheep. We smelled the apples as they were pressed in the Master’s Cider Mill, and the delicious cookies and bread that the sheriff’s wife made. I know they were delicious because we got to sample them too.
2 comments:
Darlene, you and Terry are just out there having fun this year. Good for you! That's a cute picture of you in the window of the stagecoach!
hope you all enjoyed your short stay with us. please come back again, try for Christmas it's so lovely during that time with the train lit up as the longest mobile decoration in the state, the village lit up with almost a million lights.
again thanks for visiting.
Handsome Harry the train conductor
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