Neal Family Vacation, Boston Day 4 (Thrusday)

Thursday there were many celebrations and parades to mark the Celtics winning the NBA championships, so we decided to leave town for the day.

We drove out to Old Sturbridge Village. This is a small village that is set in the time 1790 - 1840. the "Interpreters" are all in costume and character. They will come out of character a little to explain things sometimes, like to them the "cars" means the Steam Locomotive (train). It is a functioning village with all old authentic buildings and about everything needed to run a village in 1790. Many of the building have been acquired and moved to the village, some of them are original to the village location. There is a Saw mill, grist mill, and carding mill all run by the small damed pond there in the village. They use these to make the boards to repair the village and make new buildings if required, grind up the feed for the animals and make flour for their own bread and to "card" the wool for spinning into thread to make cloth and clothes. Everything is made in the village. Ethan and Corinne even caught a fish in the pond. Unfortunately we forgot to get Ethan in the picture, but he baited the line and cast it out, then Corinne pulled the fish out as Ethan had placed the hook just right with his "cast."