All I can say is WOW, and thank you for sharing those pictures with us.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LAUS DEO, Where ever I go, there I am. ..... major at nwi dot net ..... Zone 6a, Eastern Washington, sagebrush high desert, Columbia plateau.
Posts: 2510 | Location: Eastern Washington State, zone 6a. | Registered: December 13, 2004
How much do they charge for admission? I have been looking for a good field trip for my currently home-schooled daughter. I believe the village is somewhere within a day trip from here.
Abigail, 8 kids grown, 1 ripening and 8 grandkids- what a harvest!
Posts: 620 | Location: Far Rockaway, New York | Registered: July 17, 2002
I have extremely fond memories of visiting Old Sturbridge Village as a child on family vacations. I can only hope & pray that it's kept it's charm & hasn't over-commercialized for the current tourist mindset.
I was SO VERY lucky to be brought up by parents who instilled in us the wonders of places like Sturbridge, along with all sorts of similar places, museums, etc., during summer vacation.
It's such a shame that so many of today's youth seem to take such a dim view &/or disinterest of anything that doesn't involve video games, tv, or cell phones. They won't realize until they're much older how much they missed out on.
Posts: 721 | Location: Culpeper, VA - Zone 6/7 | Registered: June 18, 2008
hasn't over-commercialized for the current tourist mindset.
No, not really.
But they made some changes to the walkways so if you use the main exit, you have to leave through the gift shop instead of just walking around the building like you used to be able to do. And if you want to return with in 10 days, you have to have your ticket validated in the gift shop now instead of at the ticket counter.
The vast majority of the plant varities they grow are pre-1840.
A few cases they've been forced to make exceptions, such as the potatoes...since the varieties from back in 1840 are susectible to Late Blight (cause of Irish potatoe famine) and that blight remains endimec in the North America. So the potatoes are an old but post-1840 blight resistant variety (Green Mountain, per the interpreter.)
