So today was spent at Greenfield Village.. .well at least the part of the day where we weren't stuck in terrible traffic was spent there. It's a testimony to the vast wealth accumulated by Henry Ford and to the awareness that he had.
See Henry realized that his Industrial World would wipe out the rural world and so set about buying as much of the past as he could - in order to preserve it. The result is an extraordinary village and a series of "how rich was he?" oddities that defy logic (the chair that Lincoln was shot in, the car that JFK was shot in, the car that Reagan was shot in, a piece of the Kitty Hawk, Edison's last breathe, Henry Ford's place of birth, slace houses, a Cotswold tearoom and a series of engineering marvels)
It's a good excuse to spend time outside in the sun - and as the horses and the model T Fords whiz by it's easy to forget that you're yards away from the factory that today churns out Trucks by the 100,000.
Worth a visit
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