Going to a slide show tonight and next Tuesday on old Salem. it should be very interesting. How many like old local history?

You should be able to see some very cool pictures of the areas ,,, I like seeing how our folks lived, it is pretty neat to see how things have changed.

Has anyone ever been to the Ford Museum in Dearborn area of Michigan, it is so cool the old stuff in there    

--Last edited by Thure on 2008-05-06 09:11:36 --

Oh Thure - you're talking my language!!!  We've been to the Ford Museum twice and I'd still like to go back.  I'm sure they've added new stuff since we've been there but if not I'd still enjoy it.  You always notice something you didn't notice before.

Calling all history buffs, Calling all history buffs :
Time to bring up I won't be at the re-union HOWEVER there is a however: I will be a participant at the Ft Ticonderoga 250th Anniversary Reenactment of the "Namby-crombie's Defeat. Tis a biggie as F&I events go - this one is even drawing a few fellow Texan's and all of us in period dress no less.

Last weekend in June is when its being held so if any of y'all are in the area and can spare the gas money, drop by.

I will spend some time roaming the roads of Cambridge so maybe there is a place for a fair cup of coffee to meet "the lost locals" and refresh views of faces I haven't seen in 40 or so years - suggestions? (Havn't set my in-Cambridge days yet but I have to juggle that with dropping by my daughter at Dover AFB on the way to Ft Ti / Cambridge or on the way back to Good Old Garland.)  

Betty, I remember telling a guy I went with when I was up there, that that is what my litchen looked like and the stuff in our living room was also there but everything dated back into the late 1800's here I thought we had modern stuff growing up ,,,,lol

OK, Cambridge history buffs. Somewhere I once read that Main Street in Cambridge (in the area of Asgrow) used to flood so badly that someone finally stepped in and had fill brought to that area.The flooding would literally cut off East Main from the West Main area. Could that person who stepped to the plate had been Jerome Rice from Rice Seed Co? Whoever it was, they certainly did the Town a huge favor.

thure and Betty
we went there last year. Scott's father took us to Ford Museum and some other neat park and museum out there.

Seeing how trucks and cars were build was so cool even for me.

Dodi

We had some pretty old furniture ourselves, Thure.  I particularly remember the kerosine pot burners - one in the kitchen and one in the living room.  And out in the back room was a three burner kerosine cookstove that my mother did her canning on.  And also, until she had her stroke at age 75, she was still using a wringer washer; she even bought a new one.  "Automatic washers don't get clothes clean."

And Dodi - glad you got to the museum and enjoyed it.  You guys are making me want to go again.

Abner and Sally how was that show  of the old areas , did you go ,,,I would bet it would been neat to have gone ?

Thure, Carol Meyers and I went to see the slide show two different nights. the first night they forgot the projector then second night was fun. Saw things in Salem that I never knew were there. There was two jails, one stood on main street near the empty store. the other was where the present one is now. I saw a house i never knew was there. Yes it was fun I love local history.    

--Last edited by abner on 2008-05-24 12:12:38 --