#old Sturbridge Village

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Went for a walk at Old Sturbridge Village today.

[timmurleyart]

What awaits in the corn maze.🌽💀🍁🍂🌿🎃

[wensdaiambrose]

Yesterday we went to Old Sturbridge Villiage where it is always the 1830's and had a blast walking around the property and checking out the various houses and other buildings.

[shamballalin]

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[markashtonlund]

The Seaport

Mystic Seaport Museum Two weeks ago, I traveled to Mystic, CT to visit the Mystic Seaport Museum. This was my second visit to the largest maritime museum in the United States which is also home to the last wooden whaleship—the Charles W. Morgan.  As Old Sturbridge Village accomplishes so well with its recreation of life in New England in the early 1800s, the Mystic Seaport Museum recreates a…

[navvigating]

i want to become a blacksmith how do i become ye olden blacksmith in modern day

[lost-boy-into-the-upper-heavenly]

Fall theme 🍁🍂 Old Sturbridge Village

[transgenderer]

Deb Friedman, a culinary historian at Old Sturbridge Village, the central Massachusetts living history museum, describes rye and corn as “family foods,” like hamburger today

[waybackwanderer]

OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE Jul 1997 Archived Web Page 🧩 🔊

[racefortheironthrone]

Did you see a lot of American Revolution reenactments back in Massachusetts? Also do Massachusites? Massachusettsans? care about if State of Massachusetts is used instead of Commonwealth of Massachusetts?

I definitely did a school trip at least once to see the re-enactment of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which takes place on Patriots' Day every April. I also did a school trip to the Bunker Hill Monument, but I don't remember if we were there for the re-enactment (which I think happens a bit too late in the calendar for the school year) or just for the museum.

While it's not a Revolutionary War battle, I did go to Old Sturbridge Village a bunch with my family, partly for the living museum and partly because the food there is really good.

In my experience, Massachusettsans (or "Massholes") use the term "Commonwealth" and "State" interchangeably and don't really care which one you use. Commonwealth tends to be used in more formal settings, but one of the official state songs is titled "the Great State of Massachusetts," so it's not really a big deal.

[pollywiltse]

I'm not saying that I'm looking at the books in the Old Sturbridge Village online store about New England portraits from 1790-1850 and going "Benjamin Tallmadge had his portrait painted then" or about country stores in early New England and going "Benjamin Tallmadge had a store in New England", but that is exactly what I'm doing. Beer in America: The Early Years - "Tallmadge drank beer!" Ok, I'm not that quite far gone.

I am, in fact, really interested in the portraits one, because it looks like they're using the portraits to study the rise of the middle class in early America, and between Tallmadge and André, who were both part of this Anglo-American merchant middle class at different points in time (even though André super didn't want to be), and the dumbfuck at work who I think really didn't understand how far we were into the Industrial Revolution in 1818, and the part where there was evidently a fairly large market for cheap souvenirs by the last half of the 18th century, I'm starting to get interested in this stuff.

Also, I liked the post-Revolution parts of the Hall bio where Tallmadge spent all his time being a Congressman and running seven different businesses at once a lot more than the Revolution bits. (And getting his wife pregnant, but evidently it was inappropriate to mention that in the 1940s.)

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Afternoon walk around Old Sturbridge Village today. Highlight today was the ~200 year old mittens, plus a sheep really determined to get more acorns.

[batmanschmatman]

Hello!! 1, 4, 10, 18, and 22 for the End of the Year ask game please 😊

ONE Song of the Year: My Spotify Wrapped claims for me it was the Placebo cover of Running Up That Hill, which is admittedly on almost every single one of my playlists, but I think it was actually Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron, because I listened to it a billion times while writing my NaNo project.

FOUR Movie of the Year: The Boy and the Heron, both because it was great and also it was the only good theater experience I had all year that wasn't a rerelease like Titanic and The Lion King lol, people at our home theater are very poorly behaved. ;;

TEN Something that Made You Cry This Year: LOL WELL I lost my job a couple weeks ago and that has been some VERY MIXED EMOTIONS including a lot of hysterical crying. It was an extremely toxic work place I was trying to get out of anyway (museum board full of old white men who hated me, boss is/was an alcoholic mean girl - no exaggeration, has driven home drunk from work lunches with her kid in the car and been blackout throwing up in her office after work events - who had a toady work bff who also hated me, no health insurance, making $26/hr despite having an MA and living somewhere where rents start at $2,000 a month) but my boss basically reamed me out right before Thanksgiving telling me I was the worst person ever, had a bunch of provably false claims about how bad an employee I was (never meeting deadlines, making other people do my work for me, never attending events or suggesting ideas for programs, all bullshit I had ample evidence to refute) and told me I could either quit now and be paid through February or be on like mega probation indefinitely, so I came back from the holiday like alright I quit, they're like cool actually this is a budgetary thing and not at all personal, we're SO SORRY this didn't work out also we can only afford to pay you through mid January, so now I'm unemployed applying to a million jobs and scared about money but also I'm free??? So there's been a lot of on and off weeping/grieving and it's kinda ruined the holidays for me lol. But also hopefully it'll pivot to a much better paying and stable job somewhere closer to home, so fingers crossed.

Don't get into the museum field, folks, it sucks here.

EIGHTEEN A Memorable Meal This Year: For Valentine's Day, @heystovepipeboys and I made a bunch of recipes from Last Dinner on the Titanic, which was SUPER FUN. I love historic cooking/baking and have had the cookbook forever, but had never made anything from it before and everything was INCREDIBLE. We made cream of barley soup, chicken Lyonnaise, chateau potatoes and asparagus, and then got eclairs from a bakery near us and the Harney & Sons Titanic tea blend, which is supposed to be similar to the special blend they served on the ship. We listened to period music the whole time we cooked and then we went to see Titanic in theaters for its anniversary rerelease.

TWENTY TWO Favorite Place You Visited This Year: hmmm very tough call. My parents very generously took the fam on a Disney cruise to Alaska this summer which was a childhood dream of mine, and wifey and I had an awesome trip to Old Sturbridge Village in MA for their Halloween event, which was probably the best Halloween themed thing I've ever done. They set up the museum with a bunch of themed performances by a bunch of traveling circus performers who are Definitely Not Vampires and everything was really spooky and fun. Would super recommend if anyone is looking for fun Halloween things to do in New England next year.

Thank you for the ask!! Hope you are enjoying a relaxing end to this weird year.

[shamballalin]

MYSTERY OF THE STURBRIDGE KEYS ~ CHRISTMAS UNLOCKED ~ Brie is a Thirteen-Year-Old Protagonist at a Time When the World Needs a Young Strong Female Role Model

http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-001108064/Mystery-of-the-Sturbridge-Keys.aspx Brie is the thirteen-year-old protagonist of this historical fiction, time-travel novel, at a time when a young, strong, female character is so needed in the world. She deals with individuality and relationships, and comes to realize there is only one race, the human race. She time travels to the birth of…

[hislittleraincloud]

Good writing involves a lot of math.

Goody writing, in particular.

I decided that I needed to go back to pencil and paper for my bigger world map. Yes, it's for After the Burn, but it's still important to lay down lines before trying to color them in, and since the background is pretty important to what I'm trying to write now, I've got to actually make maps.

I was never a history major (probably one of the only humanities that I didn't major or minor in in college), but I've always been a history buff/nerd. My bigger areas of interest were the American Civil War and WW2, but in the broader sense I love the world during the English Elizabethan Era and the Italian Renaissance. Pretty standard stuff, though my father had several books about the Vietnam War since he was a medic (an area I was meh on until I chose it for my final project in International Relations).

However, I grew up in the #1 state for education (not fucking Florida, that's all serious bullshit), so I was subjected to a lot of thick stuff when very young, particularly everything about the settling of America by the British (I learned about the Boston Massacre when I was in the 2nd Grade...because I lived near Boston 💩). We even had a frickin place like Pilgrim World that we took field trips to (Old Sturbridge Village, though it was more like the field trip they took in the movie Billy Madison 😂). By the time I did get to high school, American Revolutionary history just didn't interest me...I was over it.

But of course, life is one giant circle of Hell of its own, so I find myself going back to that period of time so that I can craft a story that doesn't sound like I'm winging it. I don't mind it though, because it's been a while and it's for a good cause. Four hundred years+ of world building is a good cause.

If you think that what I'm doing with Wenovan is fkd up....

[oonajaeadira]

Went to Old Sturbridge Village, and it was decided you needed these photos!

...for reasons

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LOOKIT HOW SLEEPY!!!

Thank you. I love the sheeps.