Day 17

Today we went to Greenfield Village in Michigan. It is a village where they moved houses to it. There are real slave quarters. There are some cabins where some inventors and some famous people lived like the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, and George Washington Carver. He learned how to make things out of peanuts like peanut butter. There was a freed former slave house that had newspaper covering their walls to help cover the cracks between the wood so it wouldn’t be so cold. Thomas Edison was the inventor who made the lightbulb work. We saw his laboratory. He also made the phonograh and we got to see how it worked but we couldn’t really understand what the words said. We went to a glass blower who had to blow the glass into a certain size. The glassblower had these pinchers that he used when the glass was really hot and he made pumpkins, bottles, tree ornament pickles all out of glass. Then we went to a tavern. We ate 19th century food. We ate squash, a croquette, and we ate some noodles that were covered with bread crumbs and had a special sauce.
Good night!
Brendan


The pottery guy made some interesting urns!

The food was quite tasty - and just like food in the 1800s!

Thomas Edison's office - cool!