Old houses

When tillage begins, other arts follows. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." Daniel Webster


Home of the famous Firestone tires founder.
Giving farm life a go.....
This is a "tire' of a steam powered tractor. Very cool.

This historical home was a real working farm. The employees ran it like it would have been run a hundred years ago. Here the woman is washing clothes in the basement area of the house.

This woman is making biscuits. The weird look on the lady's face is because I was about to lean on the hot cast iron stove....Woops.

I grew up at Greenfield village. I can't even remember when I went for the first time. As school kids we went to Greenfield village and had school at old school houses. As a family we went there for Halloween where they had all the walkways lines with real lit pumpkins and brown paper bags. It was lovely. We trick-or-treated at Henry Ford's childhood home and the at the storefront of Wilber Wright. Pretty cool, in retrospect. At the time I thought they were just "old houses" just like Ella and Payton. Hopefully one day Ella will respect that she once played inside the home of a tire tycoon and danced in the dust of a plantation slave home......