Old time fun
Finally having a weekend of nice weather, Meg and I decided to check out Old Bethpage Restoration Village which is out on Long Island. Bethpage Village isn’t exactly a recreation of any one specific village, but rather a set of buildings that represents what a typical 1850’s (or so) village was like here in the New England area.
The location it self is really nice, big green fields with trees and all manner of plants and gardens. All of the buildings are original period buildings that were dissembled and moved from their original locations and re-assembled out on Long Island. Each building has rooms done up with period furniture and other decorations, and has a guide (also in period costume) to tell you about the houses and a little about the people who lived there. Both Meg and I found the school house and blacksmith shop the most interesting, and got to hang out for a while and watch the blacksmith work on making a pair of special tongs from a solid bar of metal. He explained to us that by the time his shop was set in, in the 1870’s, the blacksmiths were really more about repair and specialty work, and that people were getting a majority of their metal items (nails, horseshoes, ect.) from factories.
Thanks to my friend Connie who had recommended the place to us, we brought a picnic lunch with us and got to have a nice quiet lunch outside at one of the picnic tables under some nice shady trees. Apparently they also do civil war battle re-enactments from time to time which could be fun to check out some day too.
Rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. With the usual chores of shopping and laundry and what not. It was back to work for me today, though in principle it’s a short week with Friday off for the 4th of July holiday. No idea what we are doing this weekend yet, I have a few ideas I am looking at but nothing concrete as of yet.
On a totally unrelated note we found where we are going to do our wedding reception lunch and have the date reserved, Meg just has to call them tomorrow to put down the room payment. Now I can finally get the invitations made up (going to go with moo.com postcards of some form or another I think) and sent out. I just need to get some Simpsons stamps to put on them!
