Greenfield Village is a living history museum that is a part of the Henry Ford Museum. It contains over one hundred historic buildings that have been moved to the property and reassembled. There are craft buildings where visitors can pull glass and run metal lathes. I enjoyed making a brass candlestick on a lathe. I also enjoyed touring Thomas Edison's Menlo Park lab. This is where he perfected the incandescent bulb. It was fun to listen to an actor portraying Edison talk about his inventions. When Mr. Ford had the lab rebuilt, Mr. Edison actually visited to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent bulb. The chair he sat in is still in the building! As Mr. Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." I also got to visit the reassembled Wright Brothers Bicycle Shop, and I heard two actors portray the brothers and talk about their first flights. So cool! This type of museum is fun because I was able to live history through riding a carousel, playing lawn games, eating food based on historic recipes, and walk through homes and shops people would have once used. My absolutely favorite part was getting to ride around the village in two different Model T Fords. One was a classic from 1914 and the other was a Woody from 1923 that had been used as a cab to carry passengers and luggage from the train to hotels. We spent the whole day at the village and had such a great time and learned some amazing living history.
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