The Boston Sr. Missionaries had their Senior Training at the Old Sturbridge Village
and we kind enough to invite us along once again!
Guess Who
????
Elder and Sister Excell
Sister Ashton and Sister Excell outside the
"Friends Meetinghouse"
The Friends Meetinghouse is a meetinghouse of the Religious Society of Friends,
Also known as Quakers
The Fiddler along the pathway - He played while they would
try to get visitors to dance along
Some of the missionaries getting with it!
Stage Coach
Nineteenth-century New Englanders called this building a meetinghouse. This one was build in Sturbridge in 1832 and moved to the museum in 1947. Buildings like this were used every Sunday for worship by members of the local Congregational church. There were morning and afternoon services, each over two hours long. Christmas and Easter services were very rare, but there was always a special Thanksgiving morning service. Periodically the community would meet here to hold town meetings. They would also hold concerts, public meetings, lectures, and Independence Day celebrations.
Inside the meetinghouse
This is what they called Town Pound. If your livestock got out they would be
put in the pound and you would have to pay to get them out.
This was posted inside the Shoe shop. An historic
ten footer, which was a
small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in
New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. I didn't get a picture of the tools - ect.
Display of shoes - they didn't look to comfortable!
There were several different houses to walk through - that would have
furniture of the day in them
They had the fire going - think that would have been really hot to
work around in the summer time.
She is getting ready to start dying some yarn
The colors for the dye usually game from different plants
Demonstration of shooting the musket
It makes you jump because it is so loud - even though you know
what it sounds like! When it shoots fire comes out the top.
Now the Grist Mill
One of the stones that would have been used at the Grist Mill
Inside the Mill
Then the saw mill - they say this is still working, but
wasn't while we were there.
Outside the mill
Logs on the platform ready to go into the mill
And . . . . . the saw!
Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a
living museum located in
Sturbridge,
Massachusetts, in the United States, which re-creates life in rural
New England during the 1790s through 1830s (the
Romantic Period). It is the largest living museum in New England, covering more than 200 acres OSV has a large staff of historians in costume, 59 historic buildings on 200 acres, three authentic water-powered mills and two covered bridges. Visitors can ride in a stagecoach, view antiques, heirloom gardens, meet the farm animals, and take part in hands-on crafts year-round.
Sister Chatfield
Sister Wilson
Elder Langford
Elder Canfield
Elder Marr
Elder McMullin
June 26, 2010 (Elder and Sister Ashton's 41st Anniversary) Ana was baptised! What a great anniversary gift. The baptism was mostly in Spanish - so Elder Canfield sat by us to translate - I did manage to sing a few words in Spanish. (It is alot easier when you can look at the words and someone is pronouncing them clearly right by you!) 
Elder and Sister Excell
Sister Ashton and Sister Excell outside the
The Fiddler along the pathway - He played while they would
Some of the missionaries getting with it!
Stage Coach
Nineteenth-century New Englanders called this building a meetinghouse. This one was build in Sturbridge in 1832 and moved to the museum in 1947. Buildings like this were used every Sunday for worship by members of the local Congregational church. There were morning and afternoon services, each over two hours long. Christmas and Easter services were very rare, but there was always a special Thanksgiving morning service. Periodically the community would meet here to hold town meetings. They would also hold concerts, public meetings, lectures, and Independence Day celebrations.
Inside the meetinghouse
This is what they called Town Pound. If your livestock got out they would be
Display of shoes - they didn't look to comfortable!
There were several different houses to walk through - that would have 
They had the fire going - think that would have been really hot to
She is getting ready to start dying some yarn
The colors for the dye usually game from different plants
Demonstration of shooting the musket
It makes you jump because it is so loud - even though you know
Now the Grist Mill
One of the stones that would have been used at the Grist Mill
Inside the Mill
Outside the mill
Logs on the platform ready to go into the mill
And . . . . . the saw! 
Ana (the Sisters are teaching her), graduated this year and is getting ready to go to college in the fall. She drew us this picture to hang with the rest of the Grandchildren's pictures. 
Ana, Sister Chatfield, Sister Wilson, Elder Canfield and Elder McMullin
Elder McMullin, Elder Canfield and Elder Ashton
We took the missionaries to dinner for Elder Canfield's birthday. 
We made it to Royalton - which is not far from Sharon and is where the Vermont Law School is.
Eaton's Restaurant in Royalton. Good food, good company!
Missionary couples.
Sign where you turn to go to the monument.
Statue inside the visitors' center.
In memory of this great prophet, a granite monument was dedicated on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The shaft was sculpted from a single granite block quarried in Barre, Vermont, and is one of the largest polished shafts in the world. It stands 38 1/2 feet tall, one foot for every year of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life. The shaft weighs 40 tons. 
The grounds.
Thought that maybe you would be able to read the plague - but looks a little hard to read. It says the following:
This would have been what the original home would have looked like.
