One of the things I was looking forward to while on the East Coast are the Fall Festivals that happen at this time of year. Today was another beautiful sunny, Fall day, and since there were no guests at our Zigler Hall, we went to a United Methodist Church in Westminister this morning, and to a Farm Museum Fall Festival afterwards.
Westminster is another old town, dating back to 1700s. It's only 7 miles away, and it is where people from New Windsor go shopping, etc. (New Windsor, where we are living, is very small. It has a couple of churches, a 7/11 but no other market, a post office, a pizza place, a restaurant, an automotive place, a fire station, elementary and high school... and the New Brethren ministries, which is the biggest "industry" in town. That's about it!)
The Farm Museum had lots of activities for children and adults, including a corn cannon, corn chucking and grinder, pumpkin activities, antique farm equipment and displays, cornhusk doll making, haywagon or buggy rides, a blacksmith demonstration, make your own life-size scarecrow -- looked funny seeing people carrying around a scarecrow as big as they were! We also went through a home that used to be an "almshouse," a home where the poor could live and earn their keep by working on the farm. It was decorated as though it was a traditional home of that time, though, with a chidrens' bedroom, dining room with fine china, etc. Lots of interesting things at this place. Nice day.
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