Yesterday at the Frontier Culture Museum...
Monday Sep 22, 2008
As part of my wife's startup that she and a buddy are working on, they will provide cool day trip ideas for folks all over the US. As they are getting close to a working beta, less than a month away, we decided to try out a recommendation for a 1 hour get away and some fun stuff to do.
We took the kids and "our third kid" (a friend of my little one) to the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, VA. It was really interesting. Basically, it is Old World farms and then farmsteads in the US in 1820 and 1850 with period costumes and dress that answered questions. They had 1580 England, 1700 Irish, 1740 German and are building a Nigerian farm as well. I thought it was great, being the closet farmer that I am and the kids had a blast as well.
Cathy also realized that Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro was having one of three open houses all year and it was yesterday while we were in the Shen. Valley anyway. Got to love that soon to be available day planning tool. The Wildlife Center is a non profit group that treats wildlife that needs help. They get tons of baby squirrels, baby rabbits, birds of prey and the occasional bear, bobcat and deer. What a great place and people that are helping the world. We took a 90 minute tour and saw numerous birds of prey that they use for elementary school programs. No bear or bobcats in residence, which is a good thing. We almost were talking into driving 2 hours out of our way to return an opossum to the wild near Lexington, Va but we had the friend and it would have made us fairly late getting home on a school night.
I think over the next month, I'll be taking them my 72G former saltwater fishtank for their use as it is a great dust collector in my basement.
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