Sauder Village, OH

July 12th: from Indiana to Ohio.

In Ohio we visited Sauder Village. A recreation (with authentic houses and artifacts) of how life was there maaaany years ago. Amazingly done. Totally worth the visit. One of the things that I liked most, was that all of the workers here were retired fellows that once did what they were demonstrating today and most of them loved what they were doing. It was awesome to see the spark in their eyes when sharing about their occupations.

This guy showed us how wood used to be carved and he carved some things while we were there.

Here, at the basket shop, a lady who was one of the very few employees that one could tell wasn't into it, showed us how she used to braid different kinds of baskets for different kinds of uses. Pretty interesting.

The barber shop. This guy, a real barber (retired) told us amazing stories about being a barber many years ago. In his shop, here, all was real. No reproductions.

Take a look at the chair!

He explained that once, the barber was more than a barber. They would also do dental work like extractions (there weren't enough dentists in an accessible radio, so dentists taught barbers how to extract teeth).
Here are his extraction tools.

This was his original register from his shop.

His curling iron, which would be heated by placing it inside of a very old lamp (similar to an oil lamp).

Then we went into this shop, where this guy, who totally ignored us (remember this in an interactive museum where these guys are supposed to talk to you and explain you how things once worked), was working on tin.

We then visited an old train station and the kids "talked on the phone",

and communicated in Morse code.

Up next was the doctor's office. Filled with real very old stuff,

some of it, very creepy...

After that, we attended school, with a real teacher who told us how things used to be back then...

In this kind of container/bucket, kids would bring their snacks to school.

And this is how they dipped their plume to be able to write...

After class, we visited the print shop,

where the kids printed a card.

Our next stop was watching this artist make some glass art.

Then, - yes, we are still at Sauder Village - we entered this lady's home, where she explained us how people used to live.

including how french fries were cut :)

Right after, we went to the other side of Sauder Village, where we learned how the native Americans used to live.

This is a "two bedroom house", fit for two native american families. One on each side of the "divider" (wood barres that separate us from the camera man :) )