A Trip to The Henry Ford

A couple of weeks ago, Vince's parents came through town for the beginning of a train trip to California. The plan was to spend a couple of days in Detroit before jumping a train to Chicago and then from there to California and back. On the Monday they were here, we all went to The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn. The museum was really great. There was a display on rock stars' cars and guitars, lots of historical displays - including some toys from our childhood...

...and, of course, cars.

One of the displays talked about the struggle for liberty in this country and included the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot and the bus that Rosa Parks was riding when she refused to give up her seat.

Greenfield Village is a historical little town that Henry Ford began in the early 1900s as a place to save buildings slated for destruction. It began as a way to save his own childhood home, and now includes buildings from all over the world. We saw a house that Frost had lived in in Ann Arbor and some of the buildings that Edison had done his work in among others.

Unfortunately they had to cut the trip short when Granddaddy went into the hospital for a couple of days with chest pain. They were able to reschedule their trip and will be swinging back through here in a few weeks.