Yesterday our family spent an interesting afternoon at the Patten Lumberman's Museum. There was a bean-hole dinner held there, so we wanted to take advantage of that, as well as look around the museum.
We went into the main part first, to buy our tickets, then we made a beeline for the food line. We had brought our raincoats with us, and they came in handy! It started to rain as our plates were being filled.
I don't have a picture of the food to show you, but they gave us beans (cooked in a bean hole,) a hot dog, coleslaw, a biscuit, and gingerbread.
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| This is where they were re-heating the beans. The gray things around the fire are the "ovens" where they baked the biscuits. |
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| See the bean pot sticking out of its hole? They're cooking in there! |
After we ate, during which the rain poured and thunder rumbled, we walked around to the other buildings. By this time, the rain had pretty much let up.
One of the first buildings we went into was the blacksmith shop. They had a man shaping metal in there, which was interesting. There used to be a blacksmith shop on our property years ago, so it was intriguing to see what it could have looked like.
This was a reassembled camp, with cooking supplies in the middle, and a place to sleep off to the left.
This was the bunkhouse; in the picture is the lower bunk with lanterns hanging from it.
This would have been the table where the lumberman ate. The next picture shows the table settings, close up.
This was a Model-T Ford; I was hoping to sit in it, but that was nigh impossible, since it was so old.
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| some sort of tractor with a plow |
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| an enormous slingshot |
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| This boat was used during the last log drive in Maine, in the 1970's |
We went into all the other buildings, including one with pressed leaves and an old bearskin coat, but my camera ran out of batteries, so I didn't take any more pictures!😒
Despite the rain, it was a worthwhile adventure...stay tuned for another adventure later this month!
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