With a home school group we went to The Saugus Iron Works. It was the first Iron Works in North America. There were lots of mills and machinery, so Lennon ate it all up.
Mia, Ella and Diva being sworn in as honorary park rangers.
Inside the blacksmith's shop where he would have made all the tools and nails they needed for working on the factory. We learned that the size of nails today are still named by the price they would have been sold for hundreds of years ago.
Wrohohohoh...Machines!
These were definitely the largest bellows we have seen anywhere. They were used to get the fire going and to maintain a fire that was something like 3000 degrees almost all day every day with only one short break each day to change shifts.
When Granmommy was in town we went to The Boston Children's Museum. They had a special Wizard of Oz exhibit on, so we went to check it out.
Before going in though, we went to this outdoor food festival that occurs once a year. We have just happened upon it twice now. It is a ton of local restaurants who come out, set up booths outside the museum and give away free food. Hello Lunch! Here, Mia and Mateus are enjoying some canolis. Yummy!
You probably didn't notice, but we have just come from that field trip to Belle Isle Salt Marsh, and I will tell you, Vickie and I worked hard and used up an entire package of HandiWipes cleaning off Mia's boots and legs to be presentable to the public. That was some of the blackest dirt either of us had ever seen.
My little man, hard at work.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Checking out the turtles from below.
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