A very nice buffet breakfast made up for a short night’s sleep and we were soon back in the shuttle on our way the Ford Museum. The driver very kindly turned onto a road from which we could see the outer part of Greenfield Village, closed in winter, along a distance of a half mile before dropping us off.

Bill & Jean stand below a Wright bros. replica.

Dean & Kerry in a modern kitchen.

The Ford Museum covers over an acre. There are two main themes: air transportation and ground transportation. There are many films (get up to fifteen minutes rest at one of these). The automobile exhibits surely had the car that we all had or craved as teenagers in addition to land speed record holders and racing machines featuring the Ford GT (Le Mans, 2016), the recreation of the Ford GT40 (Le Mans, 1966). The aircraft displays start with early flight (full size exhibits), show barnstorming events on film and end with the Ford Trimotor and DC3 planes. Minor themes include locomotives (Charles Kuralt’s On The Road RV is parked back here in a corner), presidential limousines, a hundred-year-old working power plant and a small field of agricultural equipment. And there are domestic exhibits scattered among tools in bewildering order. A new exhibit is Women in Mathematics as the museum seeks to appeal to a larger audience as does a display of seven thousand tree ornaments.

The Allegheny class locomotives were among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built. They mostly hauled coal freight in trains that were 1.25 miles long.

The Montgomery bus that boycotted by Rosa Parks in 1955.

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