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Artisans in period costume showed patrons how things were made by ordinary people a century and a half ago.
It's a fantastic place to bring kids, where history walks and talks and shaves wood right in front of them.
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Doug Shaw, who makes hayforks, rakes, scoops, ladles, and shovels, carved spoons at his shaving horse.
And Claire Garman, the on-site cabinetmaker, chatted with me in the woodworking shop.
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As a young boy, Claire remembers visiting the Landis brothers on their farm and in the very woodworking shop where Claire volunteers toda
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The Landis brothers were inventive, resourceful, and lifelong bachelors. And in 1925, they invited the public into their lives by turning their homestead into a museum.
During the two-day
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I can hardly wait until next year.