The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village

The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village cover 96 acres so we were up and ready early. We had purchased discounted tickets from the campground which were still $30 each. We jumped in the truck, Gene turned the key.........and nothing happened. We just looked at each other. I was thinking, well do we just flush $60 or do we stay another night? When Gene opened the hood, Carol, sitting just right there in her RV, asked what the problem was. In a flash, Bill was out there with a battery booster he used in his work and they had it going. Still, we had to deal with the problem. Oh, no, they said, take it with you, go enjoy the museum and deal with the problem after that.WOW! Sometimes this close quarters stuff can pay off.
   We arrived just 30 minutes later than we intended to and did the Greenfield first since it is outdoors, while it was cooler. This museum does not honor Henry Ford, he built it and opened it in 1929. The Village is a collection of mostly authentic buildings he collected and had moved to the site. When not possible they are replicas. In other words, the millinery shop really belonged to a lady whose story is told by the docent inside. There is a steam powered railroad that runs around the perimeter, many horse drawn wagons, and vintage buses. Also people strolling around in 1800's garb, playing croquet on the lawn and such. Got a real cool vibe to it.

Two things we really wanted to see were the Wright Brothers Cycle Shop ( authentic) and Edison's Menlo Park laboratories (replica). Ford brought all he could from Menlo Park but it was in ruins, he even had rail car loads of New Jersey dirt shipped to the site.On the 50th anniversary of the light bulb, he invited Edison there and asked him how he had done. Edison said he got it 99.9%. Ford wanted to know what he did wrong and Edison replied that it had not been so clean.
We did not know that Ford had also experimented with soybeans but there was also a lab for that. Ford had car bodies made from soybeans and even a suit of clothes.
There was a whole lot to see, but we skipped whole sections to have time to see the museum. There was a lot more in there on the evolution of the automobile, including campers. One camper had been a gift from Ford to the Lindbergh's. Also a section on aviation and a DC-3 (hanging from the ceiling). Another on the evolution of power that Gene loved. We skipped furniture and evolution of houses as we have seen enough of that and we lived some of it. 
As we wearily made our way to the car, Gene reminded me that we still had to boost the battery. There was a man sitting in a van facing us two spaces over and one closer than our truck. As we passed he asked if we had jumper cables. We died laughing. Gene said, "I was just about to ask you the same thing." Luckily, ours started without a jump and Gene then jumped the other man with the booster.
It would have been a fairly early evening had we not had to go to four places before we finally got the battery. But we finally did get one. When we got back, Gene gave Bill some lightered wood (fat wood) as a thank you. Bill had never heard of it. Later, Bill came to our door with his contact info and wanted us to be sure and let him know how we were progressing since we had already had two "events."