A new feature at Sturbridge Village!
Sturbridge Village goes Caribbean!... a genuine 1830s Puerto Rican New Englander is coming soon to the village. So this past Saturday I began my journey with an informal orientation with Kim Adams, Volunteer Coordinator at the Village. The orientation was a nice prelude to the upcoming training to becoming an interpreter at the village. It was a beautiful cool afternoon and the sun was painting the already painted scenery. Can I say that I just don’t get tired of the horse carriage circling the village center as it creates this thick semi-transparent dust cloud memory I never had? Anyways, back to the sun painting the scenery. I meet Kim at the visitor center and she began with a quick crash course on the village’s genesis. Seems that a golfing trip gone badly lead to Mr. Wells’ obsession with collecting period artifacts. A rainy day meant no golfing for Mr. Wells, so someone had the idea to pass the time antiquing, which resulted in a new hobby for Mr. Wells. As he continue to build his collection, his home began to look like a museum, so before he could say scythe his wife ran with the idea and the village was born.
We’ll get back to history another time! So my orientation meant having a VIP backstage pass to all the cool areas normally restricted by visitors like me (well not anymore). I got to see the employee areas, break rooms, a cool library for employees which btw I already got myself a great book to take home, yes homework.
So this is really cool, I walk into one of the break rooms and got to see young ladies dressed in costume playing Candy Crush and texting what I can only imagine other interpreters, maybe at the Shaker Village. I got to meet other volunteers and interpreters, and already I could feel what we all had in common, a passion for this place.
I decided to stay for a couple of hours after I was done with Kim to take in the village from a different perspective. I reloaded the camera (with a fresh card) and a fresh eye. I wanted to continue to build my image collection for this website and other possible projects related to the village. Note to self, I need a new polarizing filter **stat! but I still managed to take a great shot of the cooper’s shop even though it was screaming for it.
I also realized that I'm getting old and maybe is time to downgrade to lighter photographic equipment. My mission today was to get a few good images so I could upload my new website Mysturbridgevillage.com and have something to write about for my first post on my blog. So I had fun doing some general shooting and wanted to end up with a image that said " you can go home, this is today's money shot ". S0 after a couple hours enjoying myself I came across this pic and I knew I could go home happy!
I love this picture! Blog you soon!!
*Polarizing filter is often placed in front of the camera lens in photography in order to darken skies, manage reflections, or suppress glare from the surface of lakes or the sea. Ok in simple English… the skies look really saturated and awesome and it removes glare too.
