As mentioned in a previous post, I recently got a job as a tour guide at Heritage Farm Museum and Village, a locally owned museum and bed and breakfast. While that may sound a bit strange, it actually works out quite well.
The owner's, Mr. and Mrs. Perry opened the museum fourteen years ago in an old dairy barn on their property. About twelve years ago, Mr. Perry began buying old log structures around the area, moving to the farm and eventually built the farm into what it is today, with 17 buildings detailing life in Appalachia from about 1800 to the present.
Most of the building house the museum itself, but five building have been turned into inns: Applebutter Inn, Hollyberry Inn, Woodbury Inn, Strawberry Inn and Blackberry Inn. There is also a church that is very popular for wedding, and if fact one of the other guides, Dan, is a minister and often presides over the weddings.
Somehow, it just seem so appropriate to be sitting on the front porch of the Welcome Center, knitting for myself or for my family. Admittedly, the pioneer women living in these builds when they were first built would not have been using purple pastel acrylic/bamboo mix yarn on metal circular needles, but still, the connection is there. They are not forgotten.
As for the knitting itself, I have finished the decreases of the Demeter Camisole and am preparing to begin increasing again for the bust. Also, I am working the toe decreases for the toddler socks for my niece (which niece will depend on which one they fit).
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