The Michigan State Fair is located in Detroit at Woodward and 8-mile
and is currently still going on. This is supposedly the last year for
it, for financial reasons.
I've been going to state fairs and seeing butter sculptures all my life, but I never met the sculptor(s) or had a behind the scenes tour, so imagine my surprise and pleasure at having that opportunity last night. We were at the state fair for over 7 hours and exhausted and ready to leave, but we went into one more building. And there was the butter sculpture and sculptors! They took us behind the scenes so we could see how they worked and actually get inside and take close-up pictures. These are only a few of the pictures, though the lighting challenges were great. We weren't prepared for that kind of lighting. The final picture shows us inside the butter sculpture taken by the sculptor herself, from outside. The reflections make it hard to tell we're inside.
Wow, a story about the Butter Cow. Thank you Mary. I'm the apprentice Rachel Wolski. I've been doing it for the past 4 years. Tom Fitzgerald had done it for the past 17 years. I hope I don't lose my job to do it next year, if they really do close the fair. There are pictures of how the cow was made on Facebook. Search Michigan Butter Cow. Mary, I'd love for you to take pictures next year if it happens.
The Michigan State Fair is located in Detroit at Woodward and 8 mile Roads. The very sad news is, this may be the last one ever, as Michigan is hard hit by the recession and the auto industries are in trouble. We got so tired because we wanted to see everything, as we may never have another chance. We did sign a petition to save the fair--but we also signed ne to save the Aquarium. :-(
We have out of town company coming today, so I may not be online to
make comments etc.
1)The Ford House viewed from one of the ponds.
2)The woodland swimming pool.
3 & 4)Roses in the rose garden--she kept no red roses; she felt they
were too gaudy.
5)Water lily from one of the ponds.
The first pictures is at the approach or driveway side of the house. The second is the terrace on the side, the third is the river side of the house, opposite the driveway side, which Mrs. Ford considered the "front" of the house. The last is the view from terrace, or part of it. The grounds are very extensive and the view from the house in all directions is pleasant. We were not allowed to take pictures inside, but tomorrow, hopefully, I will show some pictures of the grounds.
Tomorrow I hope to show more pictures from the mansion itself. We
were not allowed to take pictures inside. And I had only my point and
shoot with me. But I have a few pictures that are probably worth
sharing.
The PLAYHOUSE! When Josephine Ford was six years old, her grandmother had a "playhouse" constructed for her that cost $15,000. It is as big as some "real houses" that people live in all their lives. (It's not a big house, but here in Detroit, some people live in very small houses with their whole families. I myself lived for some time in a house smaller than this.) Everything inside was miniaturized to the size of a six-year old child, including the toilet. It had a real working stove and a real working ice box and small low light switches (this at time when electricity had not been around all that long).
It also had fairy tales all around the outside. I will hopefully tell you more about it tomorrow. I will tell you this, it cost $10 for adults to visit the Ford House and it was money well spent, I thought. We bought a membership ($35 for the year) and will be going back.
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