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After hearing that The Big E has a butter sculpture, the clan and I headed up to West Springfield, Massachusetts to check it out. Having never seen a butter sculpture before, I was seriously impressed by how realistic the sculpture was. Jim Victor, the sculptor, has spent years sculpting butter. Though he started out with…
The Big E is known as the largest fair in the Northeast. Occurring every September for two weeks, this event draws in tens of thousands of people, eager to get their fill of draft horse shows, midway rides and deep‐fried goodness. This past weekend, we made the trek to West Springfield, Massachusetts to join in…
With gadgets and gizmos a-plenty, Antiques and Tools is one of my favorite places to visit. From a 1920s Orvis tackle bag to a pin-up calendar of Marilyn Monroe, I treasure the unique items that I have found at this store. The place seems straight out of a novel. Outside, the property is scattered with…
From the mid-1800s through the 1940s, the hand-crank butter churn was the most commonly used household butter churn in America. Crank churns replaced simplistic wooden dash churns. It wasn’t long before crank churns were replaced by electric churns...
New Pond Farm located in Redding, CT is an environmental educational center and working farm. The center offers three mains programs: educational farm programs, astronomy programs and the Native American program...
The absolute classic in butter churning is the dash churn. The dash churn was the primary method of churning butter for centuries, until it was slowly made obsolete by the advent of hand-crank churns equipped with gears. Images of dash churns can be found everywhere from medieval manuscripts...
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