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| - Thanksgiving was yesterday, and somehow the Pioneer Living History Village seems like an appropriate Black Friday activity. I'm thankful that our community puts forth the effort to preserve our history on a 90 acre plot of land that seems further away from Phoenix than it should be, but what I'm most thankful for is that I wasn't born during the nineteenth century. That's no Yelp people. Yeah, it's hard to imagine. And water fountains, I'm thankful for water fountains because I live in Arizona and don't always have a water bottle. And Thanksgiving leftovers for lunch with my family on a bench in the Pioneer Living History Village, that's nice. And I'm thankful for the fake man in the outhouse because he was funny.
Thankfully, the need for hand holding and entertaining my six year old daughter as we walked around the village was minimal. I was a little worried at the start as the Victorian House with a child's room containing toys and a baby's room with dolls and a carriage didn't catch her attention. Probably because it was a look from the doorway and no touching affair. However, the blacksmith made a metal hook for hanging clothes right in front of us to demonstrate the forge and then gave it to my daughter; we were set for the rest of the village. A few lizards and no snakes later, we were doing pretty well. The cemetery led to some questions about life, or maybe it was death, and we enjoyed seeing the schoolhouse on a non-school day. How crazy is that?
In case you didn't know, you can't call yourself an Arizonian unless you've attended at least one gunfight, staged or otherwise. So we waited another 30 minutes to catch the show. By far the worst gun show I have ever seen, but a gun show nonetheless. The gun safety talk at the beginning is a nice touch, and at the end of the gun show there is a lot of shooting. And most of the people seem to be volunteers, so don't give them a hard time. It's all good fun.
The buildings were restored or recreated, and the restored buildings were moved to the village from various locations (e.g., Phoenix, Glendale, Globe). So the people who lived in one house were not neighbors with the people in the house next door. You can only enter most of the buildings when a volunteer is present. So you may want to go on a day that would be busy, like Black Friday.
And on a final note, the mothballs are to keep the bats away and I'm not even going to tell you what they do to Diet Coke cans. Okay, I'll tell you. They shoot them with blanks. Blam!! Point blank range. And then you get the idea that maybe you don't want to take a blank in the chest at point blank range. And then they tell you that you don't want to take a blank in the chest at point blank range. That's that gun safety talk I was extolling earlier.
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