[endthematrix]

America's farming and pioneer heritage is kept alive with draft horse enthusiasts. My wife and I volunteered at our local living history museum, "Blackberry Farm’s Pioneer Village" in Aurora, IL. I was a blacksmith and my wife worked in the spinning and pioneer cabins. While there I learned that there are many citizens keeping our nations great history alive. Even exporting it to countries in Africa and South America, where even today their agriculture and factory production can't compete with America in the 1800's! So they train members of their society in blacksmithing and draft animals, hoping that they can lift their economies. Not with money from the World Bank, but from their own hand. A hand up, not a hand out, so to speak.

[Stoat]

What a great thing for you and your wife to do! Thanks very much for the great post and thank you for your volunteer work....it sounds like a wonderful project and I wish you great success.