This past week the Wagner crew went on their annual off site museum field trip. This year we went to Schaumburg to visit Volkening Heritage Farm and then west to Wheaton to tour Kline Creek Farm. The Chicago area has a number of historic farms that interpret many different time periods. A person could start at the 1840's at Garfield Farm go up in time 40 years to Volkening then another 10 to Kline Creek's 1890's site. The twentieth century is represented by Wagner Farm in the 1920's and Primrose which shows farm life in the Depression era.
For our staff, it was really neat to get to go behind the scenes and see how other site's deal with issues like storage, restoration and interpretation. I am going to try to post some videos I shot with the flip camera in the next week or so. Thanks to Evan, Monique and Jim for the great tours.
