While at the Military Muster 2010 at the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village in August I had the opportunity to enter the buildings in the village, I usually find them padlocked for security. I was hoping to see the interior of my 3rd great-uncle, John Holden's cabin. My hopes were dashed as I walked up to the Holden homestead and saw that there was a padlock on the door. I was surprised to see that it wasn't locked and proceeded to remove the open lock and go inside. My husband was protesting, saying that it wasn't open to the public, but I said that I was going in anyway and take a few pictures and slip the lock back on, nobody would know and what harm could there be?
I went inside and hubby hesitantly followed me in. As I was walking around the house I was taking longer than anticipated, reading the history of the people that lived there. By the time I was finished there were other people coming into the house so I just left it open. I'm pretty sure that the padlock being there was an oversight, at least I hope it was.
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| John and Rhoda Holden |
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| Willard Holden family |
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| living area |
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another view of living area |
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| kitchen |
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| master bedroom |
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| another view of bedroom, there was an open loft on the second floor. |
I happened onto your blog by clicking on "next blog" at the top of my blog. This cabin looks beautiful! How exciting that it's been preserved and that you were able to go inside and take photos. Thanks for sharing the photos.
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