Firestone Farm

This is the home where Henry Ford's friend Harvey Firestone grew up, as preserved at Ford's Greenfield Village. The photo was taken in the fall of 1988, only a few years after the farm was transplanted from Ohio.

Reducing Firestone to "Henry's friend" is a tremendous injustice. Firestone was an industrial giant in his own right; that he was friends with Ford and Edison is certainly important, but it leaves out most of the man's life.

I make it to Greenfield once or twice a decade. In all those visits, the addition of this farm is the biggest, and most obvious, change in the place.

Greenfield Village is a strange and wonderful place--a very personal museum and preservation effort, done on a very large scale, reflecting the eccentric personality and interests of its founder still five and a half decades after his death. That, friends, is a legacy.

Scanned from a slide.

Camera: Minolta Freedom 100