Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: greenfield village

Greenfield Village, sometime in 1988. Scanned from film.

Well, sort of. This was his home when he lived in Ann Arbor, but after he moved away, Henry Ford purchased it, and moved it to Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Pretty place. Photo taken in the fall of 1988. Scanned from a slide.

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