Saturday, Fogeyisms will take you to visit SAUDER VILLAGE near Archbold in northwest Ohio.  If you've never been there, this destination needs to be on your bucket list.  It is the Williamsburg of our state.  You can do a visit in a day but two would be more desirable.

That's lady friend Sue (above) reading literature on one of several barns on display in the recreated village while enactor Carolyn regales visitors with tales of an 1835 schoolhouse.  The hickory stick in her hand did what those sticks were known for in those days--long gone.

But Carolyn also told us how a thin tree trunk leaning just so, like the stick she is holding, was used to prop up the school's slightly leaning, wood chimney which would inevitably catch fire.  When that happened, the larger boys in the class would run around back and kick the tree trunk down (below) which would allow the burning chimney to topple harmlessly into the schoolyard, thus avoiding burning the school down.

Sauder Village is history personified.  Do yourself a favor and take a peek some day soon.  We're certainly glad we did.