July 15, 2011

BreyerFest

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Here at the Kentucky Horse Park, it’s time for BreyerFest: the annual celebration of, yes, Breyer model horses (and live ones, too) that attracts thousands of people to the park. After having worked here at the KHP for about ten years, I can say that, of all the many events at the Horse Park each year, BreyerFest is second in attendance only to the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.

And, just like “Rolex,” BreyerFest attracts people from all over the place.

Among a row of cars in the parking lot early this morning, there was my car (from Kentucky) and cars from Texas, Ohio, Mississippi, Indiana, Florida, and Virginia. As I walked to the KHP restaurant for lunch today, I heard one family of six say they had come all the way from Arizona.

When I arrived this morning (before 8 a.m. to try to avoid the traffic and the crowds in the parking lot), the BreyerFest entrance gates weren’t open yet. But here’s what various portions of the line looked like:

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July 14, 2011

if you find yourself in New Brunswick (Canada)

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… this summer, you may want to pay a visit to the Campbell Carriage Factory in Sackville.

In about 1850, Ronald Campbell and his son, George, converted a tannery building into a carriage-making factory. Today, the facility is Canada’s only fully intact nineteenth-centuy carriage factory. Visitors can see the machine room, the hanging-up room, the assembly room, the paint room, and more.

One of the museum’s staff members has started a blog for the summer, where you can read more about the museum and about its new mascot, a “mouse” named Spokes.

 

July 13, 2011

a place-saver

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OK, I’ll admit it. This is another one of those (rare, I hope) posts about nothing … just so that I can post something in my quest to update the blog every day.

I’m working frantically diligently to finish the August issue of The Carriage Journal so that I can send it off to the printer. The official “send to the printer” day is Friday, but I may have to send it Monday, although I haven’t admitted that to our printer yet (Hi, Henry!).

My goal, though, is to have enough done by the end of the week so that I don’t have to come in to the office this weekend … thereby giving me one extra day (Monday) to work on the magazine, but not three extra days. Why? Because this weekend is BreyerFest at the Kentucky Horse Park. Which means lots of people, lots of toy (and real) horses, and more traffic than any other regular KHP event besides the Rolex KY Three-Day Event.

Wish me luck!

 

July 12, 2011

a traveling piano heir

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This isn’t exactly carriage- or driving-related … except that I found it on the cover of the April 17, 1897, issue of Rider and Driver.

This is “George A. Steinway, of New York, from a photograph taken in front of the Pyramids of Ghizeh, Egypt, February 1896.”

From a quick bit of research, I think this is the same George Steinway whose grandfather founded the famous piano-making company of the same name. He (George) died two years after this photo was taken, in a steamship accident while on his way to Europe.

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July 10, 2011

name that vehicle, part 1

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We’re going to play a little game here on the blog on Sundays for the next few weeks. 

On the cover of the August issue of The Carriage Journal, we’ll have a very colorful vehicle … which I will present to you here in four pieces, before doing the “reveal” of the actual cover in early August, while that issue is in the mail to CAA members.

Ready?

We’ll start with the lower left corner of the image, and then we’ll continue around, going clockwise. Here’s your first clue:

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