KENTUCKY, Art Show and Railroad Museum and Train Cars

The Saturday before leaving the Bowling Green area we checked out an Art Show at a local college. The had a nice selection of artists and many were from Berea, Kentucky. It sounded like Berea might be a nice town to spend a day shopping in many unique shops. We'll have to remember that for another trip. This lady and Gary found they had a lot in common in art. She had some beautiful photographs prints. And next door to her was a Santa shop! These Santa's were made of polymer clay, and such detailed faces as well as their clothing! She was very talented. She sure would be a hit at Shaker Woods in Columbiana. She was very sweet and pleasant to talk with. She was not afraid to share ideas from her trade either. But I am sure that you would have to have a gift to be any good at this! I sneaked up on this display of furniture to get a picture as I want to share this with our son. I was thinking that he might like this style of furniture in his 1885 house. It sure would last forever. At first the lady next door must have thought that I was photographing her purses, and might steal her ideas. Not! I do look at the purses, but not to buy. Can't afford them!! And the jewelry booths, we pass right by. But they get a lot of attention from many other ladies. There were plenty of paintings, photography and pottery booths. . I am not tempted with that either as we do not have space. But I wish I could learn to be like the experts in photography though! We also checked out these train cars and this Railroad Museum . The main lobby in the museum was closed for the day in preparation for a wedding reception . I had to take the picture through a window, thus the glare. The museum also had a multiple track train layout that was operated all of the time for the kids enjoyment especially. It also had display cases of many of the china and silver sets used in the dining cars. They are in the process of restoring the mail car and another car. We got to go through the sleeper with a pull out steps for the upper bed and the dining car . The food was prepared right in the dining car in a fully equipped kitchen . And another car had the kitchen and a private dining room as well as a lounge for the business men who traveled. We have seen so many museums at this point that I am beginning to tell Gary that "if you have seen one, you have seen them all"! But that is actually not always true as they all have more and more history depending on the region of our country that they are in. So we keep on looking for the differences!