Old Sturbridge Village Author:Kent McCallum Old Sturbridge Village is an outdoor museum in Massachusetts that depicts life in a working community of the 1830s. — Presenting a portrait of the village based on photographs, artifacts, and detailed research, this book, published in the year of its 50th anniversary, takes readers from the rustic farmhouse kitchen to the genteel parlour in... more » the finest house on the village common, and from the blacksmith's shop with its ringing hammers to the rural printing office with its bookstore. It stops along the way to examine and explain home furnishings and decorative arts, costume and dress, food and cooking utensils, and implements and devices of many kinds.« less