The fourth building had an exhibit of photographs taken between 1933 and 1968. The black and white portraits spoke to both of us. We imagined the lives and the emotions of the subjects. The fifth building had more bagpipes in one place than I have ever seen. From simple bone flutes to pag pipes with a seperate bellows, to bagpipes made from old fabric, to bagpipes filled made from and made to look like a small goat! We then visited the cider house, the peasant house, a few graineries, a large area for functions and a local Asturian bowling arena. This type of bowling had nine tall and skinny pins arranged in three rows of three pins and a palm sized hand held wooden ball,
Stark reality
The tools of the trade, a scythe and a basket
Coal miner's brother
Kids will be kids
Grumpy men
Heis wearing traditional wooden shoes that have knobby bottoms
Pretty fancy c;llothes
Fish in a bucket
The bagpipe display
Older ones with a single spindle
A little goat pabpite
The bellows is on the left side
Another goat with a big bellows
This looks like it was an old dress before it became a bagpipe
This one has all the attachments
A golden one and a find checkered pattern
This shows the extent of all the bagpipes in this room
Other local instruments, the accordian
Castanettes
The Hurdy Gurdy
Traditional the hurdy gurdy was played by blind men who also sold the odd pamphlet ot two. This one was the history of the chapeau
Early players and radios
Playing the mouth harp
Is this the same man playing from the picture above?
A communal granery
Varmints could not get up the legs and into the grainery
A peasant house
Very tight quarters
A big building dedicated to making cider
It was the biggest building on the grounds
Huge beams used to press the apples
Some discussion ensued as to how the press worked
Slats on the roof
An event was being prepared
A bowling arena
the launching pad for the bowling
An electric vespa
It has been 4 years and 111 days since we began our Migration
