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August 18, 2017

Spend a night in the 19th-century at Sturbridge Village near Boston

  • For $325 you get a straw bed, bonnet, musket, and a bag to store your iPhone and flip-flops. It'll take you four hours to make dinner.
    • By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH
    Associated Press

    Tracee Herbaugh via AP [enlarge]
    Chickens and cows roam the grounds of Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Mass., a living museum that recreates rural New England life in the early 19th century.

    STURBRIDGE, Mass. — Perhaps it was the intrigue of a straw bed or the chance to finally shoot a gun, but when asked to spend a night living like a farmer in the 19th century, I jumped at the opportunity.


     
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