History Road

I have been very busy in the last bit, having started my summer job. I have been writing a special program about Jane Howse Livingston for Heritage Park Historical Village (Perhaps a post about this later), and in between work and program writing I have been travelling back and forth between Calgary and Edmonton and home. But I love being busy.
Last month I had the opportunity to volunteer at a car show called History Road put on by Reynolds Alberta Museum. I have been volunteering at Reynolds for pretty much as long as I can remember, and have been waiting for an eternity to be given permission to drive antique automobiles - and finally my clean driving record paid off!

 I spent the first day filming a Youtube clip about a 1926 REO Speedwagon G 2-Ton Truck with another volunteer (who is also a staff-members child) and then learning a bit about a 1929 Willys-Knight Model 56A Four Door Sedan and going for what I like to call "educational drives."
The second day I was very excited that I was not only allowed to drive a 1947 Oldsmobile Model 66 Club Coupe (which is an automatic), and a 1965 Ford Fairline 500 Two Door Hardtop, but a 1911 International Harvester Comany Auto-wagon Model B High-wheeler! It was so much fun learning to drive some old cars, and having my dad teach me. Unfortunately I didn't get much practice because it poured rain all day and we had to drive everything back into the warehouse, but it was still a really exciting time for me!  (And due to the rain I failed to really get any pictures...) I feel very fortunate to have grown up surrounded by antique machinery and having had opportunites to learn not only about the cars, but the people who owned them and how great of an effect they had on society and the way we live today. And it is fun too!