 Well, fine. Good morning, everyone. This is Patricia and I am traveling for history and If traveling for history sounds familiar to you, that's because I have a YouTube channel by the same name and On my YouTube channel. I offer a variety of topics for instance I film videos of buildings on the national or state register of historic places So I film a lot of covered bridges Which is a fan favorite and you know 1974 seem to be a very popular year for covered bridges here in Vermont because a lot of them were added that year One of the covered bridges I have filmed Was in Montgomery, Vermont and actually all of the towns I'm going to mention today are located in Vermont So there are six covered bridges in Montgomery Has the largest number of covered bridges not only in Vermont, but in the United States Now what I love about these covered bridges, especially that one there is they have Multiple names. So this is officially the West Hill covered bridge But it's it's also known as a creamery covered bridge which is on Creamery Bridge Road It's kind of handy when you're trying to find a covered bridge that they have the roads for them, too and although this is located in in The middle of nowhere really When I was driving there Google I use Google Maps and Google Maps said Turn right the next turn is gonna be right and I'm thinking well, there is no road I was on a dirt road covered with leaves because it was fall and Yeah, I the road looked like a driveway it was also dirt I mean, I'm not surprised it was dirt, but it was dirt But the reason I turned down there finally decided to turn down there is because I saw a stop sign on the road covered with a tree But in a tree branch, but so down there In the what is now the middle of nowhere. There are foundations of what have been a creamery so But so this is the creamery Covered a creamery bridge covered covered bridge. So that's pretty handy I also offer recommendations of books videos and even magazines. I Walk cemeteries that's something I've done most of my life anyway and You know, I remember a saying And it says that you're not truly forgotten Until no one says your name So as I walk a cemetery and I'm saying the names of these people by reading their headstones or monuments to my audience in the back of my head I'm thinking well, you're not forgotten right now. I Also love to film museums and if you've been watching my channel, you've been watching a lot of videos I filmed at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum And if you're loving those those videos, no worries. I have more for you to see and Let us not and oh the what you're seeing on the screen right now is a Fraction of the buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. It's Astonishing how many of those videos I actually have Another type of museum. I absolutely love which also holds a soft place in my heart are Historical Society museums. They do not get the love and the attention. They truly deserve now One of the things I do like about filming historical society museums and even before I was filming them when I was visiting them is How much they show us how similar we are? So for instance last year in 2022 I Filmed I seem I didn't film I visited the St. Albans Museum The original name of that museum was the St. Albans Historical Society Museum and In there the director was giving me a tour which was lovely She pointed out this treadmill that a small animal would have walked on and the purpose of that was to Power something that a human would want to use Once I saw it there. I then saw it again at the brick school museum which houses the The items from the Georgia Historical Society. I Then saw it again at the Sheldon Historical Society Museum. In fact, I was kind of giddy if you watch that video I I was gleefully looking for it and sure enough it was on it was at the back wall So they have one there and then again when I visited the South Hero Bicentennial Museum video coming soon look for it on November 1st but They also had one down in their basement now one of the people there had said to me well The the small animals would have walked it Maybe little kids would have walked on it which would make sense They would be a tantalizing to a little kid and there's powered a butter churn Now I also visited the Lincoln Historical Society Museum Now they don't have one of those kinds of treadmills. Do you know what kind they have? I hope you're sitting down because this is wild. They have this humongous treadmill a horse would have walked and that horse horse power don't you know that horse powered a drag saw a Drag saw is used to cut trees that have fallen I'm still I'm still just Got smacked by that. It's just wild So I Love Historical Society Museums for you know, certainly that and and the fact that they need more love and attendance and all that good stuff Also on my channel you'll find that I offer shorts videos these are videos that are under one minute long and They are on any topic whatsoever because the thing with history is everything falls under its umbrella It's fabulous. So everything is fair game in fact today's video, which is a short video is a day-long legs Crawling on a headstone. I Was filming in the cemetery this American Civil War veteran when I turned around to Leave to walk up the road to find another one of those men I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough a day-long legs and What the heck why not film that and that as I said is today's video during Halloween week other shorts videos topics would be weather nature Heavy machinery had everything else in between I have a lot of shorts videos on my channel something for practically everyone In fact last year and pretty I was pretty excited by this that I actually captured snow starting to stick And when I posted that video and had that bit of a description One of the commenters said well, you know snow is supposed to do that Well, yes, yes it is so I mentioned these this Civil War veteran and It's because I offer videos on people and if you've been watching you've likely seen this series I've had I have a lot of them. I've been looking for 34 of these men buried at Prospect Cemetery in East Middlebury of Those 34 I have found 30 30 Now for the most part I have their enlistment information because I found a website that has all these things Some of them though have an obituary and what I'll say about an obituary is There's one whose video is not going live yet where the obituary was so well written it was clearly It was clearly written by someone who knew the person and respected him greatly. It's It's an amazing obituary and An even smaller number Have a photograph Let's think about that for a moment. These men have been dead for well over a hundred years and Some have a photograph so putting a face to a name a face to a headstone is Intriguing so Why on earth what I want to host a TV show since I have a YouTube channel, you know, that's a valid question It's one I even asked myself, but So I have a working document if you will and with a few ideas. So for instance if I find information on Any of the videos I have on my channel. I want to share that information here so so for instance I Have filmed a building on the National Register of Historic Places and that building is called the Louis and filament captains Louis and filament Daniels house it is far less about that house and far more about Filament Daniels and that's because she made International headlines I'm going to leave you with that teaser you don't watch my video on my channel for that for the rest of that's particular story thing is few months later, I found more information on her and So I'll share that here. This was a remarkable woman who deserves to be Filmed talked about Have her information shared now. I want to also offer behind the scenes Information, you know, it's stories really it's not it's far less about information and far more about stories The stuff that goes on besides the fact that I wonder how I get anything done on some days You may be surprised by other things that happen so in fact I want to share one of those stories now so Sometimes people make requests I can't always fulfill those requests and and That is a bummer But in 2022 I was asked to create a video on Highgate Manor Which is located in Highgate, Vermont near the Canadian border what I loved about that particular Assignment was the fact that I was able to get two videos out of the one request And why would I get two videos out of that? Well, it's because the the First video was the history of the building itself and the second video was its Haunted history Which is fantastic So let me start with sharing my experience of driving up there. I Was on route 207. I knew that that Highgate Manor was located on 207, but I didn't know where except I knew it'd be in Highgate So I'm driving along I had just entered Highgate and And I'm sort of waiting to see it and as I was driving all of a sudden I Was hit by an absolute wall of bad vibes Ever since I was a little kid. I've had Feelings about things I Am not psychic. I'm not saying that at all I'm just saying that every now and then I get a feeling about something and this was a wall of bad vibes And you know what I saw next immediately on my left Highgate Manor now Across from Highgate Manor is a church and by the behind the church is the cemetery I knew I was going to film the cemetery first because it was it was almost dusk and I it's easier to film in a cemetery when it's a bit lighter For safety reasons there are low headstones and I did not want to trip and fall that's no just no just know Especially since there was some snow still in the ground Because it's filming in March of last year So I'm in the cemetery. I found the Baxter family and we can see this this picture right here and I was specifically there to film Dr. Baxter There the the who owned Highgate Manor It's handy how all this works out now. I was there to film so I filmed Filmed a Video and didn't really like that video so I deleted it and Filmed the second one that this is fairly common actually when I'm out There could be problems with the first video. There could be just I don't like the first video and I film a second video No big deal. I Didn't like that video either Huh, that's okay, so I filmed a third one. I didn't like that I didn't like the fourth one the fifth one or the sixth one when I film the seventh one. Okay. All right, I like this one I Seven videos seven Holy cow at this point. It is now dusk. The sun is definitely going down. What you don't see is How dark it is necessarily I can I know that but my camera makes it look lighter than it is So that's great for filming for you, but I know how much darker it is in real life so I want to film the Highgate Manor next and I'm standing out there first of all. Yeah, so you see this 8,000 square foot house and I'm staying there to the right on the across the street The I Filmed the first haunted. I filmed the history video and that was fine one take boom boom done second video Which was the haunted video? I filmed it once I didn't like that one. I filmed it a second time didn't like that one either Film to the third time. Nope. No go filmed a fourth a fifth a Sixth a seventh and eighth and a ninth time I didn't really like the ninth video, but it was the ninth video and it was getting darker and I really just wanted to start heading home because I didn't know the roads all that well So I accepted that video Few days later was up in that area again I knew I was going to be going by there to go to another area and decide all right I will stop and film this haunted one one more time and if this doesn't doesn't work. I'm going with the ninth So I filmed the tenth video and wouldn't you know it? I like that one so bizarre this is a This is one of them the graves of Dr. Baxter and his wife So Dr. Baxter Had had his practice in his house. This was exceptionally common and quite frankly when I was a little kid and I saw a pediatrician that Pediatrician had his office in his home Granted that was over 50 years ago, but who's counting so So this is a very common practice now Dr. Baxter also had an operating room in his house supposedly which is now a library and Supposedly you can still see the blood stains on the floor rumor has it that Dr. Baxter experimented on his children and Most did not live to see the age of 10 those children Reputedly haunt the place to this day Now this particular area of the house since it is supposed to be haunted and this was a stop on the underground railroad Which makes a lot of sense because the Canadian border is pretty close This side of the house is supposedly haunted by an African-American man and Highgate Manor is a gorgeous house You know as of the filming of this video It was it was on the market in January 2023 and you can see video pictures rather You can see I have videos on the brain you can see photographs of the interior of that house pretty impressive well, it's 8,000 square feet and definitely I Mean it has that cupola on top and it's spectacular so as I ponder things to share with you another piece I'm thinking about is Having guests I have I Actually have one who who may be able to come on next month. So in November. So how fantastic is that? So I'll be reaching out to some more people I know to to join me here and have a chat with because who doesn't like to learn about People and what they do Places they they volunteer or work so a variety of historical society museum people. I'll be reaching out to So should you folks be watching expect an email? Oh by the way So That's another piece. I'm thinking about so if you have any suggestions of topics You'd be interested in learning more about I'd be happy to share now after I leave here. I plan to film at least two places maybe three and and There's no mistake why I wanted to start this channel before Halloween Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year Thanksgiving is tasty and Who doesn't love to give and receive gifts for Christmas, right? But it's Halloween. It's Halloween and that's because Years ago. I had co-owned a second-hand toy store called Janet's thingamajigs on Halloween these little kids, you know three or four-year-old kids would come in Dressed in the costumes and was with their faces painted. I remember one little kid had the face painted with the whiskers and this little one was wearing a Lions costume with the huge mane and a tail that was well dragging on the ground absolutely adorable and The thing that that kid is now pushing 30 is remarkable. That's so adorable The other reason I love Halloween is the spooky stuff. Who doesn't love spooky stuff? So When I was a little kid I was watching these these scary movies in the 70s Looking back on them now. I've watched them as an adult. They're schlocky. Absolutely, but they're still kind of spooky and And certainly because my mother enjoyed these old black-and-white films lots of Atmospherically spooky haunted house stuff Absolutely love that stuff Still love it now so I really wanted to offer this video because of Halloween so the places I plan to go after here. It's kind of interesting one One is I Can't park on the road because of what appeared to be culverts on either side So that's a no-go and If it's unsafe to park you can bet your sweet Bippy It's gonna be unsafe to stand on the side of the road not that that has stopped me I stood in the side of Route 7 with tractor trailers going by whoo. I've also stood in the side of Route 2 Because it was filming something I couldn't film closer to the space Now this is on a stretch of route to the place. I want to film today Which is a pretty busy road. It's a main thoroughfare so Cross my fingers wish me luck as I decide if I want to take that risk. It's a Halloween display It's a phenomenal Halloween display, so That will likely Overrule every bit of a common sense. I may still have The And the other is a cemetery Cemetery has the creepiest vibes I've ever experienced in a cemetery and I have walked oodles of them by now You can look at my channel. I have I have a I have a Vermont cemeteries playlist. I have a Lakeview cemetery playlist. I have two different green mount cemetery playlist because one is in Montpelier and one's in Burlington I have walked a lot of cemeteries But this one gives the creepiest vibe creepiest vibe and There I should be able to get three videos today three the creepy vibe one the fact that the cemetery and There's a section on Revolutionary war soldiers. I think people would be would find those interesting as well and then whilst I'm down that way I may as well go back to Prospect Cemetery and See you and find those last four men So in coming months, I hope to have guests Because you know understand although I have almost a thousand videos on my channel most of my videos I'm not even in my philosophy is you want to see what's in front of the camera and not who is behind it I could be wrong on that notion, but I'd rather see what someone is looking at myself in a video than what they look like which is perhaps unkind but It Show me what you're looking at so as I would say in any one of my videos is an ending is I appreciate your watching and This is Patricia and I am Traveling for history until I see you again. I hope you have a fabulous day. Thanks for watching now. Bye now