 Well, good morning all. This is Patricia and I am traveling for history. And in today's show, I'm going to be talking about my channel's accomplishments. So, and you may argue, well, Patricia, aren't those just your accomplishments? Well, yes, I would agree with that, but I have my own accomplishments. I, so these are specific to my channel that I want to share with you because I'm really proud of these things. I've worked hard for this. And although I would say overall, they are in no particular order. The first one will be the first one. And the last one, you really want to stay tuned for the last one because it's hands down my absolute favorite amongst this wonderful list I'm about to share with you. And it's both humbling and sweet. So without further ado, let's get started. I received an email in 2022 from a gentleman who's a volunteer with the Shelburne Historical Society and their museum. He maintains their website and he said that he added not one, but two of my videos to their website. Now, what you may not know is when you have a YouTube channel, there's something called Creator Studio. And in the Creator Studio, there's a whole bunch of things that are automatically checked by YouTube, including something called Allow Embedding, which means that people with websites can add my videos, any one of my videos, to their website. It's free. We love free. And I don't get paid for that either, which is perfectly fine. The idea is to have people interested in my videos that haven't come and watched them, become subscribers. So you may be wondering which two. And what's interesting is they are two videos on the same topic. And that's because when I had my last phone, an LG, that phone only allowed 30-minute videos. And then it would cut off. It would just stop recording. So that's why there are two videos on the same topic. And that topic was the Sheldon Poor Farm Cemetery. And here it is here. I was standing in the cemetery when I took that photograph. It actually extends a little farther to the left of the screen, but it's a fairly small place. As I understand it, the poor farm had actually been across the street from it. And it's an interesting place. I felt it was a bit somber when I was there. And I walk a zillion, a zillion cemeteries. So let me just talk about trying to find the place. I use Google Maps to get from point A to point B. And Google Maps got me to the poor farm road, fabulous. And then by half mile down the road, I heard, you've reached your destination. Both sides of the road, heavily wooded, except the occasional driveway. Now, I would not have been surprised if the cemetery had been behind those woods, but I had seen a photograph of it. And it wasn't in a place like that when that photo was taken. So there comes a point on the poor farm road when it forks. If I'd gone straight, it said camp something. And I thought, hmm, I don't think it's up there. And there was a bend in the road. But of course, was it labeled? Oh, no, no, no. Locals know where they're going. Visitors, who are visitors? I decided to follow the bend in the road. And there was nothing for a little bit, not sure how far, until I saw two things. On my left, a well-kept mobile home. And on my right out of the corner of my eye, I saw this old chain link fence, which was perpendicular to the road. I'm used to seeing some sort of fencing around cemeteries. So I thought, all right, well, I'll follow that. So as I am crawling on the road, thankfully, a dirt road was not much traffic. Well, actually, no traffic. I'm crawling along this chain link fence that was parallel to the road and what should appear but that cemetery. So it took a little bit to find the dog on the place, but so glad I did. So moving on to the next bits and bobs. This is another one of videos being added to an Historical Society's website. And this one was quite a bit. I was filming up in South Hero, Vermont in 2022. And then I went back this year in 2023. I had found out that there was gonna be a lot of buildings open in South Hero that aren't necessarily open to the public, which is fantastic. So determining which one was gonna be closing first, that's how I decided which was gonna film first. So the South Hero Bicentennial Museum. I filmed that in two parts. One of the things I had was this really interesting Victrola. It wasn't actually a Victrola, it was I think called Sonora, but if you saw it, you would recognize it. And that was the first floor of this place. Now, it was funny, when I got there, oh, there we go. There's that wonderful, wonderful piece. The first floor is chock full of things like that. And it's an incredible number of things. You should watch my video on it. Now this is the basement. They call it the basement, by the way. This has the larger items in it. And I'm gonna talk about one in particular because it's my favorite thing. So we see there's a wheel right there in the center of the screen. And just to the left, there is that interesting sort of device. Oh, yeah, there it is. This is a treadmill for a small animal to walk on. Or as one of the tour guides told me, a little kid could have walked on it too. This is the fourth time I've seen this kind of device, something I'd never seen before, 2022, because Citigal here, this was used on farms. And what it did, what this one did, and the one at the Sheldon Historical Society Museum, I have no photos of that place, but it powered a butter churn. It's the coolest thing ever, I don't know. It still just makes me giggle whenever I see these things. So I got to the museum and I asked the woman there if I could film. And she said, I don't wanna give a tour. I was mentally going through this. I was thinking, I don't think I asked for a tour. But she made a call and this woman came from across the street named Terri and she had brought someone else with her named Ron. And the two of them gave this impromptu, absolutely fantastic tour of both the upstairs and the basement. It was fabulous. And at the end of the tour, when we're back upstairs, I met a woman who said, well, you know, just send us your videos and we'll add them to our website. Well, these are the, I filmed, I think it was nine places in South Hero and these are the videos they added. The Ebenezer Allen State Historic Marker. It's a sort of a bummer that I have a playlist of State Historic Markers because I have learned so much from reading them. And yet I'm lucky if I get five views of any of these State Historic Markers. But they tell us that, for instance, for this State Historic Marker, it's on the site of the Pioneer's Tavern. And this person was related to Ethan Allen, a cousin maybe? I think it was a cousin. Amazing stuff. The South Hero Inn, which is a stone building, the old white meeting house, which what's neat about that is, and there it is right there. And what's neat about that is in 2023, I got to see the inside. And this one is called Look Inside Former School in Granny's Attic. Now Granny's Attic is a cells, I'd say household goods. There it is. Now it's not about the goods inside. Look at those windows because this building was a church, a meeting house, the fire department, which has two garages built into the side of the building. It was a schoolhouse. So the upstairs had been a schoolhouse and these big windows were a requirement of schoolhouses in I think the 1930s. So fabulous, fabulous, the light and air. That was the purpose, light and air. Next one was Visit the Honeymoon Cabin. It's open periodically, and there it is right there, when I was filming the, it's on the property of the old white meeting house. And when I was filming that in 2022, I came upon this and thought maybe it was a farm stand. No, no, no, it's the Honeymoon Cabin. It is open periodically but it was open and I think the last date was in some point in October. So you can contact the museum, they may know, because the museum is open year round. You know how amazing that is? It's stunning, most close. But they're open on Wednesdays. Not sure the hours, you can look that up online though. Another one they wanted was the War Memorial, which included waves and a whack. Waves are the female auxiliary for the Navy and the whack is the Women's Army Corps, so there was one woman who had served during World War II as a whack. There's the bell from the Home for Destitute Children. It's beautifully black because they painted it. It was, it had deteriorated. If you've watched any of my videos where I talk about bells, they're all rusted because they're exposed to the elements. So they painted that black to preserve it. And we can see this is also outside. And then as I said before, the two parts one in the basement of the South Hero Bicentane Museum, you know, it's free admission. So I highly recommend you go and check it out. Now the Lincoln Historical Society Museum which closed in October this year and it will reopen in June of 2024. What a fabulous place. Now to the video, so I filmed three videos there. The farmhouse, the cupola with a bell inside from the Baptist church. Those two videos had not gone live yet, but they will pretty soon. But I was in the Old English Barn. They actually officially call this place the barn, but the other name for it is the Old English Barn because apparently it has a post, it has a post in beam construction and so they call it the Old English Barn. Now all of the farming implements inside were used in Lincoln, Vermont. So we can see some of my favorite stuff. I love tools. I love seeing, that's my favorite thing to look at is tools. And this whole barn is filled with these things. They have plows, they have buckboards, yeah, buckboards. They have signage, like you see here, the maple syrup and candy, the Browns General Store. They have signage all over. I mean, all the way to the ceiling they have signage. It's absolutely fabulous. Another thing they have in that barn which was really was, had a lot of foresight, really. They have pieces of wood from each of the lumber mills and how each of the lumber mills milled it. It's mind blowing. I had never seen that before. Maybe I'll see it again. Like that treadmill, like that treadmill. So that's wild. So they've also asked to, for links, so they can put them on their website. They already have the link for the Old English Barn and they'll receive the links for the other two videos once they go live. So, huge thanks to these Historical Society Museums, Historical Societies that want to include my links on their website. And that reminds me too, if you wanna read more about the Sheldon Poor Farm, then I highly recommend you go to the Sheldon Historical Society's website. They have a tremendous history on the place. I filmed the Poor Farm Cemetery. The Poor Farm no longer stands. Something else, I mean, something, another accomplishment is I am eligible to connect my website, travelingforhistory.com to Facebook in order to sell my goods. I wanna be clear that this is not Facebook Marketplace. This is a specific business to business selling opportunity. Plus, you know, and Facebook is not the only one. TikTok for months now has been trying to convince me to open a store on their social media platform as well. So this next one is kind of interesting. I received an email. I wanna say it was in July of 2023. It could have been August, but we'll go with July because that's what I think it might be from Jordan here at Town Meeting TV. She says she had just discovered my content on my channel, which is predominantly Vermont history, of course. So she was wondering if I would be interested in adding my Vermont content to the Town Meeting TV's Vermont history tab. I'm still a bit speechless about that. Yeah, I'm still gobsmacked, to be honest. So a British term for what? So pretty wild, more than wild. And of course, also in that email, she said that she was wondering if I would be interested in being interviewed. You can watch that interview on my channel. It's up on my channel. So up next is my absolute favorite of that wonderful list of accomplishments. Hands down, my favorite. So, oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot one. So let me, before I go to my favorite, this is really amazing. So after the interview with Bobby Lucier, Bobby told me that he had typed in Vermont history into the YouTube search box. And my channel, Traveling for History, came up fourth in the search results. Fourth in the search results. This is out of millions of YouTube channels, millions of them. Many that cover Vermont history. And mine came up fourth. It's funny because some friends, and he had been in M1 Avenue Cemetery. And they saw this headstone that had been repaired pretty recently. They were there on a Sunday. The day before that, the Vermont Cemetery Association was there repairing headstones. And wouldn't you know, I had filmed that particular headstone in that particular cemetery on that Saturday. Go figure. All right. Now finally, we are to the drum roll please, to my favorite accolade of them all. During the interview, there was something that Bobby and I could see that you, our viewers, could not. What could that be? Before the interview, Bobby had emailed me that a couple of people wanted to come and watch the filming. He asked me, what do you think? Sure, the more the merrier. Well, those folks were there sitting just at a camera view to our left. They were sitting on the grass. And I look at numbers all the time in the analytics. I know that as of the filming of this video right now, that I have 620 subscribers to my channel. And I have to say, I remember in 2021, when I started my channel, that I had six subscribers and I did not think I would reach 10. The folks who were there that day, faces to numbers. Really amazing. Really amazing. And even better, if you can imagine, is this sign. We love traveling for history, in fact. And, not just that, but as they were sitting there, they would sometimes wave it like this, which was a lot of fun. I'll put this over here so you can continue to enjoy looking at it as much as I have. There was a point when we were talking afterwards. And the woman was holding the sign. I wanted to ask her for it, but there are times when, although I could be, no, pushy's not really the right word. Forward, no. Well, something along those lines. There are other times when I am more reserved and even shy, and I didn't really feel comfortable asking for the sign. But a couple of days later, I typed an email to Bobby and asked if he would mind seeing if I could have the sign. And sure enough, it was waiting for me here and this pink sign here, this pink note here, says for Patricia and has a little smiley face on it. It is the darndest thing. So, my favorite thing ever. I find it abundantly humbling too, by the way. Very sweet that they would go to the trouble to make this sign for me and to want to be present during the filming. That was thrilling. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. So I'm really glad you could stay to the end of the show, especially to see this. I plan to get this framed, by the way. It's really a wonderful memento of an amazing thing to have someone want to interview me. And one of my favorite comments, by the way, was when I was at the Lincoln Historical Society Museum. One of the people who gave a tour, again, a tour, had looked up my channel and my website. And she said that she felt that I was filming Vermont's cultural history. I think I'm gonna use that line, moving forward. I have filmed two buildings. One has since been demolished and one is almost demolished. So it's really nice to be able to film places before they're gone. All right, so glad you could hang out with me today, the TV show, truly appreciate that. And as I always say at the end of my YouTube videos, this is Patricia and I am traveling for history. And until I see you again, I hope you have an absolutely fabulous rest of your day. Thanks for watching. Bye now.