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about you have the Robinson family here at Roka beat that was four generations how often do you find one institution that has that but also they were part of the Underground Railroad so I we like coming here because it's a condensed piece of history but that's broad of course very important to our nation but you get a nice chunk of it right here between the Underground Railroad history and also the legacy of this family which spans all the way from the 1800s into 1960 where do you find that under 1 roof in one family in the U.S so one reason is that they've they were able to preserve it here so I loved this museum for that reason what we have in these four generations is you can look at agriculture you can look at Art you can look at abolition I think people are really taken by the the range of how much is in this we I know we have 90 Acres but in this relatively small space how much is held we also have seasonal exhibit space which allows us to tell multiple stories of the family that lived here from 1793 until 1961 there was a Robinson who lived and worked on this site and we have a lot of their possessions still in our collection so we can use this space to tell their story so let your eyes get used to the yeah to the light so as you can see this is the original main room of the house it was two rooms up two rooms down the walk-in fireplace was what they used originally of course and in the winter this was certain you know the favorite room so they they made everything here in originally they made candles you can see the molds over there they certainly cooked here they made bread they dried apples um for eating later and pumpkins and and such so everything in the house all of the artifacts are things that were either owned by the Robinsons or used to buy the Robinsons nobody had to bring in anything to make it you know a period correct kind of situation because they never threw anything away I think one of the important things with the Robinsons is that family members did recognize the importance of the family to history and they recognized the Underground Railroad was an important part of the family's history they recognized that Roland Evans Robinson who was third generation was an important literary figure and an artist and his daughter was an important artist and they saved all of their items and they even labeled some of the items so we know where they came from and who purchased them or who gave them to the family and I think there was a hope that one day visitors would be able to come to the sites and learn about the family and learn about their history and really take away something special from the history of the Robinson family that's what's really unique about about roku's story uh is that we can tell all these different aspects of black history in Vermont and the aspects of freedom and folks finding freedom for the first time and also the aspect of folks that are black providers living in Vermont through the 19th century and the challenges and successes that they were finding coming from the south we have history y'all have history too the histories are connected with the Abolitionist Movement the slavery movement it's interesting to hear this part of it from from another perspective your docents are wonderful they're very knowledgeable they are they certainly know their their stories and the background is so interesting especially the Quaker background and how it they were so influenced by their religion that they were very Fierce abolitionists so yes it's uh it's wonderful the the buildings uh being able to see it I feel like I've walked back in time people should come because we have a real varied experience for them um we have got a wonderful historical exhibit in in the museum where you see actual documentation that people had and tell stories about actual Freedom Seekers who came here about work that was done we have the farm and and that is so important we have the history of agriculture in this state right here and it's beautiful we have 90 Acres that you can walk around we have Trails we you have a for children we have a storybook walk that Tucker does we change those three times a year and then of course we have the historic house which is not a mansion it's it's a house that people actually lived in and you can come and see that and see the way people really did live see the way a house the way a family really change their environment and changed their their home over the years we all do it we all make changes in our houses and this is a living structure from 1790s to the 1960s really so you know there's there's history there's agriculture there's exercise and it's beautiful and you can picnic [Music] thank you 00:00:12.350 --> 00:00:13.789 align:start position:0% 00:00:13.789 --> 00:00:13.799 align:start position:0% 00:00:13.799 --> 00:00:14.570 align:start position:0% 00:00:14.570 --> 00:00:18.109 align:start position:0% 00:00:18.109 --> 00:00:19.910 align:start position:0% 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