New Brunswick
Aug. 10-11, 2012









Kings Landing is a living history site on the St. John River a short distance west of Frederickton. It portrays farming and village life in the early 19th century in New Brunswick.









A horse walking a treadmill to power a saw for cutting logs. I guess you could call this a "one-horsepower" saw.








Kings Landing has a program for children to spend several days experiencing life in the 19th century. These girls, who are gathered for lunch, are part of that program.








Our next stop was Magnetic Hill, which is in Moncton. Supposedly, things roll uphill here. The procedure is to drive to white post, which appears to be downhill from where I was standing to take this picture. Then put your vehicle in neutral and take your foot off the brake. The vehicle then rolls back "uphill", as Ed is demonstrating with his Roadtrek. It is an optical illusion induced by the way the trees have grown. Standing where I took the picture, you would swear that the post is at a lower altitude, but in fact, it is ten feet higher. Although it looks like Ed is rolling uphill, he is in fact rolling downhill.