If you are ever in Shelburne, VT, go to the Shelburne Museum. An heiress to the Domino Sugar fortune (with a Vanderbilt as a relative too) created this museum in 1950 to preserve the historical buildings and also to show folk art from the area. It is a beautiful setting with flower gardens and huge lawns. There are over 40 buildings housing both permanent and touring exhibits. My favorites were the old buildings, especially the lighthouse from Lake Champlain, the stencil home that was built in 1810 and had three stencilled rooms that were mostly original, the rooms from the Park Avenue apartment of the founder, and the Ticonderoga steamship (on dry land) from 1909. The round barn was fun too. We spent three hours there and needed three more.
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