This is a typical Moravian style (Triebel designed the plan, I believe) vegetable garden. From what I gather, families planned out their gardens in drawings. The Old Salem village has used some of those plans, spanning over 100 years, to re-create the early gardens created by the Moravians. I guess what struck me is that these were settlers from Germany and what is now Czech areas, but they seem to have hit the ground running. The town is beautiful by any standards, old or new. Check out this garden! I love this kind of stuff.
(Interesting side note: The gardens rows are diagonal instead of straight.)
One of the street views.
So we had lunch today in a two story tavern. No electric lights anywhere in the building, only handmade candles in lanterns. I had to use the flash to brighten this photo because it was so dark in this room. We were upstairs in one of the sitting rooms. The food was beyond great! It was so good, in fact, that we're going back tonight for dinner. Hehe. The entire village area has candle lit windows, and we want to see it at night. So, off we'll go!
Oh look! It's us! 
This is what I had for lunch today at the tavern. I think I'll tell you about it in a bit. Very, very awesome chicken pie, Moravian style. Quite possible the best I've ever had. Sorry Pearl.
This has nothing to do with Old Salem or the Moravians. I just like it. Hehe, someone loved their public education so much they felt compelled to express their feelings through graffiti. I sort of like to think a group of public school teachers snuck out one night and did this. I mean, it's all spelled correctly. C'mon. It had to be teachers.
Gentle Readers, we will continue our Flora and Fauna of the Carolinas today with another plant identification. Can you identify this beautiful bush? Pomegranate!!
This building is pretty nondescript....until you learn that....
It's the second white building that you also see in this photo taken the year after the Civil War ended. At that time, Old Salem was still old. The first building you see is, I believe, the tavern where we had lunch. 
This is another photo that is probably meaningless until you realize that it's a printers case that stores the different letters for the press. Bit O' Trivia: This is where the term Upper and Lower case came from.
I don't know these gals. I just thought they were cute. All of the people in this village are dressed from this period. I came very close to buying me a bonnet.
This is the Moravian Cemetery (didn't get a good photo of the church, but WOW!) All of the occupants of this cemetery are buried according to their gender and marital status, not according to family groups. All the headstones are flat and equal in size and all face East. One of the headstones that we read was from a death in 1732 and the woman was 99 years old. I would think in that day and age, she was a medical marvel!
PDaddy and I both thoroughly enjoyed our tour through Old Salem today. The weather has been perfect, even if a bit rainy, but we had so much fun today! We took the strollway from our inn to the Old Salem village where we started off with the Toy Museum tour. Being unable to photograph inside the museum, I can't convey to you how neat this place was. Words do not do it justice and to simply say that it was a toy museum doesn't begin to come close to describing it. It was amazing, and we must've looked like kids in a candy store, er...toy store...in there. You can't touch any of the displays which made me gladiolas that the kids weren't there to see it. DaddyP and I both agreed that taking kids to a toy museum (and one such as this) would be like showing a donut to a cop and telling him not to touch it. Ya know? Loved it!
This building is pretty nondescript....until you learn that....
It's the second white building that you also see in this photo taken the year after the Civil War ended. At that time, Old Salem was still old. The first building you see is, I believe, the tavern where we had lunch. 
This is another photo that is probably meaningless until you realize that it's a printers case that stores the different letters for the press. Bit O' Trivia: This is where the term Upper and Lower case came from.
I don't know these gals. I just thought they were cute. All of the people in this village are dressed from this period. I came very close to buying me a bonnet.
This is the Moravian Cemetery (didn't get a good photo of the church, but WOW!) All of the occupants of this cemetery are buried according to their gender and marital status, not according to family groups. All the headstones are flat and equal in size and all face East. One of the headstones that we read was from a death in 1732 and the woman was 99 years old. I would think in that day and age, she was a medical marvel!
PDaddy and I both thoroughly enjoyed our tour through Old Salem today. The weather has been perfect, even if a bit rainy, but we had so much fun today! We took the strollway from our inn to the Old Salem village where we started off with the Toy Museum tour. Being unable to photograph inside the museum, I can't convey to you how neat this place was. Words do not do it justice and to simply say that it was a toy museum doesn't begin to come close to describing it. It was amazing, and we must've looked like kids in a candy store, er...toy store...in there. You can't touch any of the displays which made me gladiolas that the kids weren't there to see it. DaddyP and I both agreed that taking kids to a toy museum (and one such as this) would be like showing a donut to a cop and telling him not to touch it. Ya know? Loved it!We spent the entire day walking the village. There are people going about activities as if it's the late 1700's, in period costumes, doing the jobs like they would've been done long ago. The Moravian history is very interesting and is something I didn't previously know much (if anything) about. Old Salem is beautiful, and of course, the streets are cobbled and brick, so it's a very quaint scene that you have with the gardens (flower and vegetable,) large trees, and Salem College surrounding the neighborhood. It's just beautiful. We visited a gunsmith (who told us a great place to eat "real Texas BBQ"..and this was before he knew we were from Texas.), a printing press/photographer, silversmith, clockmaker, and bakery. That's not to say that these were the only things we saw, oh not by a long shot! There is so much to see! At the beginning of our day, someone told us to be sure to plan a trip to the bakery for later in the day because they would be "heating up the ovens" throughout the morning. Sure enough, when we got there, we were able to see 2 old guys baking Love Feast bread (a Moravian tradition), and we bought some hot cider and baked treats and went and sat outside in the drizzle on a bench and enjoyed some tasty goodies.
DaddyP and I had lunch at the Salem Tavern. The food was out of this world, and the history of the building we were in just made it that much better. I have to tell you about my lunch. Chicken pie (double crust). This pie is full of the best chunks of chicken. Nothing else!! Just chicken! However, the savory gravy is served spooned on top of the pie, and the vegetables served on the side. I'm a chicken pie person, and THIS was chicken pie to write home about. Wow!
We heard that the tavern had a world champion fiddler/violinist playing tonight, so DaddyP wants to go check out their dinner menu. Haha. Better take my flashlight!
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