richard roberts high here at the village of the nation good to see you again it's been a while since we've had a chance to come down to the beautiful village here in this part of peter's township you know this is the one of the original settlements of peter's township down here off of an easter road this today we're filming at historical rights church which goes back to eight hundred forty six originally and so it's been here quite a long time not this is not the original building it was destroyed by an earthquake of all things or tornado or something like that combination back in the eighteenth fifties and it was revealed here back in the early one thousand nine hundred but it's it's a busy place you have a traffic on road but this is part of the central part of the village here you know we've talked about what constitutes a village in colonial america and that was a school a church i tavern and a store and we have all of those things and a train that you can hear in the background we have all those things right here in venetia and so we interview them one by one we did the country store in about six weeks ago the new owners up there and and that was a great time the church and then the home the parsonage was built a year later when the church and then the school on the other side was built in like one hundred twenty two twenty three twenty four and the school is now a community center we've done plenty of interviews over there with armor grego who does are senior perspective and all the activities that go on over there that they're training club on the third floor one of the girl scout troops meets there the peters township rowing club  has their headquarters there and also the senior center here in the village of an isa so lots of activity over there in the community center right behind that is is the peters baseball association  little league field one of the little league fields i think it's for the seven year olds and back one of the cameramen here today used to play there when he was seven years old and we took some footage down there took the camera down there and says wow they've done a lot of work since on and they're just fantastic they did a lot of work on the field they've got a new electronic scoreboard that solar powered batting cages up and then of course the the deck on the top that has a snack shop in so it's very very cool where we're proud to have them here in the village of any show it's just really is kind of a more than just the baseball field it really is a social gathering point for so many of our young families and and we're glad for that little bit beyond the tree line here and in front of the original cabin as the right house that goes back to the eighteen hundreds when they outgrew the little log cabin they built a home right in front of victorian home that is now the right house and the museum of western expansion and so it's all right here in the village so lots of lots of things to see what are the new additions to to our village is the free library now we don't want to take anything away from the peters library that is right in the central core there are really the library in peter's township up there beside the minister building is really i think the center of peter's township i've just been a resident here for the past three years but there's so much activity goes on just in that little square there so we don't want to take anything away from them but we do have a new branch down here perhaps it's got a little free library we took some footage of that and it's in memory of one of and when you have additions of books that you have completed you open up the door put those in there take something out and and bring it back it's all free it is so complimentary we just ask that you do return some kind of book if you take one out of the keep it as long as you need and and then that just kind of keeps the library going our children already in the community have already come over there and they've taken books out and have put in stuffed animals  and all kind of things in there just as a deposit for the books that they've taken but they're getting that that general concept so so that's kind of a neat addition here to our little village we're going to talking about soon in our next episode not today about one of the other asked when the other places of interest here in the village is the open restaurant again to be a village you have to have a restaurant a pub the open  satisfies that requirement here they've been open three years now and just just incredible german italian food it's a b y o b place so you know you bring your own wine there but the celebration for the open and for the folks there is that they've opened up a second restaurant up in the mcmurry area the suburb of the village of any show here off a center church road and so in a future segment we're going to go and visit the new folks up there bluegrass band so we do some some great great stuff here but we've had some beethoven played up there with a cellist and so that was very fine music too but we do just exactly this we put up tables and and ombre was we have lunch made by the ladies of the just a variety last year we featured a banjo player that was third in the nation and greg that came and played with us the dempsey town ramblers and and he is just phenomenal he's also now a med student and university of pittsburgh in oakland and we wish him well there but that happens every wednesday here and all the other activities that go on here in the village for the summer we enjoy the the peters baseball association it brings a lot of tourists to our little village here and we always appreciate just the sea and all the stuff that's going on in july right here at the church will be our version of vacation bible school and what we always do we make it like an open market not so much like a farmer's market but a market of artisans of crosman such common and do their jewelry and pottery making and glassblowing this the theme for this year is egypt from prison t palace and it talks about the great story of joseph in the maysan technicolor dreamcoat and so this whole camp is will be turned into a village with the chance that all look like you know the marketplace in downtown for the week of july the tenth through the fourteenth so we hope to reach out to one of our one of our hopes is that those families that are coming to play ball the seven year olds that are playing over there on the field maybe the rest of the family is one to do something else on the come over there and and be a part of the whole village concept here with campfires and everything else so it's exciting to be in the village and invite you to come back any time we're going to take  a jump in and look at the historic church on the inside it really is really the best example of colonial the colonial church in peter's township and i will take a peek at that right now but the inside of wright's   unique and rachel came and were given land here there log cabin is across the street to build and seven hundred sixty four and so it's a great great history to be a part of here the original church was damaged by a tornado or slash earthquake or something that was very rare in this part of the country but blew the top off the old church which is really behind here over with the old cemetery is and the is the story is though that a neighboring baptist church raised enough money and provided enough labor and they had the roof on in like a week or something so but when that church was rebuilt over here on the main colonial it doesn't look like a church built in one thousand nine hundred two it looks like something built in the eighteen hundreds and so to me i'd say you know let's go out and change a cornerstone to make it look like it's something out of wayne's burger because that's that's the look that has churches in the twenty's were not built to this architecture and so this is from an earlier time but the kind of cool thing is a gives us an opportunity to do some really theme weddings here some colonial theme weddings i've only been here for three years my first year here we did only one wedding and then we started to get the news out about the the look in architecture here we did nine last year and have about as many on the books for this year so that's kind of fun if you like this colonial look my idea is to incorporate the right house in the museum across the street in do colonial receptions you know folks are getting big bucks to do those kind of things plus it brings a lot of tourists to this part of peter's township too so that's kind of fun but if you see  maria from the sound of music and so elizabeth came in gave a great concert here and we did the place was packed and folks in the balcony and she did a wonderful musical night right here and we then continue that tradition here too with our concerts in the summertime brown bag concerts every wednesday at noon starting june the eighth all the way through june and july but we have i call it different packages we have here when we have carriage lamps that are very symbolic of colonial america that we attach to the pews and we do those for weddings and for christmas and even for the day of pentecost this is our pentecost package everything dressed in red so that's kind of a fun thing if you're going to market a church where but it's a small congregation we've got but a growing congregation with a growing spirit two very historic to be sure  but always looking forward to the future as as we leave here you may get a shot of some of the mission opportunities that are going on in the back we do flood buckets and sewing kits for communities all over the world in we're taking a mission trip eight of us this summer to go to the outer banks of south carolina to some of the to the by use out there that have been paid pretty hard over the last number of years by floods and also recovering from hurricanes from years ago in the poverty areas of south carolina so we'll be doing that in july and and that's really exciting and all the fundraising that goes along with that but any time you're down in this part of  peter's township than here what we call the village you know be thinking about all the what everything that goes into the village and support the restaurants stop at the country store you know stop here at the church if you see the  tables what my hope was and it does happen is that while we're performing out on the front stairs with live bluegrass music or contemporary music or even classical music that folks see us they wave they'll stop come in and get a lunch for five dollars and come and eat with the rest of us out there or you come for baseball or whatever brings you down here to the village invite you to come and and enjoy and remember us  and tell other folks about us too so that's i guess that's all we have for this time and again we will be senior again real soon the most talked about our restaurant here in the village the open restaurants been open for three years their new location bank this is rich robert the again