Exploring Atalaya Castle on The Beach - Huntington State Park South Carolina / Brookgreen Gardens
Atalaya Castle & Brookgreen Gardens
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today's adventure begins by crossing
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over this bridge this very marshy area
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as the recording of this tuesday
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january 25th
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2022
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i am heading over to
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well outside of myrtle beach almost said
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myrtle beach south of myrtle beach
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south carolina is huntington beach
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state park not to be confused with
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huntington beach california
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which i am very familiar with in orange
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county
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this is this is taken after a different
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namesake
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i believe
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it's right over this bridge welcome
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everyone
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adam the woo here
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behind me is adelaide castle
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in front of me
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piping hot caffeinated beverage right
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there in the tree
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gonna learn some things today i'm
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inviting you
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to join me
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shall you
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this building the structure right on the
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beach
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was built by a gentleman by the name of
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archer
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huntington hence the name huntington
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beach state park not to be confused with
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him beach california
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for his wife anna who had some medical
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conditions and this was her
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winter home if you can believe it
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a massive castle built right here on the
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water designated a national historic
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landmark in 1992
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adelaide is the former winter home of
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renowned sculptor
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anna hyatt huntington and her husband
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who built this archer milter milton
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huntington
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a well-known scholar a businessman and a
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poet
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primarily it was a home and working
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studio of a famous sculptor secondarily
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because of its moorish influenced
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architecture
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soon after the 1923 marriage in new york
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and was diagnosed with tuberculocus
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in seeking treatment for her illness the
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huntington saw a warmer climate spin
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their winters and that's where
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this
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came into play
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that's the cliff notes quick
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not the best
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red version of the info
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paraphrasing feels so good out here
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probably about
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42 degrees perhaps
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oh my gosh
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look at this
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okay
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this is pretty dang awesome
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impressive
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most impressive here's the castle map
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entrance would be here that's where i'm
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standing
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and there are lots of different numbers
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and points
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stating
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all the different areas
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there's eight dollars to get into the
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state park do not know if there's a
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separate admission
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for here as well
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but to find out oh here we go
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general admission is two dollars per
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person
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and you can do an audio tour for five
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dollars i'm just gonna do a self-guided
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the visitor center is open daily from
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nine to four so make sure you get here
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before 4 pm and after 9 a.m
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oh there's someone waiting right over
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there hello
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i didn't realize there was anyone in
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here just like the tree that i was
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around
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i don't know four or five days ago no
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beverages are allowed so i have to
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discard
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she let me know that finish up my coffee
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and
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put it in that trash receptacle water is
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allowed
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but no no piping hot caffeinated
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beverages so see if you can hear how
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good this last slurp is
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all right paid the two dollar
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extra so total eight dollars to get in
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the state park
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two dollars
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to go through adelaide castle and
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i was talking to the lady at the gift
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shop very kind with her information she
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was saying that this is not
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state funded the park is but the
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separate two dollars this is self-funded
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and what she was saying
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they get no money from the state and you
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can leave donations too so two dollars
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but you could also leave a little bit
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more
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for a donation and buy merchandise so i
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will be exiting
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through the gift shop
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and i'll probably buy a magnet or a
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t-shirt or something i always
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have way too many t-shirts but
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you could always use another one here is
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the castle map kind of like i showed out
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front
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so i'll be able to to give a little
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little tour based on this
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so i'm kind of like over here near 16
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and they have
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put numbers up
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okay this is really good
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because this helps you coincide
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with where you are so number 16
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for example shown here
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and then you just look over here i am
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near the foyer
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for your
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sun room
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a secretary's library
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she also let me know that i am the only
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one in here at the moment there were two
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other guests that were just walking out
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as i walked in
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okay i really like how much info
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anna hyatt huntington was born
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to alpheus and audella
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bieb hyatt
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back in
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1876.
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she was influenced by her sister
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harriet's
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sculpture talent her father's career in
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paleontology and zoology
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i think two dollar extra admission in
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here
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is a little too inexpensive
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the site possesses
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national significance and commemoration
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of the history of the united states of
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america in 1992 this was placed here
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the national park service
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and a lot of times it's not even
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referred to as a castle it's just
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referred to as
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adelaide you can even hear the waves
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crashing
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off on the shore
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now from this lower window oh look at
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this how this window
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closes up and you can put like a big
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plank of wood there to lock the window
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the beach is right down that path
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if i have the ability to go up on an
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upper level
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might be able to see the beach
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originally had a door which led to a
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small patio overlooking the ocean
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a favorite spot for them to enjoy their
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morning coffee
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however you're not allowed to bring
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coffee
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in here anymore and recreate the
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enjoyment the huntington's did
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but that
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is a different subject matter this must
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have been the door
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leading out to the ocean the wooden
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strips
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on the wall near the ceiling were
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originally used to hang tapestries
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shown up near the roof line you can
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faintly see them
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looks as if there's a couple right there
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that are
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kind of worn down
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oh no i'm incorrect
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right here
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look at those wooden strips are still
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there wow
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all these years later
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look at that
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you can see here the
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brick is kind of
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separating just a little bit of
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foundation shifting the dining room
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contained wrought iron chairs designed
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by anna herself
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and when the huntingtons left atalaya
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they gave them to a former employee this
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would be the dining room
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and a lot of fireplaces through here
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probably getting into the kitchen area
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number 20.
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right there on the wall
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would be the food service room according
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according to this pamphlet the food
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service room
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a lot of fireplaces
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and now about to peek into the kitchen
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number 23.
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it contained two
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coal burning stoves a gas powered
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refrigerator a large ice box and a large
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hooded grill
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meals were prepared not just for the
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huntington's but for their large staff
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as well
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now you can see the burn marks there
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from the stove
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a little stove hole
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some pipes over here
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or relics of the past you just think of
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the
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this place was a beehive of activity at
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one point people living their lives
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cooking meals eating food enjoying the
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day
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so fascinating history is so fascinating
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the ice box down here
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you go from this one main kitchen room
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into the storage area the pantry
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these wooden shelves here
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showing some showing some time of what
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time has done
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you can see this overlooks out to the
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parking area
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and into the ice box
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make sure this doesn't get locked in
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this is the ice box door
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okay there's no lock on it they have
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removed
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the lock
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this is where the ice box was say walk
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in ice box had a door which opened from
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the outside a block and tackle was
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mounted outside the window to haul 300
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pound blocks of ice
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brought over from georgetown
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georgetown south carolina that is there
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are quite a few
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different georgetowns probably the most
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famous
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outside washington dc this is a
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different georgetown
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and that probably opens to the outside
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that little like wooden
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door that goes up there
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i feel like this is like something to
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have a horror film star if someone
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closed that door a picture of this kind
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of creature right i don't know if i've
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ever seen a place with this many
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fireplaces
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i've walked over into another room
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this peeks out onto the court into the
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courtyard
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quite an impressive
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courtyard that's the main little walkway
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i walked in
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when i paid the two dollar very
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inexpensive mission for this history
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imagine being in here living in here
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you got this whole huge hallway
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your friend would be all the way down
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there and be like hey
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what do you want for dinner
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this is simply labeled storage
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so you got storage in here with the
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little
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cubby holes
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and then the door shuts
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so this door would shut
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and there is like a external storage
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so a lot of storage space
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they've removed all the latches and
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locks
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so no one goes into the storage area
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gets stuck
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annie mckinnon was the head housekeeper
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and this was her room she arrived ahead
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of the huntington's before the season to
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get everything ready
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and to hire locals
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to take care of business around the
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around the facility before the
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huntington's arrived this is just not
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even this isn't even their main home
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as my mom would say they were living
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high on the hog
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she says that a lot
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it's kind of cute
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the laundry drying yard
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imagine having so much laundry that you
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need an entire yard
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to dry it
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there's a metal bracket right there
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little lookout tower oh these branches
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are kind of
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obscuring the pathway got to go around
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it look at this little moat
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down here
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just for the water like a little
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retention
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stream not really a boat but
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okay i don't think i can go up in the
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lookout tower but that is cool
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that is really cool look at that
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i'm doing my best
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castle stance
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i'm still the only one in here
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the outer walls of the building form a
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square with the east side facing the
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ocean within the walled structure there
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are two grassy oprah in
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inner courtyards
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living quarters consists of 30 rooms
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on three sides of the perimeter
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have one heck of a sleepover
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also notice this ramp this does not look
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like a modern addition
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this ramp appears to have been built
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back when the castle was built
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where instead of taking stairs
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you have this ramp
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the birds are so numerous i hear their
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sweet notes outside my window every
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early morning
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they're piping ever above the roar of
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the ocean
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see if we can live vicariously through
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what anna heard and felt
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of the husband archer
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he custom built a shower
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for all of his six feet five inches wow
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custom-built shower stall can you
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identify where they were
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can i identify where the shower stall
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was i think it's right here
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yeah this is the shower
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look at all these nozzles and knobs
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wow even up here
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okay yeah he's very tall
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i'm six foot three
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archer was two inches taller than i am
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good-sized bathroom good-sized shower
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especially for back in those days
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the wardrobe room
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where archer kept all his clothes so
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it's not exactly a mirror image this
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side this room is huge
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this is the study
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this is where you do all his work
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create his architecture design the plans
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for brook green gardens which is also
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you know just down the road wrote poetry
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he answered some correspondence
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and another fireplace
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and a bookshelf
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could this be an original bookshelf and
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notice the holes in the bottom of this
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door there
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feels like you know half a dozen to a
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dozen holes there across the door
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okay i'm going into this whole chamber
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i'm in another storage cabinet
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i don't know why i shut the door
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the studio and the pen now i have five
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monkeys chattering in the studio
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the pea fowl screaming in the yard and
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the bears crawling on the other side of
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the sculpture i call it an embarrassment
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of riches
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but others might not think so that was a
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letter she wrote to her friend edith
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hall plimpton
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back in 1936 here's some of her works
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there were some monkeys in this room
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just think about that
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go back in time in your mind
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that's what i'm doing my mind is going
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back in time to the 1930s
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got some animals in here
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sculpting them
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being creative getting the creative
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juices of flowing with the beach
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within ear view
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and the outdoor studio adjacent to the
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indoor studio as an artist
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and a much preferred natural sunlight to
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sculpt by
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she worked here in our outdoor studio
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when the weather was accommodating when
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it was not the adjacent indoor studio
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with a massive 25-foot skylight and
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large windows
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made a fine
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substitute
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you know yeah yeah i don't feel like
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being in the outdoor studio i think i'm
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gonna go to the indoor studio which this
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both of the studios is the size of a
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small home and going back out into one
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of the two
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main courtyards with the palm trees
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yeah i could almost picture this being
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open and you know mr ed sticking his
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head out hello
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that's a that's an old reference
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after mr huntington's passing at 55 most
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of the furniture into the house was sent
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to the huntington home in new york city
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mrs huntington
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passed out of the connecticut home in 73
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in tribute to them
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adelaide arts and crafts festivals hair
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hilt held here
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every september now here's the stable
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you could see
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got some benches and stuff in there and
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the stable
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was home
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to some riding horses polly and bob old
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stevie lived here
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an old hopeless stallion
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who she eventually nursed back to health
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and made a sculpture of
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right there
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look at that i believe those sculptures
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are across the way
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at another property i might go over
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there too and show some of them now
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going towards the bear pins
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bear pins
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she only used live models for her
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sculpturing
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these pens were used for temporary
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housing for bears
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that's interesting
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you don't see that today that would not
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fly today
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yeah i got some bears
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let's sculpt them
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can't you just use a photo no no i need
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a real
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i need some real bears
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duh bears
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sorry
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wow i mean i'm just imagining
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right over here
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live bears in here
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incredible to think about i can't even
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wrap my head around that and then the
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dog kennels
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plenty of room to run around for the
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dogs
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they had several of them
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echo
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which was anna's greyhound and kelpie
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one of her scottish deerhounds also
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served as models
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here's some photos of both of them
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this must be archer
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holding up a cute little pup
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yeah plenty of room to run around in
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going here with a frisbee with the dog
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so the frisbee around
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they have frisbees back then
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what you're hearing is an air
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conditioner behind me the garage is now
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used as the gift shop so i'll go in
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there in a moment the oyster shocking
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room
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this counter here would be used to shuck
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oysters
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this was the garage
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and one last facade over here i'll show
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before number 39 oh
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so here's this metal door
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because of the heat
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we're burning trash and the garbage
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it's kind of like a garbage dump and
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this garage would house this which they
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used to pull the animals the monkeys the
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dogs and a macaw along that's what they
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stored in the garage and here are a
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couple t-shirts they have t-shirts and
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hats oh here's a close-up version of one
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of those chimney tops that i was kind of
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zooming in on just a little bit more and
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there's also a lot of photos of
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the family and take a look at this old
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photographs of back in the day when it
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was being but just been finished being
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built there's the tower there in the
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middle look at this
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old classic car alert down there and
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there's a view from the top of the tower
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you're seeing the water over in the
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distance
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yeah that is
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pretty dang cool to see these old relic
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photos and talking to the employee in
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the gift shop she was letting me know to
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go across the street because most of the
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works of anna are over there that were
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created here
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and then they built the gardens across
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the street to display those works
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and she also said a common misconception
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was
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that she married her husband for money
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but the fact was when they met
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she was already one of the most
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wealthiest women
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in the united states and he hired her
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to create a bust for him
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to create a sculpture and then they fell
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in love and the rest is history
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fascinating
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just to show the proximity
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right over those dunes is the beach
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and castle
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right over there
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past those picnic tables
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starting to rain a little bit seeing a
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little drizzle there across the
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windshield
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going back over this bridge
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over to the gardens
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arrive now at brook green gardens
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more or less just right across the
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street
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right here on brook green drive
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admission to the gardens twenty dollars
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ten times the price of going to the
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castle where the sculptures were created
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but the twenty dollars will also give
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you a seven day ticket
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however i'm only gonna be in here for
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today
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but if you you know we're visiting for a
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while wanted to come back for the course
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of a week the 20 covers all that
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here's a general layout of the land here
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property map
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i would basically just be looking for
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all the sculptures that she created over
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there at the castle
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i try to pinpoint a few key ones and
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there's some little miniatures here
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recreation of georgetown south carolina
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also should mention that she was not the
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only sculpture that has her work here in
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the gardens a lot of it is but others
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derrick werner
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and behind this glass are some chairs
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from adelaide castle
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in fact you could see this very chair
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in that photograph
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of the
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huntington's
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with their dogs that's the same chair
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and right up there on the beaches on the
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beach is the the castle scene from the
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dunes
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right there that's pretty cool that
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chair
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same chair all right this is what i was
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looking for archer and anna hyatt
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sculpture garden founded 1931.
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right here in the middle of this
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fountain
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well technically it's not a fountain
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it's just a body of water because i
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don't see any moving water
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appears to be one roman goddess diana of
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the chase by anna huntington
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right over there this very magnificent
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tree
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and also there are two lions one there
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and appears to be a golf cart about to
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pull through the other lion
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also by anna
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made over there at that castle that i
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was just at
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lion protects its own part of the world
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has revealed on the globes
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between the lion's paws
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here is a jaguar animate
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and this little walkway through here is
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called live oak alley
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they got some workers out
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they might be taking down lights
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through live oak alley
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now see this was not by the huntingtons
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this is another artist called daniel
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chester french
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down at the end of this walkway is
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pegasus
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i'm not sure the artist on this
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i was thinking it was going to be a lot
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of the huntington's sculptures but it
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appears as if a wide variety of artists
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are featured
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through here and this one is the largest
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sculpture at brook green and took the
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longest to create nearly nine years
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and a couple over here as well
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this one's very reminiscent of the
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clawed bell one in front of knott's
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berry farm
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oh prospector
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with the mule
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this one's by carl
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ginny wine made of aluminum
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yeah very similar to
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what claude bell created obviously
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not the same artist but
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see if this one is
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okay i found one i believe this is the
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the horse that she nursed back to health
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in the barn there at the castle
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if i remember correctly
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so her work is just scattered all over
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the property
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not really in one specific place as i
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can tell
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it was her medium of choice
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to use aluminum
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she was the first sculpture to use
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aluminum back in 1932. look at that back
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over this window now with more objects
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from adelaide
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these phones down here
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the great dane gate was the original
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entrance to
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brook green gardens the gate was
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designed by anna huntington
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the gate is gone
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but that is the great dane gate at least
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a photograph of it there
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oh because there's great danes up on the
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pillars okay i asked another employee
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and they said back in the offner
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museum
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they had a small sculpture go past these
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peacocks
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they had a small sculpture of what is in
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new york
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the joan of arc sculpture that she
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created now inside the building they had
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some smaller sculptures not every
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sculpture is life-size or
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gargantuan
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some little smaller ones are only like
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two or three feet tall here's where a
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lot of
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the bears
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that were kept in those pins over at the
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castle
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you know modeled after our as well as
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the monkeys that are through here behind
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these glass cases
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there are a few of them
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but they are doing an exhibit
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in a few weeks so a lot of those have
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been moved over to the new exhibit which
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has not opened yet so i was also talking
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to the very kind lady inside the little
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museum area
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that all the little bears and monkeys
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and things
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that was sculpted over at the castle and
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then brought here she was saying the
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smaller versions for example
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i had assumed that joan of arc the
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huntington famous huntington joan of arc
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sculpture was here on property that is
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in new york
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but they had a smaller version and there
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as stated a new exhibit is being
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constructed which i will not be here for
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in a few weeks it will have its grand
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opening
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and that smaller maquette she called it
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is going to be of joan of arc
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was in there it's going to be on display
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so
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pretty neat
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didn't realize that it was in new york
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city but makes it very probably most
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famous work
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by her
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arguably the most famous work by
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mrs huntington all right there it is
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right here so starting january 29th
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which i will not be here i will not be
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in this area then they are going to be
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the american
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animal ear the life and art of anna
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hyatt
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it appears as if it's going to be right
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here in this front galley gallery and
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they're in there
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they're in there working on it i believe
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oh there's some bears right there and
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peeking through the window i believe
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that's the joan of arc sculpture right
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there look when i get to new york city
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definitely going to check this out it's
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over on riverside
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full size
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created right here
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and that's going to do it for today
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is over