(Alberta, Michigan) – Have you ever been to a 150th birthday party? Michigan Technological University’s Ford Center and Forest in Alberta, Mich., is holding one this month in honor of Alberta Village’s founder and the Ford Center’s namesake, Henry Ford.
Henry Ford’s 150th birthday is July 30. The party—open to the public—is this Saturday, July 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ford Center in Alberta. Festivities include free rides in Model T Fords, a Ford car show featuring antique, classic and modern models, free admission to the Sawmill Museum and a self-guided tree trail through the site’s majestic forest.
There’s even a birthday Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/150thBDayCelebrationHenryFordInAlberta
“And no birthday party would be complete without cake,” says Kari Price, educational program coordinator and manager of the Ford Center. Additional food will also be available.
The Flivver Car Club from Menominee, Mich., is bringing eight working Model T Fords to give rides around the village of Alberta. The car show is open to any Ford from 1908 to 2014, in any stage of restoration.
The Sawmill Museum features exhibits that tell the story of Alberta, the center of Henry Ford’s little-known lumber empire in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as well as exhibits about the lumbering industry in the UP and Michigan Tech’s development of the site as a forestry education and research forest, tourist attraction and conference center after Ford donated the village of Alberta and 1,400 acres of surrounding timberland to the university in 1954.
Why did Henry Ford get into the lumbering business? For the rest of the story, see http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2013/july/story93322.html.
For more information about the birthday celebration at Alberta, contact Kari Price at kalprice@mtu.edu or(906) 524-6181.
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