The Old Fashioned Way Ep02 'Wayside Inn Grist Mill' 

Thoroughly enjoyed the video of the mill. Thank you so much.

Very well explained.. I always wondered how a gristmill and waterwheel worked.

Brilliant stuff!!!

My grandpa was the caretaker there for about 20 years! 50-60's

I remember visiting my Mom's aunts and uncles in 1959 on their farms in Illinois. They ground their own wheat and corn, milked their cows, and churned their own butter back then. Cooking oil was rendered from the slaughtered livestock. About the only things bought in from commercial producers were salt, sugar and a few misc. items. Water was hand-pumped up from shallow wells wherever it was needed. There were even hand pumps on the sink boards. Some didn't even have electricity. When it got dark, you went to bed. Fresh from the field corn, potatoes, corn muffins, still warm eggs, and still warm milk, and fried chicken that had been butchered just an hour prior. It was sooooo good! Today, we've traded outstanding quality and flavor for efficiency and the economy of scale. Are we better off with the engineered pap that passes for food today?

Great presentation and explanation! Thanks

Former resident of the Pine Lakes neighborhood in Sudbury.Wonderful story!

Interesting this miller doesn’t use a damsel in this mill to agitate the shoe during operation. Hope he continues to use very clean grain so the grain flow from the shoe continues to flow evenly giving a good consistent final product. Good luck there and best in the future.

Very nice and interesting !!!

Please show us the Henry ford knife gifted to one of the children of the builders of the water mill. It was mentioned by another channel. It was returned to the mill once the owner had passed on.

Just a gentle old-fashioned admonition: gentlemen still take off their hats indoors.

nice show thank you for iy john

Lovely place.

Note the brass scoop, previously they were made of wood. No sparks because of all the dust in the mill. I saw no cats.

I grew up in Sudbury!

He said he was using French Buhr stones but conglomerate millstones were shown.

The mill was old fashioned but the bakery was not at all. I was expecting a wood fired oven and so on. Fun to watch anyways. 😀

water rubs those rocks to make corn dust by dam