Lets Ride

Slanted Wayside Exhibit:
Horse Mounting Block
327 words / Total Audio Description: 1 minute, 49 seconds

Site Information
149 words / 49 seconds

This is an audio description of an interpretive sign titled Let’s Ride. The sign is divided into 2 parts. On the left is an angled graphic panel measuring 1 foot wide (0.3 meter) by 1 foot tall (0.3 meter). On the right is an audio speaker with push buttons and two solar panels. All parts are set within an angled black metal frame with two legs that raise the sign 3 feet (1 meter) off the ground. To the left of the sign are 3 half-circular, concrete steps with square end posts. This is a horse mounting block. The mounting block is 4 feet (1.2 meters) wide by 3 feet (0.9 meters) deep by 2 feet (0.6 meters) tall. Each step is 6 inches (x meters) high by 1 foot (x meters) deep and the end posts are 1 foot (0.3 meters) square by 2 feet (0.15 meters) high.

Exhibit Panel Content
138 words / 46 seconds

The title reads Let’s Ride.The graphic panel shows an illustration of a horse rider from the early 20^th century. The rider is facing the side profile of a brown horse, which is wearing a saddle and black bridle with metallic buckles. The rider is wearing a dark hat, a long green coat, and tall, black riding boots. Their left foot is hooked into the stirrup, with both hands holding the reins, as if they are about to pull themselves onto the horse’s back. The rider’s right foot is positioned on the top of the mounting block, a gray, half-moon shaped steppingstone with three levels.

Dark text at the top of the panel reads:

When the Lockkeeper’s House was a public restroom in the early 1900s, travelers used this mounting block to get on and off their horses.

Tactile Model
40 words / 13 seconds

On the lower left side of this graphic panel, an 8-inch by 6.45-inch (20-cm by 16.3-cm) bronze tactile shows the form of the mounting block. Feel the rounded shape of each step.

Below the tactile, raised letters read:
Mounting block

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