Estonian Open Air Museum

This guide to the Estonian Open Air Museum in Tallinn centers on the Sutlepa windmill, raised on Vormsi Island in 1748, and the everyday problem it was built to solve: grain that will not grind itself, and wind that never blows from one direction all day. You'll hear how Baltic carpenters answered with the post mill, an entire wooden building balanced on a single vertical post nicknamed the mother tree, muscled around by hand with a beam called a tailpole. Three more windmills stand nearby, each its own answer to the same puzzle, worth comparing side by side.