The Colonial Living Experience:

June 2007

On the weekend of June 9 & 10, twenty people became members of the eighteenth century. Below is a record of the weekend, as well as photographs of the experience.

Here we are!

 

Food: Saturday Dinner roast chicken vegetable pottage wheat bread fresh-churned butter Saturday Supper fish roasted on a plank Johnny cakes (corn) salad with fresh-picked greens apple pie Sunday Breakfast oatmeal sausage	cooking over the fire
	churning butter

Skills learned:

sawing wood with a bow saw		writing with a goose quill pen
	We: Dipped the candles that we needed for the night Churned the butter for dinner Set up our own tents to sleep in Dug a pit for the "necessary" Made a new maul (wooden hammer) using a saw and drawknife Played 18th century games like Quiots, Darts and Cup-and-Ball Bound books using waxed linen thread Wrote in our books with quill pens dipped in ox gall ink Carded and spun wool into yarn Dyed wool yarn exciting colors with natural dyes Made herbal remedies and cosmetics... and tried some of them! Hoed weeds and planted squash in the corn field
carding wool		dipping candles

 

"Thanks... for a wonderful weekend!"	brushing our teeth with 18th century toothpaste

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