The
Colonial Living Experience:
June
2009
On
the weekend of June 6 & 7, forty people became members of the
eighteenth century. Below is a record of the weekend, as well as
photographs of the experience.
Here
we are!
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Food:
Saturday Dinner
pottage
roast chicken
1-2-3-4 cake
Saturday Supper
Johnny cakes
salad
pottage
Sunday Breakfast
oatmeal
sausage
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chickens on a spit
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churning butter
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Skills
learned:
working with a drawknife
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preparing the meal
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getting food out of the root cellar
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playing music
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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"
- Sang colonial songs
- Played 18th century games like Quiots, Darts and Cup-and-Ball
- Learned some 18th century dances
- Wrote with quill pens dipped in ox gall ink
- Carded and spun wool into yarn
- Made herbal remedies and cosmetics... and tried them!
- Walked through the surrounding woods to learn about the
plants and animals
- Hoed weeds in the corn field
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washing dishes
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working in the corn field
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catching toads!
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dipping candles
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"I
loved the time spent sharing the experience with my son.
We are still singing the songs we learned around
the campfire."
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holding a chicken
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"I
liked ...the opportunity to have a taste of what life was
like back in the 18th century. I have such a better appreciation
for the hardships that they endured."
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