6310
Georgetown Pike •
McLean,
VA 22101 • 703-442-7557
A visit to the Claude Moore
Colonial Farm is a visit to another world ...the world
of an 18th Century family living on a small,
low-income farm just prior to the Revolutionary War.
Available at
the Farm's GateHouse Shop or Purchase online $7.95 each
Abigail
Jones thinks she is 11-years-old, but she isn’t
exactly sure. She knows a few letters but she can’t read.
She and her family live during the Colonial Period shortly
before the American Revolution. Their lives are hard; they
live at a level common to most ordinary people in the 18th
century. Their house has a dirt floor and mud and wattle chimney.
Abigail is the oldest child in the family and her mother depends
on her way too much. Mama was raised in an artisan family
as an only child and is ill-prepared to be the wife of a poor
tobacco farmer in Virginia, bearing one child after the other.
The family lives a harsh existence, by our standards. But
the hard work and tedium are occasionally relieved by the
Market Fair! Abigail and one of her brothers become apprenticed
in different trades; for Abigail it means escape.
Diane
Leatherman was one of the early Claude Moore Colonial Farm
“wives” at the time of this country’s bicentennial
in the 1970s. As farm wife, she often brought her children
to work with her where they portrayed members of the “Farm
family”. She has had several other careers in the 20th
century including writing her first historical fiction for
children, Rebecca, A Maryland Farm Girl, published in 2002,
and illustrated by Raya Bodnarchuk.
For additional
information, please contact The Bounty Project, Claude Moore
Colonial Farm at (703)847-0710 or emailbounty@1771.org.
We accept purchase orders from educational institutions. Volume
sales are also available.
Book
Details:
ISBN 0-9665861-2-3
72 pages (dimensions 8.5x5.5 inches) paperback edition
published by The Bounty Project
[1. Historical Fiction 2. Middle Grade Novel 3. 18th century
children]
First Edition
