The Colonial Living Experience:

June 2006

On the weekend of June 10 & 11, a dozen brave souls pitched their tents in the 18th century for a weekend of colonial camping. Below is a record of the weekend, as well as photographs of the experience.

Here we are!

Food: Saturday breakfast: oatmeal sausage coffee cocoa Saturday dinner: johnny cakes salad fish roasted on a plank butter we churned Saturday supper: roasted chicken pottage (boiled radishes, turnips, and parsnips) bread Sunday breakfast: corn mush fried eggs sausage coffee cocoa

Fish roasting on a plank

Churning butter

Skills learned:

Writing with a quill pen	We cooked our meals over an open fire using iron pots, Dutch ovens, skillets, spits and planks. We dipped the candles (made of beeswax and tallow) that we needed for the evening, and churned the butter that we used for cooking. The men hewed mightily at a large log that they split in order to make a new shaving horse for the 18th century farm site. We also played some 18th century games, learned how to spin wool, started a fire with flint and steel, and practiced our handwriting using quill pens and oak gall ink.	Setting up tents

 

"There was not a thing we did not like."	Smoking meat
		"The planning and organization was very well done."

"We have already recommended [this program] to everyone we talk with - it was great and we would do it again (and again)."

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