By Small and Simple Things: March 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Day #6--Yorktown Victory Center

These of course are pretty out of order. Kaden dressed as a soldier above. More pics of the war camps and soldier and artillary stuff to follow. Below is a rooster from the farm which showed how most people lived and survived after the war. The rooster and chickens were Kaden and Ammons fav. They got to feed them pie dough from the nice lady making pies and cornbread in the kitchen.

It was so fun to watch this lady actually making and doing things in the kitchen. How spoiled I am!!! It looked kind of fun, but only for a day or so...

Kaden was also fascinated watching the pie progress

Dried fruits and vegetables, and salted meats all hanging in the kitchen...

This is in the soldiers' camp. They actually did a demonstration of firing the mortar.

Day #5--Jamestown Settlement

Here it is Monday and back to exploring Virginia. This is showing how the Powattan Indians made boats by start little fires in the logs and scraping the ashes with seashells.

The blacksmith in the colony, making nails...

The community oven...

Gardens

Small houses where they ate and slept in the same rooms and had to just put their beds away every day.

My little troopers. Poor Noah has school and I had already pulled him out a few days the week before. But obviously we will take him back there. It's not far from us and it's even free for York County residents.

Ammon sitting on a bench in the church house...

Micah did usually eventually pass out for an hour or so when he had surpassed nap time by a couple of hours. Poor guy.

They had the 3 ships that brought the colonists here in the 1606-1620 range. This was very coold and fun to see and try to imagine living primarily in the small dark quarters beneath the deck for 4 1/2 months.