Living History

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! We just spent a great morning in the land of the Senecas. We went to trade for our authentic costume stuff that we need to gather for the history program we are in. So far we have made old fashioned home made ice cream, sewed (by hand!) authentic dresses and shirts, and learned the drop spindle, hearth cooking, heirloom gardening. (Organically, of course!) THe projects that the children have been involved in have spun off into other areas of their lives, we decorated journals, now we are selling them, and trading them in the mail. WE LOVE MAIL ART!!! I hope this might inspire one family out there to try learning by living it. You could read about the things our ancestors used to eat, and the thing they used to wear, but if you taste apples and rasins cooked in brown sugar over a smokey fire, you can step into the past! It remembers a lot better that way.