October 19, 2013

  • Traveling Through Time and Cultures

    About 5:00 this morning, I heard Dean ask if I was awake. He had been up in the night in order to verify a project for work and while he was up he discovered that today would be an excellent day for us to visit the Frontier Culture Museum. We have had this on our to-do list for several years so I was ready to say yes even at that time of the day. We let the boys sleep a couple more hours and then rustled them out of their beds after the sun had come up. They had all kinds of questions, but quickly dressed and brushed their teeth before hitting the road. We ate breakfast in the van and were at the museum soon after it opened.

    We began our journey back into history in the African village where the boys helped to wash the skins off of black-eyed peas in preparation for the next meal. 1199

    Jeremy learned that the way to keep the village free of snakes was to keep the ground clear of all vegetation and he got to help clear some of the weeds that were sneaking in.
    1206

    We journeyed on to an English farm where the ladies of the house were doing the baking for the week. We climbed the very narrow stairs to the second floor where we peered through the leaded glass windows.
    1208

    Our next stop took us to Ireland where Jeremy and Justin were most interested in visiting with the blacksmith. They were able to get some tips from him and came home interested in finding an anvil and figuring out how to keep a fire hot enough to make iron glow.1210

    We spent quite a bit of time in Germany where the chickens look foreign

    1215

    and the water can be pulled from a well.
    1219

    The ladies of the house were preparing noodles which caused me to remember sneaking into grandma's spare room after she had laid noodles out to dry and grabbing a snack of half-dried noodles.
    1213

    Along the way we got to pick red beets from one of the well-tended gardens and the boys got to try their hands at making a wooden spatula.
    1223

    In each section of the museum, we learned the most when we took the time to visit with the interpreters. We learned that the eastern part of Virginia was settled by the English while the Shenandoah Valley was settled by Germans. Our unplanned day turned out to be a very nice family day. I came home to the laundry that I didn't do and food that needs to be prepared for potluck tomorrow, but I'm glad that we went.

Comments (2)

  • It looks like a place we would visit; very educational but fun at the same time. It reminds me of the Living History Farm near Des Moines, IA.

    • It is similar to the Living History Farm near Des Moines. This one attempts to show how the different cultures have blended into one culture and what each culture has brought.

Comments are closed.

Post a Comment