Testing out the old bicycles. I can't imagine trying to balance on those!
Especially this one! Your feet can't even touch the ground!
These look easy to ride, but if you don't have the proper posture, you'll steer yourself right off the path!
Playing Graces in the side yard. This game was used to teach women how to play "gracefully".
This game is great exercise!
Sara helps Clara and Claire with getting the tops to spin using a toy where you wind the top into a string and then pull the string out and drop the top.
The girls were all standing here saying "Maa, Maa" and the sheep actually started walking over to them!
This was in one of the vegetable gardens and is called Rubra Malabar Spinach. Very pretty growing up the branch!
One of the farms was in the process of dyeing wool.
The interpreter to the right puts an orange mushroom into the ammonia cooking over the fire. The interpreter on the right holds a wet wooden square that will be placed over the pot to cover it. After about a half hour, the ammonia should be an orange color.
They will then use the solution to dye wool to an orange or peach color.
The one room schoolhouse.
Getting a feel for what school would have been like in the 1800's.
Somehow, I think this simple statement has gotten lost in translation over the years!
Laura, Clara, Isabel, and Hailey
Learning that this big kettle was actually used for doing laundry.
We got to sample various root crops like beets, turnips, and horseradish.
Clara got to help take kernels off of a corncob that would eventually be ground into cornmeal to make cornbread.
Isabel, Claire, Laura, Clara, and Hailey
Having fun!
The structure they are under was not called a gazebo back then. It was called a summerhouse.
A couple of wild turkeys grazing in a field near one of the German houses.
One of the oxen...a gentle giant.
On an overcast day like it was, I'm sure much of the sewing and knitting took place by a window like this.
The girls collected this bucket of eggs from the coop.
They got to try out a pair of wooden shoes.
Sam, the Percheron horse. They are such big horses!
Sam loves kids!
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