Yesterday's weather was beautiful, and we took full advantage of it by going to the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, VA.
The Frontier Culture Museum is not an ordinary museum, with artifacts on display in a brick-and-mortar building. Instead, it is s a “Living History Museum” covering 200 acres in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. It tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America -- or who were enslaved and brought against their will -- and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendants.
They have actual farms and homes from Africa and Europe which they have relocated to the grounds of the museum so that visitors can see how people from around the world contributed to the success of the colonies and then the United States.
Their website is HERE.
Below: A n English farm from the 1600s. This farm shows what life was like in a yeoman farmer household in England's West Midland's in during the 1600s.
The Frontier Culture Museum is not an ordinary museum, with artifacts on display in a brick-and-mortar building. Instead, it is s a “Living History Museum” covering 200 acres in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. It tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America -- or who were enslaved and brought against their will -- and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendants.
They have actual farms and homes from Africa and Europe which they have relocated to the grounds of the museum so that visitors can see how people from around the world contributed to the success of the colonies and then the United States.
Their website is HERE.
Below: A n English farm from the 1600s. This farm shows what life was like in a yeoman farmer household in England's West Midland's in during the 1600s.
Below left: The Irish Forge, a working representation of a rural blacksmith shop in eighteenth century Ulster. Below right: An Irish farm from the 1700s.
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| By Emily Dickinson: The Products of my Farm are these Sufficient for my Own And here and there a Benefit Unto a Neighbor's Bin. With Us, 'tis Harvest all the Year For when the Frosts begin We just reverse the Zodiac And fetch the Acres in. | |
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