Here are some photos of our experience.
Firstly, we watched a slideshow and listened to John introduce household items that existed when there was no electricity, things like, candles, kerosine lamps, early electric lamps and switches. Then we looked at stoves, ovens and kitchens throughout the early years.
Next we moved into the museum to watch Joh introduce some of the items from the slide show and lots more! Butter churners, stoves, candle makers, enamel cups, plates, jugs and buckets, baths, even a tobacco cutter!
Then we moved to Beavertown to get started with the butter churning. Cream was put into a big glass jar with a hand beater screwed on top. We all had a chance to beat the cream before leaving some of the adults to keep beating!
John the took us through to do some laundry. Well, what a shock this was for everyone. After we watched John demonstrate how the washing was done before electricity we had to have a go ourselves! We were able to wash a piece of clothing in a tub with sunlight soap and a board, before squeezing out the water using a ringer. They even hung them out to dry...
What else you ask! Well, then we headed back into the kitchen to play with the apple peeler, meat grinder, onion and carrot grinder while we kept beating the cream!
ONIONS!!!!!!
Still churning!
We did it!
Stay tuned in to see what we do with all this food and butter....
A huge thank you to John Orchard for taking time to teach us all and keep us connected to our past.
A massive special thank you though to our wonderful families who made the trip possible... Simon Clark, Kim Davis, Paula Stone, Kim Lee, Sue Bulman and Barbara and Dennis Morrison. Hope you all had fun too!
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