Rocky Mount
Today we learned about life in the late 1700's from authentic living history actors.
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"Today we learned about life in the late 1700's"
What did you learn?
Robert, go to this site: http://www.rockymountmuseum.com/ to learn more about Rocky Mount. From the website: "Passing through the door of Rocky Mount, you step back in time to the year 1791... George Washington is President of the United States and has appointed William Blount as Governor of the Southwest Territory. Governor Blount has taken up residence at William Cobb's log home of Rocky Mount to conduct the business affairs of the new territory. When William Cobb arrived with his family in the western frontier of North Carolina in 1769, he did not realize that his new home would play such an important role in shaping the future of our country."
As a former re-enactor, I can tell you that this site is very historically accurate. The folks who volunteer to do the re-enacting are very knowledgeable. If you don't live in the SW VA/NE TN area, look around your own home town to see if there are any historical places that do this type of re-enacting. They might have mini seminars about life in the 18th Century. I was especially attracted to their gardens and animal husbandry lectures, such as how to make your own cheese, how to start a fire with flint & steel, and many other low tech methods of living. People think "low tech" means "subsistance" (which is a euphemism for "starving") which is so far from the truth! There are many things one can learn from 18th century ways of doing things that would benefit folks in the 21st Century.