Saturday, September 18, 2010

More of the 18th Century

While we were in Williamsburg, we got to visit a lot of various areas and do lots of hands-on things.


Making candles the old-fashioned way.


Various places - court room in the capitol building, shoe maker, garden maze, blacksmith, jail, and a saw pit.
They make everything for the town like the way they would have been made in the 18th century. When they need to repair a house or building they make the nails in the blacksmith shop and cut each log at the saw pit.


The Governor's Palace


Around the town. Boomba is sporting a colonial hat.


The Wig Maker's Shop. Wigs were only for the wealthier colonists.
One interesting fact was that ladies had to shave their heads to wear wigs.

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