Living History

We currently have 2 Active Living History Programs:

Warm Hearth Committee: The Warm Hearth Committee is comprised of volunteer interpreters who specialize in the practice and demonstration of hearth cooking techniques and receipts in use during the Hand period of residence. The committee mission is to enhance the educational value of the house tour by accurately portraying to the visiting public likely activities of a pre-1805 kitchen. Volunteers do not need hearth cooking experience but will learn from others as they participate. Please click here for more information: Warm Hearth Committee Information

Dance Committee: The Dance Committee’s is comprised of self-taught amateurs in English Country Dance, a centuries old dance form that is still popular worldwide with individual dances having numerous variations. Country dances were the most popular of the social dances done by all ages and all classes of society in America during the latter part of the 18th century. Although they were English in origin, they were danced throughout the British Isles and parts of Western Europe as well. “Country dance” was a generic term for progressive dances in a longways formation and did not have the connotation of rural or rustic dancing that the name may conjure up today. Please click here for more information: Dance Committee Information