Living in 1802

This is a longer look at the long weekend experience we had fourteen years ago when the kids were much younger, living as the 1802 family at the Genesee Country Museum in upstate New York. I had a blast and I think the rest of the family had a relatively good time. The “hearth” was basically a stone floor where we made a fire, so that was probably the most challenging element of the work. I don’t know how pioneer women ever got more than a couple of dozen feet from that smoky spot! I used that thought in the “Frontier and Grid” chapter I wrote for my American Environmental History.