Along with Preparing for the Holidays, you can observe more ways that our 19th century counterparts were getting ready for the festivities on Saturday the 26th. You can try making some Christmas Crafts for your tree and home, taste some flavors of the season, and even see how a hog gets from the barnyard to the feast table!
In other news, Genesee Country Village and Museum hosted it's very first Civil War Immersion event. An Immersion event is one in which the participants are in First-Person the whole time. That is, they assume a character for the weekend and do not break it for the whole 48 hour period. Nothing is scripted, so the participants have to be prepared to react to whatever may happen. In this case, the event was set in Western Virginia in 1861. A local bridge had been burned and the area occupied by the Federal Army. The Confederates are hoping to retake the bridge area. We did not expect to see soliders in town, but we did, many times! It was quite exciting!
Here are the civilian participants in front of Hosmer's Inn.
We hope to host such an event again as it went off very well and all had a great time!
Great photos!
ReplyDeleteLove the food -- you can almost smell the turkey. Congratulations to the volunteers who maintained 'first person' for such a long time! Would love to know how they felt about that experience, and what motivated them to participate.
Thanks for sharing!