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Love these old homes! The town I grew up in has something called Naper Settlement (my hometown is Naperville) with old homes (not as many), a chapel, and other outbuildings. We did school fieldtrips there when I was young where we learned to churn butter! A valuable skill nowadays...NOT!
Yep, I bet that's one you use all the time....
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I think you actually got THREE bees in the one photo - the third is not in sharp focus, but is in the center foreground.
You're right - I see it now!
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That meal looked yummy, although I was a bit surprised with what a vegetarian lunch Mark had! He seems to gravitate towards beef when you're out.
Mainly because I'm not keen on having it in the house... can't think why...
What a rough start at the airport and baggage claim! Swampscott fits my image of New England, too. By the way, here in my town we call them roundabouts.
What a rough start at the airport and baggage claim! Swampscott fits my image of New England, too. By the way, here in my town we call them roundabouts.
Yay - another one who uses the "proper" English word!
Thursday 24 September – part eight: learning about rationing and seasonal cooking
We continued to explore Strawbery-Banke. This is the Shapiro House, which was built in 1795, but the furnishings you see in here are from the 20th century. It was home to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family.
We walked through some of the museum, enjoying the various different styles of building…
The next building we went into was the Pitt Tavern, which was opened by John Stavers, an immigrant from Portsmouth on the other side of the pond in England. He built this in 1766, and it was designed to house New Hampshire’s first Masonic Lodge. The name of the tavern was changed to Pitt Tavern to honour William Pitt.
I loved the way that the flags outside each building reflected the era the building was from – it certainly made for some very interesting flags…
We visited the Little Corner Store, which had some amazing stuff in it. We discovered that America did have rationing during the Second World War, which I never knew. Apparently sugar was one of the first things to be rationed, because they got theirs from Asia. Interesting stuff.
This was the house next door to it…
Next we went into the Wheelwright House, which is where we learnt all about seasonal cooking, and how at this time of the year, they’d be cooking whatever they could to make provisions for the winter. I wouldn’t have done very well, given that they had a huge reliance on apples back then.
We carried on wandering through the museum…
We went into the Jackson House next, which was being shown as an example of a historic house prior to restoration, and it just goes to show how much work goes into restoring these buildings.
Our next stop was the Shapley-Drisco House, which contrasted home life in the 1790s with the 1950s, and it was fascinating to see…
We did learn a lot from this. For example, we found out that America was once using shillings, then the British form of money – logical, now I think about it, but I just never have.
I did prefer the houses that had people in, as opposed to the ones that just had exhibits, because with those, invariably I wanted to ask something, and of course there was no-one to speak to, which was a shame, but that’s honestly my only criticism of the place.
It’s lovely to have somewhere like this that preserves so much, and it’s something that I’d love to see both ourselves and America do more of. We’ve visited many similar such places in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, where they preserve examples of buildings from around their country so much better than we do, and they’re always fascinating places to visit, just like this one was.
Next: are we ever going to make it to the restaurant?
What a great museum! The items on the shelves at the grocer were very cool to see. it was also very interesting to see the one house in a pre-restoration state. It's unbelievable how much work must go into each of the beautifully restored buildings.
I enjoyed your picture of Strawberry Banke. My experience has been going as a chaperone for 4th grade field trips and it looked so much better without a bunch of nine year olds surrounding everything. So glad you missed all the school groups that go (I think every 4th grader in NH goes).
I know someone recommended Sturbridge Village, which like Plimouth Plantation is a living history museum. Both are well worth the good part of a day.
This place reminds me of Colonial Williamsburg a little bit. Those low ceilings are so weird in these old houses.
That's a lot of work in restoration, holy cow! I'm glad they show you that.
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Love all those houses, and the different eras they show.
My grandma used to tell us about rationing in WWII. I believe during this time they sometimes ate horse meat as beef was rationed. Sugar was definitely rationed, as were nylons.
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Swampscott fits my image of New England, too. By the way, here in my town we call them roundabouts. 
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