Today we took our tour of an eighteenth century Cape Cod style home right here in Edmond. Scott and Debra Duncan graciously allow fourth grade to tour their private residence each year during our colonial studies. Bad weather forced us to reschedule from mid November until today and we were blessed with a perfect day! We learned how the house would have been built in stages with the right side of the house being completed first. The left side would be added later.
The kitchen has a beautiful fireplace that can be used for cooking. The warmth it generated was so inviting.
This leather bucket was full of sand or water to put out the occasional fire that may erupt.
A mortar and pestle was used to prepare the fresh rosemary from the garden. The fragance was wonderful.
Debra is showing us how to use this reflector oven for cooking meats.
Our moms helped serve us the oatmeal prepared in a dutch oven in the fireplace kitchen.
So many details were part of cooking a meal for the family.
The authentic colors used in the house are from a buttermilk based paint. The colors stay true for years and years.
A demonstration of a flint-lock rifle. Wow, was it ever loud when Mr. Duncan shoot it.
Thank you, Duncans, for yet another marvelous glimpse into the everyday life of a middling family in the 1700's. I believe the parents were as impressed as the children. And to think, it is right in our backyard here in little old Edmond, Oklahoma!!!!
The kitchen has a beautiful fireplace that can be used for cooking. The warmth it generated was so inviting.
This leather bucket was full of sand or water to put out the occasional fire that may erupt.
A mortar and pestle was used to prepare the fresh rosemary from the garden. The fragance was wonderful.
Debra is showing us how to use this reflector oven for cooking meats.
Our moms helped serve us the oatmeal prepared in a dutch oven in the fireplace kitchen.
So many details were part of cooking a meal for the family.
The authentic colors used in the house are from a buttermilk based paint. The colors stay true for years and years.
A demonstration of a flint-lock rifle. Wow, was it ever loud when Mr. Duncan shoot it.
Thank you, Duncans, for yet another marvelous glimpse into the everyday life of a middling family in the 1700's. I believe the parents were as impressed as the children. And to think, it is right in our backyard here in little old Edmond, Oklahoma!!!!
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