Was it thatda, it people in canada had a rough time as well. But because it was a form of colonialism, unlike places in line america. Gentlemen, thank you. [applause] [applause] our friends at barnes and noble have the book for sale and dr. Kelton will be happy to sign your copy. Dr. Kelton thank you. Chatter] week, american artifacts takes you to museums to show what artifacts reveal about american history. Located in stanton, virginia, the Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of migrants from europe, we visit original houses germany,and, ireland, and we hear about the daily life in of the new world. We hear about what belongings they might have brought with them and well also see a 1740s farm. We will discover differences between european farms and American Farms. This is from the Frontier Culture Museum. We are a Living History Museum with a mission focus on education. Our objective here is teach people how a unique folk culture was created through blending european, african, and
Thats why the name is now the blue room. Its a very high style french chair. This is the one that we discovered had the most original material still a part of its guilding and its surface features and so it has been restored to look like it probably would have looked in the Monroe Administration with some very beautifully burnished smooth surfaces to simulate metal. In fact, that is fwilded wood. And then the red upholstery fabrics were put on to recreate its original appearance so that this became, then, the specimen chair we could use at the Visitors Center while we still have other chairs in the suite up holstered in blue that are in the blue room. Since the arrival of this chair in 1961 the white house has upped its total to ten original pieces from the suite that was made by pierre belogge. It represents some of the grandeur of white house interiors, how the public rooms were meant to be impressive to foreign diplomats and american citizens who came to the white house for politica
American history tv is featuring cspans original sundayst 8 00 eastern throughout the rest of the year. Next week, we look at lady bird johnson. This is American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Located in stanton, virginia, the Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of early american migrants from europe. We visit original houses from england, ireland, and germany relocated to the museum and hear historical interpreters describe daily life in the old world. We ask what would motivate of these europeans to migrate to america and what belongings they might have brought with them. American farm40s and seat similarities and differences with farms in europe. This is the first of the twopart is he him twopart series. I have a cultural director. We are a Living History Museum with a mission focused on education. Our objective at the Frontier Culture
Selling that at market. Those would be the sources of income for this family. So they are working hard, they are doing well. And they have they are basically the top of the working class. Could you refer to them as the midland sort. And again they are farmers. This is based on the woodhouse family. They have edward and cecilia and on one stone is says e. W. And that stands for edward wood house and this is his home and he and his wife cecilia has six children. You can see it is timber framing and there was not as much wood in england at the time. Things like ship building and tanning have deforested so youre going to need to be resourceful. But the fact that this person can afford wood and have wood and Wooden Furniture in his home shows he is doing well. And we have in the square panels we have quadle and daub. That is like a basket weave, and one plain, with one plain and you would have daub on one side and daub on the other. It consists of what you have on the farm, like straw, anim
Ireland, you have a lot of rain. So even though it is raining, you are not inside weaving because you have too much farm work to do so you only weave at night after supper. Economically at the type, you would say he is a strong farmer. But he was a midland sort which means he was middle class. Not the wealthiest realm but far from being the poorest. In the early years of the linen trade, everyone is making money so life is good. But with the depression, things started going bad really quick. The linen board, when they the linen industry goes to Northern Ireland with the french huguenots so they start teaching everyone how things are done. And then they set up the lynnon board to kind of govern the production of linen. And for the girls, they would go there and learn how to spin. And they would start when they are really small, because they have the tinily little fingers so they could spin a finer thread. And part of the graduation present is they would get their own Spinning Wheel. Now