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Sorry for the trickery, but I’ve been holding this thread in the back of my mind since a visit we made in the summer. I had to make it a little fun.
I do wonder how they could have kept warm in those houses. For the re-enactments they are usually cooking something over a small bed of coals. I bet in the 1600’s they probably built up a huge bed of coals by adding a little wood at a time. I can’t see a small fire doing anything and a big flaming fire would burn the house down. Somehow they all lived through it without (everyone) freezing to death.
The Pilgrim houses are small, maybe 150 square feet with 5 to 8 people living in it. For the Native Americans, what I showed is the winter shelter and they would pack people in compared to their summer shelters that have more privacy. A lot of staying warm was body heat and warm clothing.
And here we are today putting on shorts inside comparably huge houses because the stove is keeping the temp in the 80s.
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I do wonder how they could have kept warm in those houses. For the re-enactments they are usually cooking something over a small bed of coals. I bet in the 1600’s they probably built up a huge bed of coals by adding a little wood at a time. I can’t see a small fire doing anything and a big flaming fire would burn the house down. Somehow they all lived through it without (everyone) freezing to death.
The Pilgrim houses are small, maybe 150 square feet with 5 to 8 people living in it. For the Native Americans, what I showed is the winter shelter and they would pack people in compared to their summer shelters that have more privacy. A lot of staying warm was body heat and warm clothing.
And here we are today putting on shorts inside comparably huge houses because the stove is keeping the temp in the 80s.
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weatherguy
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Great thread!
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Simonkenton
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ratsrepus
Minister of Fire
HisTreeNut
Minister of Fire
If I had a fireplace like that I would of course have the rain cover on, but have the largest stove I could find inside. That is more like a kitchen then what we call a fireplace.
It’s normally bad form to bump your own thread / set the old trap but this one was fun and it’s the right time of year. So here goes.
FPX Dude
Feeling the Heat
Well, one of these days I want to get back there and see "The Rock". My only claim to fame is my grand-pappy, and then some, was on the Mayflower and his name is on the Compact, kinda cool eh!
Our family came over 9 yrs later with the Withrop fleet. Went on to start a little town called Boston.
Just watched "American Experience "The Pilgrims." Very good.
American Experience | The Pilgrims | Season 27 | Episode 10 | Vermont Public
Explore the events that propelled a group of men and women across the Atlantic in 1620.
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stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Lol. Read the whole thing. Good one.
When I told my then 4 year old or so daughter we were born "over there", she asked if we'd come here on the Mayflower.
When I told my then 4 year old or so daughter we were born "over there", she asked if we'd come here on the Mayflower.
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
Looks like your family beat mine in the rush to colonize . . . our family landed sometime before 1679 when John Johnson came over from England and ended up in Andover, MA.
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