Life Before Electricity

Last Saturday as a kickoff to the Museum's new display "Life Before Electricity", we held an event in conjunction with the Greensburg Fall Festival to hi-light what life was like before electricity entered homes in Decatur County. In each of the rooms we had live interpreters dressed in costume to explain how each room in the house would have been used, and what types of household chores they would be doing. Each interpreter had a part to plan in an overall script for the day which revolved around the preparations for a wedding. This was an ambitious project for us and I'm glad it went well. As always attendance could have been a little better, the rain combined with the fact that the fall festival blocked off our view of the square with trailers and port-o-pots didn't help. But the day was successful and I think everyone had a good time.

I played the part of Reverand Lathrop in the prduction, though I didn't have a script so it was a small part. This was good because I spent much of the day running around capturing the show with pictures. My family brought in two pieces for the display, an old ice box and a rug loom.

As well as having our narritive script, we also had quiltiers and a woodcarver set-up in and outside the Museum preforming their trades.

Pictures!

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Craftsmen/women:







Also the Friends of the Library Group got together with us to host a Pie Sale as a fund raiser in our front lawn. So here our some pictures of that. I will say the Pumpkin pie I purchased was good.