Ropes on the Mayflower II which were coated in tar to protect them from the salty sea water since they did not have synthetic rope material:
Baking bread. They had heated up the baking oven by burning a fire inside for awhile, and here they are scooping out the hot ashes to make room for the bread dough. Then one of them will mop out the inside so the bread doesn't get covered with charcoal residue. We checked back later, and the bread rounds smelled sooooo good baking.
These are the loaves of bread waiting to be baked:
This is the inside of a typical settler's house. The furniture and dishes would have been brought over on the boat.
This is a pile of charcoal that the blacksmith in the village and his friends/neighbors were working on. They had burned one and a half cords of wood so far for this pile and would spend about 3 days to burn 3 cords to get a good sized pile of charcoal which he would then use in his forge.
This native American woman was finger weaving in her wigwam and told us a lot about life for the Wampanog in the 1620's.
#1 was amazed by the diameter of the main mast on the Mayflower II. It was huge!
This young woman on the ship told us about how she came to the New World because her husband was trying for a better life with more opportunities and potential to make a good living. She was not a pilgrim needing religious freedom from King James to practice her beliefs without persecution. She was a steadfast follower of the Church of England who disagreed with many of her fellow passengers aboard the ship about religion. She was there to show us that not everyone aboard the Mayflower was coming to America for religious freedom. Some of the passengers were seeking their fortune more like the colonists who had sailed to Jamestown twenty years earlier.
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