Hestia's Homeschool

http://home.earthlink.net/~disneymaniacs/ is another local blog that talks about this day...

My dear friend Laura set up this day. It was a wonderful learning experience...so much to take in! I was delighted that Quakers were featured prominently in the village as people who helped escaped slaves along the Underground Railroad.

I believe my children were stunned by the fact that children had virtually no childhood and worked as hard as adults....ten year old Daniel Boone, for example, left for three months to tend his family's cattle, all alone.  The children had to do most of the cooking and manual labor. Mothers engaged in textile production and also nursed babies.

I may have committed a small faux pas when one of the reenactors, who was talking  about the race wars between the Indians and the White people stepped out of character and told the children to expect a race war between whites and Hispanics in their future.

What?!!  He also mentioned that pacifism doesn't work.

I mentioned a few examples where pacifism did work, and that I do not believe that we will have a race war with Hispanics.

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• #8 Comment from sellnstampr 
  10/29/04 6:17 PM | Permalink

  Yeah in our talk later that day the same re-enactor made a vague comment that we we as white people were  in the minorities and we would be on the receiving end of racism and be "at war with others.  I was shocked when he briefly made the comment.  I was trying to figure out what he was referring to and why he made the comment.  Everyne got quiet when he said it.   I didn't get a good energy from him after he said that comment but wasn't really sure what had happened.  It was the 2nd to last station we had that day so I let it roll off me.  I kind of felt sorry for him because of some other things he mentioned so I thought well maybe he has just had things happen to him that made him think the way he does.  Still it was a bit shocking to me.  Didn't know he made similar comments to the other groups.  Overall we had a wonderful day. We missed the music part of the day though.  Geez I would have loved that.
• #7 Comment from mamariesenberg 
  10/29/04 5:30 PM | Permalink

  Kas, sweetie.....he was an idiot <grin>.  I say this because I was there and had to bite my tongue not to argue with him (good girl that I am I try not to argue with my elders).  It was shameful his comments and they had no place ANYWHERE, let alone at a reenactment.  I think the only comment he made the whole day that I at all appreciated was that children couldn't go to school until they were 7 because they were often still nursing until then!  Of course YOU missed that comment, making that wrong turn off the exit ramp!
• #6 Comment from mlraminiak 
  10/26/04 11:48 AM | Permalink

  YOU committed a faux pas?  That idiot should have been fired on the spot!  Lisa  :-]
• #5 Comment from hestiahomeschoolEntry Author 
  10/24/04 4:29 PM | Permalink

  Well, I made my point there, face to face. He was an elderly sort of disabled man. I am not going to ruin his reenacting for him.  I felt a little obnoxious for saying anything at all, just like I did when the woman who was reenacting Quakers (for the past three months) talked about the Quakers having ministers and I told her Quakers do not have clergy--we have Elders, but no clergy, ministers, or priests.  I felt like I sounded like a know-it-all, but then, I AM Quaker.The day was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
• #4 Comment from suzypwr 
  10/24/04 1:22 PM | Permalink

  Just how is this race war supposed to happen? I agree, lodge a complaint. He made a racist and inappropriate statement. Loved the pictures! I was surprised to see paint on that one log home. xoxo