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- Mrs. McLean was the innkeeper. One interesting fact that she taught us was that the innkeepers were supposed to report illegals before they did something bad. They would be fined if they didn't and that surprised me because sometimes they wouldn't talk around her and then she would get in trouble even though she had no way of knowing.
- Peter Smith was the frontiersman. One interesting fact we learned was that frontiersman usually lived 8-12 hours away from any village or settlement. I thought that was unusual because if he needed something he would spend his whole day walking to town and by then it would be late and he would have to spend the night and spend pretty much all of his next day walking also.
- Private Rowland Soule was a British soldier. One interesting fact we learned was that they had to hold their cups upside down to show that they weren't saving liquor to get drunk later. It is odd why they would make them do this procedure when they could just whip them if they did get drunk.
- Ida was the toy maker. One interesting fact we learned from her was that sometimes the children's fathers would take the children's marbles when they went hunting and use them as bullets to shoot small animals because bullets were hard to come by and expensive.
- Zebadiah was a carpenter. One interesting fact that he taught us was that the phrase to and fro came from a type of knife called a fro. To use this knife you would take a fro mallet, pound it into a piece of wood, and then move it back it forth, or to and fro.
- Charles W. Walker was the head of the militia. One interesting fact that we learned was that after you shot someone and it didn't kill them then you would step on their chest trapping them and then crush their skull with their musket.
- Joseph O' Fallen was a trapper and trader. One interesting fact that we learned from him was that one beaver fur in good condition was worth one teacher's salary for one year. I found that surprising because I thought that everyone would be a trapper and become rich. Plus, then I would think that beavers would go extinct in a year.
- Katherine duBois was a clothes maker. One interesting fact was that the wooden shoes could fit on either foot and they were actually comfortable. I would think that the wooden shoes would be uncomfortable and like ice skates or something.
- Janette was the spinner. I think that it was weird that in order to sell the cloth you would have to send it to Britian which cost money and it was taxed than to sell it they would have to get it back which cost money and it was taxed, then they had to pay to sell it. That is triple taxes!!
- Captain John Park was the surveyor. One interesting fact he taught us was that they used a measurement system chains and links. It was very confusing and also it seemed very time consuming you had to find the links in a chains and the chains in a acre.They should make a different system.
I think that it was fun. I liked learning about the militia and all the different ways to use the weapons it was cool because he had real weapons. I also like the British Grenadier. I thought it was cool learning about the different stances. I didn't like the surveyor that much because it was boring and confusing. I didn't get the different measurements and stuff.