hi Kahunas, I camped in New Salem State Historic Site. There were lots of tents in the park. There were 1200 Boy Scouts. That is a lot of boys. This park was the town where Abraham Lincoln lived for 6 years in the 1830's before he was a lawyer or our President. This village had disappeared but some people that liked Lincoln very much decided to rebuild it. They dug around and found exactly where the old houses used to be and they built new houses in the same places. The whole village looks exactly the same now. I walked around the town and met the people that worked there. They were dressed and acted just as people were in Lincolns time. Ladies show me the funny irons thy used then. They had no electricity, so they put the irons in the fire until they got hot. Most of the houses were 1 room cabins. 2 brothers built a house to share. They each had one room on each side to live in with their families. Can you see me sitting outside their house. The picture with the red and white bed cover shows the whole inside of the house. It is very small. It is smaller than your classroom. Some of the ladies showed me how to weave cloth on a loom. They had to make all of their own clothes. I found a root celler door. It led down to a room undergound where they stored alltheir vegetables for the winter. The houses were made with logs. When they piled up the logs, there were spaces between them. What do you think they used to fill in the spaces? I will gie you a clue. They got very dirty when they were doing it. I went to a one room school house. Sometimes it was used as a Church. The school teacher let me sit on his desk for a minute but then I had to sit at the childrens desk. Look at the teachers helper. he was putting wood in the woodbox. There were no zippers then so look closely at his pants. They laced up the back and had a buttoned flap in the front.
I met some hunters and they showed me how they used their guns for hunting. They were vey loud.
Look at the beds. Because the rooms were so small, they had to stack the beds. They were called trundle beds and pulled out from under another bed at night. Lincoln would cut down trees and then split them down the middle to make long boards. Then he made fences called split rail fences.
There was a funny shaped bathtub that looked like a big bucket. Water had to be carried fromm the well and heated in the fireplace. That was a lot of work so everybody would share the same water. I would not like to be the last person. A nice lady showed me how she made soap and then she gave me a piece from her basket and said, Here junior, wash your hands.
The puple flowers in the garden are Hen bane and the light green plants are called chickweed. It was one of the first plants to come up in the spring and so it was cooked for dinner.
I met the blacksmith and watched him make tools.
Next I went back to Springfield and went to Lincolns tomb. There were many statues inside and out. There was a big brass bust of Lincoln. Brass turns black after awhile but it is supposed to be lucky to rub his nose so it is very shiny from peoples hands.
I went next to The Lincoln Museum and Library. I took a picture with the Lincoln family. I met Lincolns statue when he was 9 years old. He loved books and was always reading. I went to Mrs. Lincolns attic and played dress up. Can you guess who I was? Then I playeed with a doll house that looked just like Lincolns house. The last thing I did was play with a butter churn. Cream was put in this and thn you had to push the stick up and down for a very long time until it turned to butter. After that I was very tired so I went back to Cmor. Aloha from Junior.
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