Bi2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 2, 1988
BY MARJORIE KEEN ner served at the 1714 Bams-
Chester Co. Correspondent Brinton House in Chadds Ford.
CHADDS FORD (Chester) Lois leads the Junior Historians.
In 1793, a Chester County summer Because Quaker settlers in the
was defined by the solar calendar, Brandywine River Valley were
not Memorial Day and Labor Day, English, they would have begun
Lois Parker said in welcoming 4-H spring plowing on Candlemas
parents and guests to a mid- Day, February 2. They planted
summer social celebrating the sol- peas, lettuce, radishes and rye,
slice last Saturday. The celebration Lois said. By the summer solstice,
planned by the Dilworlhtown they would have harvested the first
Country Ctafters 4-H Junior Histo- cutting of rye. In 1793, the leader
nans featured an 18th-century din- continued, there was a drought.
Jason Ingram and Ray Ritchie demonstrate Inkle loom
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According to Chester County
4-H Youth Agent Laurie Sicko-
Sandow, hands-on history, as prac
ticed by the 8-to-15-year old Dil
worlhtown Country Grafters, is the
first 4-H Junior Historians club in
Pennsylvania. Lois wrote the pro
ject book, Sicko-Sandow said, and
is now receiving inquiries from
other interested counties.
“Domestic skills of 18lh century
girls” is the project theme this
year, said Lois. The club meets one
Saturday a month during the
school year and each Wednesday
in summer. The Bams-Brinton
House, owned by the Chadds Ford
Historical Society, is the regular
meeting place, although field trips
are scheduled frequently.
Ray Ritchie of Cochranville has
volunteered to teach boys’ skills in
another part of the house, Lois
said. So far, the club has only girls.
Ray taught them the art of making
tape on an inkle loom. Clarissa
Dillon, Haverford, serves as the
group’s historical resource person.
Clothing and dairying are the
projects to be mastered by the
Junior Historians this year. Bee
hive oven baking, butter churning,
planting an herb garden, candle
dipping, making redware pottery,
hand milking, cross stitching a
sampler and constructing 18th cen
tury clothing give the members a
feel for the life that was lived 200
years ago.
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