Saturday, October 9, 2021

Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm (10/9/2021)

Saturday, October 9, 2021 (continued)
On the outskirts of Stroudsburg, PA is a restored 19C German farm called Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm. Today happened to be the first of two days of their 47th Annual Harvest Festival.
Grating horseradish (KSS)
Coopering a wooden pail
Spinning flax into yarn
Making lace
Rendering apple butter
Grilling chicken
Making griddle cookies
Rendering lard
Making scrapple and then frying it on the flat pan
Cooking cinnamon-sprinkled apples
Weaving baskets
A band with a hammered dulcimer, fiddle, banjo and guitar
Bank barn (1850s)
Kent with the smoke house
Now Kent is at the dryhouse
Slices of fruit or vegetables were placed
on trays and herbs were hung to dry
Bake oven
Offering buttered bread 
Well and springhouse
Shredding cabbage
Making candles
Lime kiln
Horse-drawn wagon rides
Schoolhouse (c 1893)
Hoops game being played in front of the double outhouse,
separated by firewood storage
Covered bridge
Icehouse
Wood chips in the icehouse (KSS)
Farm house (late 1700s with multiple additions up to 1890)
Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus/domestic rabbit (KSS)
Blacksmith: "You can never have too many tongs"
Apple dumpling
Dried flower hair wreaths (um, is this traditional?)
Quiet Valley ATM
Next: Piper Aviation Museum.

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