The Home, Life and Times of The Daggett Family
Welcome to the 1750 Daggett Farm House Many of us visit museums - specifically open-air museums - quite often. And we love to enter the historic homes and just simply take it all in, don't we ? We enjoy watching the living historian interpreters as they go about the daily activities t hat emulate and teach visitors about the past : preparing me als "the old-fashioned way," cooking over a hearth or wood-burning stove, laundry, cleanin g, and maybe even some out- of- doors labor. Many visitors at such places have at least a minimal interest in history, therefore probably know the basic s of life "back then , " and are enthralled with the general information often given. But there is so much more... S ince I've discovered the publication of actual journals and diaries originally written a hundred, a hundred and fifty, two hundred , or even two hundred and fifty years ago, I no longer look at the old historic houses quite the