Join us on Monday, September 28th at 6pm for Homemaking on the Kentucky Frontier – Presented by author Eddie Price.
FREE ADMISSION
Doors open at 5:30pm.Take a journey back to 1811 and experience homemaking on the Kentucky frontier—“from the ground up.” Learn how frontier folk cultivated and preserved their food, made their clothes, doctored their families, and still found time for recreation and religion.
Cooking on open hearths, hemp and flax breaking, heckling, spinning, weaving and dyeing are examined. Learn about the severity of disease in the 1800s and how little medical knowledge existed at that time. Native American and folk remedies are discussed, along with frontier religion and recreational activities.
Eddie Price displays utensils used by early Kentuckians and educates with a colorful PowerPoint slideshow. Great for classrooms K-12, college classes, and historical, genealogical, and homemaker societies. This program was first presented for the Kentucky State Homemakers Association Convention in 2017.