CAMDEN KIDS TRAVEL BACK IN TIME
Living History Summer Program Recreates Colonial Life
CAMDEN, N.J. -- This summer, over 100 Camden kids will travel two short blocks and more than 200 years back in time to experience colonial life as part of the Camden County Historical Society's first Living History Summer Program.
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| Photos: Hoag Levins |
Pomona Hall, a restored 18th-century manson in Parkside, will be the centerpiece of a summer Colonial life experience for 100 Camden kids.
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On July 10 and July 22, members from the Parkside Clubhouse of the Boys and Girls Club of Camden County will learn about 18th-century life at the Society, located two blocks away at 1900 Park Blvd. The Society's Living History Summer Program offers demonstrations and hands-on activities ranging from fire-cooking and spinning to quill-pen writing and tours of Pomona Hall, an authentic 18th-century Quaker mansion.
Summer Program participants will:
> Help prepare a meal over an open fire, using colonial cooking techniques;
> Card, stretch and spin raw wool into yarn as they learn about colonial textile production;
> Master low-tech 18th-century toys like "buzzsaws," Jacob's ladders and spinning tops;
> Dress up in colonial clothing to see what children would have worn in the 18th-century;
> Write with quill pens like the Founding Fathers, using ink made from blueberries; and
>Tour Pomona Hall, a northern Quaker plantation house that was home to descendants of Camden's original Cooper family, as well as slaves and indentured servants.
The Boys and Girls Club will take part in the Society's Living History Summer Program as part of their Summer Camp Program.
Designed for children aged six to 12, morning and afternoon sessions have been scheduled from 10 AM to 12 noon, and again from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. For more information, please call the Society at 856-964-3333 or the Boys and Girls Club at 856- 966-9700 (Parkside) or 856-963-6490 (East Camden).
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