Susanna and the Women in Revolutionary Rhode Island
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| Laundry day |
It's laundry day! We must was our linen. By linen I mean the clothing I wear next to my skin. My shift is made from linen. My persperation (that's a big word. Did I spell that correctly?) soaks into the linen. It cools me off on a sunny day. I change my body linen when I am hot and when I sleep. I must wash it in the river and dry it in the sun.
I take a break to watch the babies and help them play with their toys.
We have poppets, bilbocatch (cup and ball) and a hornbook to practice our reading.
Next is market day.
We grow many herbs in the kitchen garden. Some are used for medicine and others for cooking. This lady has extra herbs she sells in the marketplace.
We do not drink tea in our household any longer. I tell the herb seller my friend Felicity has a recipe for raspberry leaf tea. When I feel poorly after indulging in too many biscuits, Mamma brews me a tisane of peppermint leaves. I love peppermint tea. Raspberry leaf tea tastes like grass.
The ladies break for tea (leftover from before the boycott or maybe some of the fine herbs grown in the garden) and games.
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| Shrewsbury Cakes I tell the lady I have made those with my friend Felicity in Virginia. She knows Felicity! |
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| This lady plays cribbage |
Life goes on in the usual ways for now. Come and visit again soon. I am sure I will have more to tell you if this war continues.
Editor's note: We had a conversation about Felicity and Pleasant Company (twice with both sets of reenactors) and how she inspired us to DO history. Everyone misses Felicity, even an older adult who was not a child in the Pleasant Co. era has original Felicity and Beforever Felicity. History nerds and librarians are the best!
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