domestic life

A junior interpreter washes a pot in the Governor's Palace kitchen.

An interpreter enjoys a hearty bowl of root vegetable soup that she helped prepare in the kitchen at Great Hopes Plantation.

Interpreters make root vegetable soup in the kitchen at Great Hopes Plantation.

An interpreter slices a turnip to make root vegetable soup in the kitchen at Great Hopes Plantation.

Detail of an interpreter's hands using a knife to peel a turnip in the kitchen at Great Hopes Plantation.

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry buckets of milk as she greets a friend sitting on a fence in the Historic Area.

An interpreter uses a yoke to carry buckets of milk as she greets a friend sitting on a fence in the Historic Area.

Interpreters make candles in the Historic Area.

Interpreters make candles in the Historic Area.

An interpreter shovels dirt onto a wheelbarrow in the Historic Area.

Two young girls run to join their mother at a garden gate. The mother carries a basket of yarn made by the Weaver's Shop.

Two young girls carry a basket of yarn on Palace Green, with the Governor's Palace in the distance.

A group of boys play trap ball behind the Benjamin Powell House as two girls watch from a fence line.

An interpreter's hands use a silver spoon to add sugar to a cup of tea.

Production still from the Electronic Field Trip, "Remember the Ladies". An interpreter picks herbs in a garden. For more information about this EFT see: history.org/history/teaching/resourcelibrary/index.cfm

Production still from the Electronic Field Trip, "Remember the Ladies". An interpreter makes a bed on the second floor of the Peyton Randolph kitchen. For more information about this EFT see: history.org/history/teaching/resourcelibrary/index.cfm

Production still from the Electronic Field Trip, "Remember the Ladies". An interpreter carries two buckets of water through a vegetable garden using a yoke. For more information about this EFT see: history.org/history/teaching/resourcelibrary/index.cfm

An interpreter churns butter next to a Red Devon cow.

An interpreter churns butter next to a Red Devon milking cow.

Two Interpreters walk together in the Historica Area as other interpreters ride horses and drive carts around them.