The Historic Preservationist

This episode lays out the procedures of serving of meals, etiquette, accoutrements on the table and how all of this changed from the mid-16th - through the early twentieth century.

This episode describes colonial; hearths, cooking utensils, heating and an early romance of where the center of colonial life existed in the home’s interior.

From various forms of candle making materials, natural scents such as the Bayberry bush to accent candles, to oil and tallow, to various types of fire starters, night light in colonial times took time and skill to produce and was expensive.

Roof-lines and interior decorations proceed as the century went on.

From living in dug-out caves to thatched roof houses, early colonial settlers brought skill sets and certain styles from the home-lands.

The enlightenment solidified sound scientific methodology, peace between religions, separation between church and state, and a number of women who broke away from their domestic duties.

Somerville claimed out of traditional domestic roles in England, studying scientific experimentation she was the first woman accepted into the Royal Society.

Society had begun to realize that they had the capacity to engage in choices regarding the state and to enjoy personal liberties, which took the form philosophies of the enlightenment.

The American Enlightenment farther supported the concept of the country as a republic.

Paine created a pamphlet Common Sense which helped nudge the colonists toward the war of independence. He also warned later of religious fanaticism, claiming its basis , the Bible, was a book of many lies, wickedness blasphemy.