An enactor in the De Gannes House. I listened as she gave a presentation of home life in colonial times - first in English and then in french. All of the enactors are bi-lingual.

A local garden.

This is the store house of one of the merchants. The construction is typical of the period - peeled poles driven into the ground and chinked with mud form the walls - if you could afford it, you'd then cover the pole wall with planks as extra protection from the elements.

From the second floor of a store house.

A real, live goose.

The outer wall defense. The walls were originally built with local stone and mortar using local beach sand. The original builders found that beach sand was unsuitable for construction because of the salt content. To hold the walls together, they were covered with wooden bulwarks.

All the enactors rotate through many jobs. This lady claimed to enjoy this part of the job so she got it more than others.

Here she shows some of the veggies to one of the younger visitors.

The Hearth in the De Gannes House.

On the mantle over the hearth is this clockwork mechanism. Wind it up by raising a weight (see the picture on the left) and as the weight drops, the mechanism rotates the chain and the chain rotates the pig on the spit (see the picture on the left again - no pig, but you get the idea.)

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