Hey Everyone,

I hope your Holiday’s are going well and you have a great new year. I want to thank you all for reading and watching my blog’s over this past year.  This year has been great for the blog,  thousands of visitor’s have come to the blog and lots of them have added the blog to their feeds and that’s great!  I am looking forward to this new year.

 I  just wanted to give you a look at some of our collection’s here at Wampanoag Homesite.  All of our collection’s are reproduction’s and not originals.  I will in this blog show you some bowl’s and spoon’s but we have so much more in our collection’s and I will show you them soon.  We make these bowl’s and spoon’s out of  Burl’s (these are those knot’s you see on trees) .   We make the bowl’s and spoon’s  here at Plimoth Plantation most time’s right in front of the public.   We burn them out with hot coal’s from the fire’s.  

Here’s a bowl made out of a cherry burl it has a effigy of a bear on it.  This bowl is more than 15 year’s old .  This is a serving bowl.

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Hey Everyone,

Its Tim Turner again the Manager of the Wampanoag Program here at Plimoth Plantation. I just want to tell you to look for some video Blogs on Thanksgiving comming soon. I will interview one of the Pilgrims in the Village and ask them about Thanksgiving and one of our Wampanoag staff members in the Homesite about Thanksgiving too.

I am also going to give you a tour of our exzibit here at Plimoth Plantation thats is on Thanksgiving too. This exzibit go’s into the History of Thanksgiving and how it became to be the holaday we know today. The exzibit will give you a better understanding of the real Thanksgiving and not the Myth’s that we may know about today.

I look forward to bring this to you soon so Please keep visiting the blog .

Thank You!
Timothy Turner

Hello everyone,

I wanted to show you the progress we have made on the Neeswetu so here go’s hope you like what I wrote.

I guess I should first tell you everything we do on the site is done slowly.  We do this so as many visitors can see it as possible because we don’t do a lot of these things every year.   We only  building houses every 3 to 5 years.

We have finished the top of the house, what we call the cap, witch is the very top of the house.   We are now working on the ends of the neeswetu and will be the last step in roofing the house.

This house will have flat ends not round like some of the other houses on the homesite.   The bark we are using is Popular bark and today, we go to Waldorf  Maryland to get big sheets of bark today to a saw mill that select cuts in a forest that has 100 year old trees.

I have posted some picture below click on read the rest of the post blow to see them.  I also would like you to comment on the blog click comment and leave me your comment and I will answer you.

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Hey Eveyone,

I thought I might talk about food this time.   We have not talked about food before,  just a little on the strawberrry thanksgiving post.   The summer for the Wampanoag would of been all about fish and shellfish for food.  At This time of year you would of had just a little corn for seed left,  and you would of used that seed for planting.

This picture has a striped bass roasting over the fire in the homesite.  Fish and shellfish would of been something you ate alot of in the summer time.  This fish is roasting on a spit or a sharp stick over the fire.

We could of  made a big fire and spread out the coal’s and raped the striped bass with clay and let it dry, then bake the fish in clay on the coals too, mm so good done this way!.

Shell fish would of been smoked to save it for winter time.  In the winter you would of moved in land away from the ocean and smokeing shell fish would keep it all winter long.

That’s a little about food I will post more about food as we go here hope this gives you a little look at food, I promiss more to come on this.

thanks

Tim