We had a steady stream of visitors throughout the day. I have only a few photographs, taken at one of the few points in the day when we were not actively engaged talking to the public and demonstrating our items.
Quiet Valley is always notable for very nice displays of eighteenth and nineteenth century material culture, and this fall was no exception. There were samples of delicious scrapple and sausage, made from pigs raised on the farm, demonstrations of linen production from flax - I picked up a bundle of waste tow and boon to use in starting fires - hat-making from rye straw, dyeing using natural vegetable dyes, and many other demonstrations of local history and farm life in centuries past. Oh, yes, there was food galore - and very good food, too: sausage, Welsh cakes, pies, barbecued beef, and a host of other food.
