LIVING HISTORY DAY - RESCHEDULED

Save the date! Families are welcome to attend after school

LIVING HISTORY DAY

DATE: Thursday, April 9
TIME: 8:00am-4:00pm (families may visit the reenactment grounds between 3:00-4:00pm)
LOCATION: Walden Green Space

What do you get when you combine archive and museum research, an above average interest in history, textile manufacturing and a curiosity in how people lived in the past? Living history! Living historians/reenactors have a self-driven mission to bring history to life so they can experience (and share with others) what it was like to live in another century. There are many types of living history: military reenactors, living history farms and villages, artisans recreating long forgotten crafts/trades and living history field research experiments designed to answer questions.  

On April 9, Walden will transform the Green Space into historical reenactment grounds, bringing several centuries of the past to life! Throughout the school day, all K-12 students will be able to observe and handle woolen clothes/uniforms from several different centuries, see if they would like to sleep on the ground in authentically recreated tents, try Civil War hard tack, hear music that soldiers marched to, observe long lost skills and crafts in operation and watch mounted demonstrations of 19th-century horsemanship skills - like side saddle riding.  To experience something similar, one would have to visit a historic site like Williamsburg, VA or an out-of-state living history village (another stellar example of Walden's focus on experiential learning beyond the classroom). We are so excited to bring this experience to Walden's own backyard and look forward to spending time in another century!