We had such a wonderful Ohio Heritage week last summer that we expanded it to two fully booked weeks, this year.  We had great weather (at least for the most part!) and we had the most wonderful kids.

We were delighted to have Emily Bundy as our teacher, for her second year, and hope that she’ll be with us for years to come.  All the important subjects,  from making candles to making corn griddle cakes with butter in the batter and then doing the washing, making your own ink and your own quills and writing with them, making pierced metal lanterns and learning to weave and sew will remain in the syllabus! And would you believe… two years in a row the campers have had an in person visit from Betsy Nicholson (as in the lady of the house in the Nicholson house more than 150 years ago)!

There were lots of games, all week, many 19th C crafts, and much enjoyed visits to the Oldest Stone House Museum for a thorough immersion in 1830’s life in Lakewood.  Special thanks to both our adult volunteers and our student volunteers from H20 who did an amazing job of making learning about life in Lakewood 200 years ago incredibly fun.

We’re looking forward to 2024 already.  Think about volunteering for a morning or two.  It’s a complete pleasure – a wonderful program with great kids and awesome fellow volunteers.  Plan on having a very good time – and mastering butter making, cinnamon apples, weaving and washing soap in a big copper kettle filled with water from wooden buckets!