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Also, one of her example areas was York County, Pennsylvania, which is where I’m from, so that was pretty exciting to read examples from. I interned at the county museum, and I know we had A LOT of farm tools. --Sara Krechel | Also, one of her example areas was York County, Pennsylvania, which is where I’m from, so that was pretty exciting to read examples from. I interned at the county museum, and I know we had A LOT of farm tools. --Sara Krechel | ||
| + | In Judith A. McGaw’s writing she explains that even though we had an Industrial Revolution the tools that were being used were still archaic at best. The frontier was not as advanced as we are led to believe it was. I found it interesting that not all frontiersman owned guns, while movies and shows make it look like all people during this time had guns. I wonder how they were able to look after their land without a weapon, or did they make their own too? I also understand that each area, not just a young America, but the world in general had different types of technology for different actions. I also noticed from the inventory items that are shown that some of the people thought that some items were worth putting in their inventory and left off the items that were not of value (to each individual importance of items were subject to their discretion or use). All 3 inventories list books and 2 of the inventories list the Bible, so what they had in common was religion. Technology took a little while to grow on people, but now we can’t stop. --Pam Petzold | ||
