- Grade Levels:
- 4-12
- Length:
- 30 minutes
- Taping Rights:
- Unlimited
- MARC Record:
- Downloadable
- Web Site:
- KET Online
- Teaching Materials:
- See Below
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From wool to lumber, the products that fill superstore shelves today were once created by hand. On this field trip, students see how 19th-century settlers used local materials and their own hard work and ingenuity to create the essentials of everyday life.
The Mountain Homeplace is an interpretive working farm in Paintsville where reenactors demonstrate what rural life in Kentucky was like around 1850-1875. Some of the scenes and people you’ll encounter in the field trip:
- the one-room schoolhouse, during both lessons and recess;
- the preacher, who explains the customs of the rural church;
- the blacksmith, who shows how to bend iron and make a cooking fork;
- children dancing folk dances and playing dulcimers; and
- men and women plowing, cooking, spinning, and carving.
This KET production is designed to complement a unit on Kentucky history or Appalachian culture. Local author John David Preston provides historical perspective on the development of the region.
This program premiered on October 19, 1999.
Program of Studies
Social Studies: Cultures and Society, Geography, Historical Perspective
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