The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went to a colonial farm where they have people dressed up who act in character to tell you about what life was like for them. They have pigs, cows, turkeys, geese, sheep, chickens, fields that they actually plant and maintain and a farm house that has a loft for sleeping and a 14 x 14 living space below. What would that have been like.... make your own soap, grow your own food, make your own yarn, a lot of work. When we got there, the son was helping his dad in the tobacco barn, and the daughters were washing dishes from dinner.