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state. There are probably a few ministers around today who'd like to be able to bring that kind of motivation to bear. Churches would be fuller on Sunday mornings and golf courses a lot emptier if it meant a few hours bent over and cramped in the stocks.
With our tour guide, we stopped in briefly at an upper-middle class home. The furnishings weren't too different from the Early American style furniture in vogue today but there was no kitchen in the main house. Instead, as a concession to the ever present danger of fire, it was outside in a separate little building—one of several “necessaries" that were clustered to the rear of the big house.
At the candlemaker’s, we watched a demonstration of how candles were dipped. In colonial times, families collected their own bay berries and honey combs and then took the supplies to the candlemakers to be cooked down and turned into wax. Indoor lighting was a luxury rather than a necessity in colonial times. Children weren’t allowed a nieht light when the household could afford only two or three dozen candles a year.
Basket Weaving No Snap
“A course in basket weaving’’ today descries educational classes that require little or no effort to pass, the kind that the dumb seven foot center on the basketball team takes to keep his eligibility.
In colonial Williamsburg, basket weaving wasn’t a snap, it took, like most of the other professions in town, a five-to-seven year apprenticeship before the craft was mastered. In the basket weaver's shop, we watched nimble fingers send splints back and forth in an intricate pattern that produced basket masterpieces a world away from the plastic, made in Hong Kong, variety found in most modern stores.
Shoes, like baskets, were works of art in colonial times and like wigs, they were expensive. Cost was so high that leather shoes and boots weren’t made for right and left feet but were fashioned so they could be worn interchangeably on either foot to get the most in wearing time.
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