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Fan Language The guide saved her best for last and wove a web of enchantment around the kids during our final stop in the millinery shop. With a beautifully ornate fan, she carried on a conversation in fan language, stopping to interpret after every message.
1 tried to keep track but at the end of her demonstration, 1 couldn’t remember for sure which signal meant “I’m married” and which meant "Meet me later I’m available.” I’d have been a disaster in colonial times. By the time I’d mastered the code, my reputation would have been in shreds.
After the candlelight walk, we were treated to an informal fife, drum and recorder concert. Two teenagers beat out and tooted the battle calls that were used to relay orders to troops before the invention of walkie-talkies and public address systems.
Their music master performed several tunes that fell into the "easy listening" category in colonial times and then played some popular dance music from two hundred years ago. A few feet tapped around the room but after growing up with rock ‘n’ roll and disco, it was hard for the kids to get into the minuet.
They showed a little mere pep as we-marched out to itye bus behind our pipes ami drummer, a few adventurous spirits from the front of the line even tried an impromptu cross between country
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