Colonial Trade Fair

Javin and some colonials

We went back to the Eighteenth Century again.  This is our final time travel this year and it was only a fifty-minute drive from our home in the Twenty-first Century.  Geographically, it was at Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial - New Philadelphia, Ohio.  My brother, Frank Jarboe, and his wife, Carol, attended the trade fair there October 16 & 17.  (They were at The Fair at New Boston near Springfield, Ohio over the Labor Day weekend.)  So when "Parson John" and "Maggie" are in our area we go see them.

Rena watches the almost lost art of weaving in the 17th century.



Chanelle learns to make a pomador.

 

Dwight talks with his brother - aka Parson John, an itenerate preacher.  A tailor and his wife (left) join the conversation.  The tailor remarked that my clothing was very odd and certainly not in style, but he could clothe me properly for a reasonable fee.



Javin, Chanelle, Stephanie and Scott watch our sister-in-law, Carol - aka Maggie Delaney (indentured servant) do a laundry demonstration.



Javin stands with a Delaware Indian.

A website describing the restored village gives this bit of history.

Schoenbrunn Village was founded in 1772 by a group of Moravian missionaries and Indian converts from Pennsylvania, and was the first white settlement in what is now Ohio. The War for Independence spelled the end of the prospering little community of 60 cabins, church, school, and cemetery. The Moravians had renounced war and refused to bear arms for either side; as a result, they suffered raids from both sides. Reverend David Zeisberger, the leader, decided in 1777 to abandon Schoenbrunn and concentrate all the Ohio missions elsewhere. Members of the Moravian Church relocated the forgotten village in the twentieth century by means of a map preserved by the mother church at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society acquired the site in 1923 and soon reconstructed a number of buildings on their original sites.