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Thank you Benefactor!!!!!! You made our week with your kindness!!!

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This is very cool! Thank you Benefactor and ArtDC.org for posting this! http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?page=17

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The Memorial Day weekend is nearly upon us! We will be CLOSED MONDAY.

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by Susan Cook, Ecosystem Farm Apprentice

(an excerpt from Field Notes, week 3)

It’s a little after noon and it’s time to eat lunch. I look at my hands and they are caked with dirt. I’ve learned by watching Sky and Becky that one quick and natural way to wash your hands is to pull up a bunch of long grass and rub your hands with it. Voila! Your hands are “clean enough” to eat with. (My standards of “clean enough” have evolved.)

Learning to eat with semi-dirty hands is just one of the many adjustments I’ve happily made since becoming an apprentice.

There are the bruises on my legs I discover when I get home. “How did that happen?!!” is my usual reaction. They look terrible and I usually have little idea about how they got there. And on the hunt for the perfect strawberries, my back aches like crazy. So every now and again, I stand up straight to stretch it out. But wow, once you taste those strawberries, you forget all about it. And then there are the stiff hands that come from using the walk-behind tractor (our BCS) all day to prep some new beds.  And oh yeah, I’m always hungry.

At the end of the day, I usually pick up my partner at the middle school where she teaches in Northeast D.C. By the end of the week, we often stop by San Antonio’s, a local Mexican restaurant for a quick drink and dinner. (A margarita at the end of the day really hits the spot.) Maybe I’m a bit paranoid, but when we walk in, I feel people looking me up and down. Clearly my attire and level of cleanliness is a bit different than theirs. So I immediately head to the bathroom to scrub up. But no matter how long I wash my hands, my fingernails remain dirty. Oh well, luckily I’ve got some good stories to go along with them.

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Leading up to the main event, “That’s Entertainment: The Politics of Mirth”, Museum Theater interns will perform weekend vignettes (or short scenes) to further explore how Maryland colonists past their time through entertainment and diversions from the work day. Vignette performances are held every Saturday and Sunday beginning Saturday, June 16 through Sunday, July 22 on the National Colonial Farm exhibit site at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.

“Cocker’s Brawl” – Introducing visitors to cock fighting–the second most popular sport during the 18th century–scenes explore what was involved in setting up a cock fight and why it was important in understanding the social aspect and popularity of sport.

This post is a reprint of a post that originally appeared at Accokeek Foundation.

Leading up to the main event, “That’s Entertainment: The Politics of Mirth”, Museum Theater interns will perform weekend vignettes (or short scenes) to further explore how Maryland colonists past their time through entertainment and diversions from the work day. Vignette performances are held every Saturday and Sunday beginning Saturday, June 16 through Sunday, July 22 on the National Colonial Farm exhibit site at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.

“Cocker’s Brawl” – Introducing visitors to cock fighting–the second most popular sport during the 18th century–scenes explore what was involved in setting up a cock fight and why it was important in understanding the social aspect and popularity of sport.

This post is a reprint of a post that originally appeared at Accokeek Foundation.

Leading up to the main event, “That’s Entertainment: The Politics of Mirth”, Museum Theater interns will perform weekend vignettes (or short scenes) to further explore how Maryland colonists past their time through entertainment and diversions from the work day. Vignette performances are held every Saturday and Sunday beginning Saturday, June 16 through Sunday, July 22 on the National Colonial Farm exhibit site at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.

“Cocker’s Brawl” – Introducing visitors to cock fighting–the second most popular sport during the 18th century–scenes explore what was involved in setting up a cock fight and why it was important in understanding the social aspect and popularity of sport.