Visited as a family on Sunday 25 August 2013.
Topics covered:
- Aboriginal implements, lifestyle and beliefs using interactive display in visitor's centre
- visited old style school house, discussed the displays there of old style writing, slates, desks, maps etc
- talked about the lifestyle of children of the mid 1800s, games played, things learned, expectations such as knowing times tables well, and having neat script, pointed out that the national anthem was God Save the Queen
- walked through large Georgian home, built on estate in early 1800s, discussed the displays of artifacts collected over the years that the house was lived in by several generations of one family
- listened to a guided tour that discussed the lifestyle of the family that had lived there, travelling, daily activities, finances
- took note of the wear and tear on the house noting that the materials were different than current construction and which ones lasted as well as which ones were not lasting eg stone, steel, lathe plaster
- walked through gardens and discussed plants, native and other, also talked about the brick gutters built to direct water to tanks for use on the gardens
- "played" with period costumes, watched Mum dress up in a dress with layers and hoop skirt
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