I hope your Holiday’s are going well and you have a great new year. I want to thank you all for reading and watching my blog’s over this past year.  This year has been great for the blog,  thousands of visitor’s have come to the blog and lots of them have added the blog to their feeds and that’s great!  I am looking forward to this new year.

 I  just wanted to give you a look at some of our collection’s here at Wampanoag Homesite.  All of our collection’s are reproduction’s and not originals.  I will in this blog show you some bowl’s and spoon’s but we have so much more in our collection’s and I will show you them soon.  We make these bowl’s and spoon’s out of  Burl’s (these are those knot’s you see on trees) .   We make the bowl’s and spoon’s  here at Plimoth Plantation most time’s right in front of the public.   We burn them out with hot coal’s from the fire’s.  

Here’s a bowl made out of a cherry burl it has a effigy of a bear on it.  This bowl is more than 15 year’s old .  This is a serving bowl.

Here is another serving bowl made out of cherry burl.  This has an effigy of a face on it.

This bowl is made out of oak wood.   I would like you guy’s to take a  guess what this bowl has for an effigy on it,  it’s a water animal that’s all I am telling you.   So Please  leave a comment with your guess at the end of this blog.

This is a spoon made out of moose antler and the handle was carved to look like a effigy of a duck head.

This spoon was also made out of moose antler and has a effigy of a turtle on the end of it.

This spoon was made out of maple wood and has an effigy of a hawk on the end handle.

Well everyone these is just a few artifact’s we use in the  Wampanoag Homesite.  I will in upcoming blog’s show you more of our artifact’s in our collection’s.

I hope you like this blog let me know,  look at the end of the blog you will see a comment area please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Tim

Hey Everyone,

Its Tim Turner again the Manager of the Wampanoag Program here at Plimoth Plantation. I just want to tell you to look for some video Blogs on Thanksgiving comming soon. I will interview one of the Pilgrims in the Village and ask them about Thanksgiving and one of our Wampanoag staff members in the Homesite about Thanksgiving too.

I am also going to give you a tour of our exzibit here at Plimoth Plantation thats is on Thanksgiving too. This exzibit go’s into the History of Thanksgiving and how it became to be the holaday we know today. The exzibit will give you a better understanding of the real Thanksgiving and not the Myth’s that we may know about today.

I look forward to bring this to you soon so Please keep visiting the blog .

Thank You!
Timothy Turner

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to show you how well the garden looks today.  Looks great to me what about you ? make a comment at the end of the blog let me know what you think.  

We planted the corn on the weekend of May 25th and ran in to a little problem, and I mean little ,Chipmunks ate all of the seeds after we went home for the day.  Then the girls planted again, and it rained off and on for the next two weeks, so the seed roted in the ground and they had to plant again. 

This is how the garden looks like after the third planting with some time to grow .  I want to thanks the girls for all of your determination and hard work in the garden nice job !  The corn got a hand high and then they planted beans and squash,water melon,sunflowers and pumpkins too. 

 We have been picking  green corn, green beans and summer squash and using it in our food we cook in the homesite.  There is nothing like eating food you grew and how fresh it tastes mm mm good.

Well let me leave you with some pictures (click on read more of post) then make a comment on this blog by clicking on comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks see ya!

I thought I might talk about food this time.   We have not talked about food before,  just a little on the strawberrry thanksgiving post.   The summer for the Wampanoag would of been all about fish and shellfish for food.  At This time of year you would of had just a little corn for seed left,  and you would of used that seed for planting.

This picture has a striped bass roasting over the fire in the homesite.  Fish and shellfish would of been something you ate alot of in the summer time.  This fish is roasting on a spit or a sharp stick over the fire.

We could of  made a big fire and spread out the coal’s and raped the striped bass with clay and let it dry, then bake the fish in clay on the coals too, mm so good done this way!.

Shell fish would of been smoked to save it for winter time.  In the winter you would of moved in land away from the ocean and smokeing shell fish would keep it all winter long.

That’s a little about food I will post more about food as we go here hope this gives you a little look at food, I promiss more to come on this.

thanks

Tim