Thursday, November 30, 2006

More of Old Bethpage Restoration Village

The Hat Shop
Everyone wore hats back in the 1800s.
Do you know where the expression came from, "The Mad Hatter"?
Hatters boiled the animal fur to make felt, with mercury!
Years of inhaling mercury, poisoned the hatters!
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Ladies in colonial period clothing, sit and wait and knit some socks for winter.

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The Town Square Bell

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Milk pitcher decorated with the likeness of a pig.

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