Plantation Days November 7, 2010

Craft workers demonstrate the skills practiced by slaves as they prepared the antebellum plantation for harvest time. Each day a different aspect of 18th and 19th-century plantation life will be explored: Domestic Skills, African American Traditional Arts and Low Country Foodways. Visitors can observe interpreters performing domestic skills such as open fire cooking, spinning wool, dipping candles, pressing apples, grinding corn and butter churning. In addition, guests can visit the blacksmith, weaving, pottery and carpentry shops and taste samples of typical Low Country food cooked on an open fire. Included in general admission are complimentary garden overview tours offered on the hour, African American Focus Tours, and all activities associated with Plantation Days. General admission for Active Duty Military with valid ID will be free.