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I’m wondering if any of you saw any of the Colonial House series on PBS. I watched about all of the episodes when they came out around May 2004, but I haven’t heard much about them since. I wonder why they colonized a location so far north (I believe in Maine), especially when it seemed like they were always freezing (and probably wouldn’t have had a long growing season to start out with).
It was a fascinating program - as was the PBS series about pioneers on the frontier.Maine had a lucrative fur trade I believe. The early colonists could be lazy and let the Indians grow the food while they hunted for furs. They would trade the furs and trinkets for food, but the trouble would start when they started to encroach on the Indian hunting routes or move their settlements on Native sacred grounds. When the colonists began to clear land for agriculture and more settlement, the aggravations got even worse and that’s when conflicts such as the Pequot War broke out………and the Indians usually wound up on the losing end of these conflicts 99% of the time.
That would make more sense. They didn’t show the “colonists” on the show trapping, killing, or skinning minks, rabbits, or other furry creatures, as that would probably have been a bit too much for a tame reality show (or for the families involved playing the colonists…or for the PETA folks who might be watching). If memory serves me correctly, the people on the show engaged in other activities such as agriculture, clam/shellfish hunting, and some fishing.
