DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '02 I => Topic started by: VAM on April 11, 2002, 07:36:26 PM
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Just wondering what sort of extracurricular activities these folks may of had. Perhaps Abigail sang in the choir at church ::)Naomi was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous...You get the idea. What are your thoughts?
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I would expect the ladies to do needlework. Reading probably was a hobby.
I can see Naomi doing needlepoint.
Joshua would probably read dull books.
Tanis
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I think horseback riding and walking were popular things to do. If one had artisitic talent, drawing would be another one. I'm a modern day Mom who doesn't have to work, a luxury in this day, a regular thing back then. With all the Collins's hired servants, I can picture a lady getting quite bored unless she had some kind of a schedule. I think planning things to do would be at the top of my list!
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Oh my gawd, Cheryl.....I thought I was the last full-time-stay-at-home-Mom left in America!! Do people treat you like a traitor to the cause? I'm surrounded by successful career women, both friends and family, who think I'm wasting my education....but none of them has kids and all have privately admitted to me that it isn't the staying at home they envy me....it's the daughter. ;)
As far as hobbies in 1795....well, perhaps the wealthy had time for needlepoint and reading...but the average American in 1795 was too busy surviving from one day to the next to need hobbies! ::)
Rainey
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Hi Rainey,
It's nice to be in the one percent of all women who are stay at home Moms. We are privileged! I worked in a corporate office for 11 years. Been there, done that. It's nice to have a choice and to be able to do what you want. I certainly do not envy the women of 1795, especially their clothing. I would die here in Las Vegas in the summer time wearing all that!
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Apparently they played the "clavachord" in 1795 as well.
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I know they played board games such as backgammon.
By the way, this post did not ask to historically document activities but to create some for the folks at Collinwood. I guess the query was not clear. Oh well, we are getting some interesting responses...
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Naomi admitted to Daniel that she liked to play cards. I actually pictured Barnabas as a child making model ships, perhaps Jeremiah, too.
Joshua would short-sheet Ben Stokes' bed. Abigail secretly read "French" books.
Gerard
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Naomi said that she had little to do, because Abigail insisted on running the house. Which would definately have been Naomi's territory as the lady of the house. But with her tippling, she may have resented it more than she tried to actually do it herself.
Ladies of the day were big on needlework. A necessary task even for the upper classes. And music would have been a part of their lives. The men seem to have been more work oriented and not ones to putter about building things at home! After all, they had Ben for that.
I would love to salute our stay at home moms! I think it wonderful, except that I'm jealous. I stayed at home from the adoption of my oldest son to the point of my divorce. Wish I would win Freelotto so I could do it again.
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Cheryl and Raineypark you would fit in quite nicely in my neighborhood. There are several stay at home moms. I work part-time and believe me that is enough. Enjoy and never feel guilty, staying at home sometimes is a lot harder than going out to work. The benifts are so many to be able to be there for your children growing up, so many can't now. I feel very fortuate that I have been able to arrange my scedule so I never lost too much time with my gang.
O.K. back to the topic on hand, another hobby might have been therum painting. Not too sure of the spelling. It is painting on velvet with oils using stencils. I use to do some of that. Great fun. Love to stencil. My next project will be the kids bathroom. Oh well, I think Abigail stitched samplers on the good book. Hanging in her room is one she stitched saying "Beware of the Paths of Evil".
Well, back to my cross stitch. Yet another sampler. My daughter wants to know why we have some many with the alpabet hanging in our house.hehe
Birdie xxx xxx xxx xxxx
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I think Peter Bradford would make a good coach for a baseball team (if they had one) since he spends a great deal of his time screaming & yelling! ;D
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Oh, I know EXACTLY how fortunate I am to be home with my kid....I'm the one who gets to meet the teachers, see the plays, and hear the concerts. I've met every one of her friends (because I drive them all EVERYWHERE) and know all of their parents....because they all have me on their emergency lists. I have a permanent "sick kid" kit in my car, I pick them up from school so often!
And, when my working friends call in sick at the office, because they need a mental health day, they call me next, because I know all the restaurants and tea shops in the area.
I may not earn a dime in money...but I earn heaps and heaps in gratitude!! [lghy]
Oh, and if I lived in 1795 Collinsport, my hobby would be collecting Headstone Rubbings....isn't it amazing how fast those headstones go up!! ;D
Raineypark
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Oh, I know EXACTLY how fortunate I am to be home with my kid....I'm the one who gets to meet the teachers, see the plays, and hear the concerts. I've met every one of her friends (because I drive them all EVERYWHERE) and know all of their parents....because they all have me on their emergency lists. I have a permanent "sick kid" kit in my car, I pick them up from school so often!
And, when my working friends call in sick at the office, because they need a mental health day, they call me next, because I know all the restaurants and tea shops in the area.
I may not earn a dime in money...but I earn heaps and heaps in gratitude!! [lghy]
Oh, and if I lived in 1795 Collinsport, my hobby would be collecting Headstone Rubbings....isn't it amazing how fast those headstones go up!! ;D
Raineypark
i'm also lucky i just work per diem in a recovery room as a nurse about 8 or 12 hours a week so i'm also around a lot !
jennifer
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I think Peter Bradford would make a good coach for a baseball team (if they had one) since he spends a great deal of his time screaming & yelling! ;D
LoLCassasndra but he'd have a hard time wearing a cap and covering that head of hair!!!
jennifer
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Vam
i think Auntie Abbie would be under the covers reading romance novels ! the ones with the pictures of those hulk men on the covers!
jennifer
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I'm surrounded by successful career women, both friends and family, who think I'm wasting my education....
Hi Raineypark, Why would they say that you're wasting you education? You can always choose to go back to school or work when your children are grown. ;) Women have so many opportunites these days. I think that's great that you are a stay at home mom too. I gave up a wonderful & high paying job 20 years ago to stay at home and raise my two teenage daughters, who are now 19(soon) and 16 years old and I wouldn't have changed it for the world! Seeing them grow up, taking them to friend's birthday parties, swimming lessons,ballet, the park, etc,etc, was well worth all the money any job could offer. I knew who they were with all the time and who their friends were and their parents as well. Now that they're older, we share a special bond and they talk to me all the time, (which is good, especially during the teenage years!) Now, Im working part time, so you can always go back later on. Unfortunately, some women are forced to work because they're the the only ones paying the bills, and I really feel for them. I salute you and Cheryl and all the other stay at home moms as well! [oky]
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Oh, I know EXACTLY how fortunate I am to be home with my kid....I'm the one who gets to meet the teachers, see the plays, and hear the concerts. I've met every one of her friends (because I drive them all EVERYWHERE) and know all of their parents....because they all have me on their emergency lists. I have a permanent "sick kid" kit in my car, I pick them up from school so often!
And, when my working friends call in sick at the office, because they need a mental health day, they call me next, because I know all the restaurants and tea shops in the area.
I may not earn a dime in money...but I earn heaps and heaps in gratitude!! [lghy]
Oh, and if I lived in 1795 Collinsport, my hobby would be collecting Headstone Rubbings....isn't it amazing how fast those headstones go up!! ;D
Raineypark
I left my PT(part-time, not to be confused with parallel time altho I sometimes felt I was in another world at my job) office nursing position after seven years. The simple 20 hour/week job had turned into 40+ hours/ week. Weekends were a blur of housework and running errands. I've been home since August of last year and I'm loving my free time. I miss some of my co-workers but not the crazy atmosphere that was our office.
Anyhow, if I were one of the ladies of Collinwood, I'd be busy getting dress fittings for all those gala parties that were planned but never held, sitting in the garden reading scandalous books that just arrived from England, doing needlepoint, and getting the vapors when some young man dared to kiss me on the cheek without permission.
Back then, careers for women were limited to arranged marriages, positions as governess, plying one's trade along the waterfront or being a poor spinster selling apples & oranges to pay next month's rent. Even a modest inheritance didn't guarantee you a life of ease if marriage wasn't in your future.
In some ways, women have come a long way!