Alden House Historic Site

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Alden House Activities

 

The following pictures were taken in about 1998 and feature a group of Alden kindred and guides, dressed in period costume, portraying some of the activities that may have taken place at the Alden homestead over the years. To see an enlarged version of any of these, click on it.  Use your back button on your browser to return to this screen.

Baking Bread in the Alden House kitchen Churning Butter Baby at the table in the Great Room

Checking what is going on outside Arranging a hair do in the parlor Making the bed and tightening the mattress

Measuring for a hem Peeling vegetables in the kitchen Reading in the parlor
The old spinning wheels Drinking tea by the spinning wheel Making candles in the kitchen