Cowpens

I an finally caught up !!

Yesterday, we went to Cowpens, they were doing a living history exhibit on women in the Revolutionary War.  It is a three hour drive from our house. 

We had not planned on doing a Jr. Ranger badge. When we got to the desk, the Ranger asked us if we were doing a Jr. Ranger Badge, Lon said he did it already. Then he asked if he did the Overmountian Victory Badge. We have been searching for that badge for two years! We heard about it, it was on websites, for 96, Kings Mountain and Cowpens, but no one had it.  I even called the National Parks Service and they did not have it.  But Lon worked the booklet for it at Cowpens. He was happy to finally be able to get it!

The Wooden Ram Cookery was there, making food for all the reenactors.
 The chickens smelled great!

 a table with all the wonderful things they had to eat and drink

Selling the fruit and vegetables that would be left at this time of year. This time was known as the starving time of year, the larder was almost empty and the new crops had not yet started to come in yet.  It effected everyone of every social class.  If there was no food to buy, it did not matter how much money you had .

Mark checking out the medical tent.  How colonial women on the frontier used medicines, and what they had to work with.  Doctors were rare and expensive.  A healer woman would barter,  you did not have to use cash, that was helpful. Most people had a chicken, but not 10 dollars.

The man in the medicine tent gave Lon some colonial money to see if he could buy an apple.
Lon was nervous about it.

But he did it!

He was sworn in for his new badge. It is a wooden one, and it is smoke scented.
(now happily glued on to his backpack, which we are now keeping in the car)

Trying to build a fire with a flint. Lon was trying to help him.   Sadly, he was not a boy scout, and double sadly he thought he knew more about building a fire than Lon.

Working hard at it, even though it did not light

After a wonderful time walking around, we were hungry!  We stopped in Gaffney at a place called Aegean Pizza.  We ordered an extra large pepperoni pizza, with mozzarella sticks to start.  A Greek Style pizza. That pizza went fast. Lon ordered another small pizza, ate most of it and what was left we took home,  well, we tried to take it home, it did not make it home. Lon finished it on the ride home.

If we go to this place again, Lon wants to order this pizza. He might be able to eat most of it.

Now to go the long way home!