Our annual cultural dinner was held recently. This year we were studying the Industrial Revolution, so that was our theme. We chose a British industrial-era menu (listed below.) The ladies wore aprons, bonnets, and shawls; the gentlemen donned hats and vests. We had a smokestack with smoke (a pillar with a chicken wire and polyfill cloud), a clothesline, baskets, an old treadle base, crates, and weaving for decorations. The students' history topic boards were on display as were the younger students' state posters. And at the end of the evening we played a period-correct game before the students challenged their parents in putting together a fourteen-item party favor bag in a real assembly line. The adults were more organized and won, and we only had one (fake) injury which required bandaging. We were having so much fun we took very few photos, but here are the ones we did take.
Menu:
hot tea and coffee
cheese and fruit
homemade oat rolls & butter
cabbage salad
shepherd's pie
chicken pot pie
baked beans with bacon
pear cobbler
chocolate pudding
