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Living history part of Lewes Historical Society celebration
Visitors get a look at dress, activities during the Victorian era
Laura Adie, wearing a custom-made Victorian dress, and Thomas William Tear, also in Victorian attire and a smoking jacket, appear as an upper-class couple in the Burton Ingram House parlor. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
December 14, 2017
Nancy Baybrook, in the Burton Ingram House dining room, is dressed in 1780s wear. Behind her is a painting of the Fannie Kimmey, a three-mast schooner built in 1879 in Milton, one of the largest ships ever built in Sussex County.
Shane Paules is wearing an original 1880s smoking jacket and cap.
BJ Young, left, and Wendel Rittenhouse, dressed in working-class clothes of the 1760s, are preparing a chocolate drink enjoyed during the Colonial period around the holidays. It took about six hours to make 3 pounds of chocolate using these tools.
As Lewes Historical Society Director of Education Marcos Salaverria looks on in the background, Andrew Lyter, education assistant, center, and Todd Rambow prepare English beef stew using a 19th century recipe. The Lewes Historical Society hopes to offer more historical cooking experiences in the future.
Cooked over an open flame, the English beef stew is almost ready for a taste test.
Carrots are ready to be cut up and added to the beef stew.
The Lewes Historical Society Complex was busy Dec. 2 as Lewes ushered in the Christmas season with its annual house tour and parade. Buildings were open for tours, sales were taking place and costumed characters provided a glimpse of life in the Victorian era.
