Activities Offer a Slice of Colonial Life at Dey Mansion
Dancing, education, arts and crafts, and weaponry highlighted at Washington's former headquarters.
Adults and children alike received an education in what it was like to live in colonial times at a celebration of George Washington's birthday at the Dey Mansion on Sunday afternoon. Kids watched a glassmaker create small windows of stained glass while others watched a man carve tools and toys out of wood. Attendees watched as actors danced with each other in traditional, colonial style, rotating partners every few minutes, working down a line. Re-enactors fired real muskets and marched together, much to the delight of the children in the audience. Then-General Washington used the mansion, in July, October and November of 1780, during the Revolutionary War. Washington chose the house because the area was strategically ideal because it …
