Field Trip Analysis: Hugueot Street Historic Site

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Field Trip Analysis: Huguenot Street Historic Site On September 20, 2014 I arrived on this very quiet street with big beautiful houses and very clean grassy lawns. There were people playing cricket, shooting bow and arrows at a target, and shooting off guns. They men were dressed in clothes from the 1700s and the women were dressed in dresses from the 1700s. It looked like a remake of what life was life from back then. The place that I arrived at was Huguenot street. It is the oldest street in America and it is a privately owned historic site. We toured a lot of the houses as a class and the church. We had different hosts for each place, and in one of the houses the maid played the character. She pretended that she was a maid from the 1700s and it made us get a better understanding of what life was like back then. We also got to spend some time walking around and talking so some people on our own. The people were very professional by playing in character, so when I went to talk to them, they talked like maid. Before visiting this site, I knew nothing about it. I am not from New York, so this was not one of the sites I learned about in history class. I enjoyed visiting the street though, and I learned a lot. The inside of the houses in general were very different than what we are used to. They are not made for tall people because in every house I had to duck. In the earlier houses, they were very small, expanded outwards instead of building up. They had to go to the bathroom outside, and sometimes 8 people lived in one room. In the first house we visited called the Bevier house, they had a small dark cellar which was where the…show more content…
I liked that it was on the weekend because it made it easier for me to go to. Besides the transportation, I think that the field trip went smoothly and I think it is a good trip to do in the
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