Fall Living History: The Last Year of Peace, 1774

Even as Lewistowners in this seaport community prepare for the coming winter and
concern themselves with the mundane happenings of life on the imperial fringes, none
of them could know that the winter ahead heralded the last year of peace any of them
would know for nearly a decade to come. In these tense times, people go on with life as
best they can, bracing themselves for both the long, cold months ahead and the against
fear of violent upheaval in the new year.

Guests visiting the Lewes Historical Society’s Historic Shipcarpenter Street Campus will
step back into the final, fraught months of 1774 to engage with history first-hand. 
Throughout the weekend, they will have the opportunity to meet the inhabitants of
colonial Lewistown (portrayed by costumed living historians!) as they demonstrate
historical activities and grapple with the mixed harvest of familiar crops and
revolutionary ideals to sustain them through the long winter ahead.