Essex County Enviromental Center

Today we headed out to the Essex County Environmental Center for a class about the Lenni Lenape.  Overall, the kids had a good time but there were moments where they thought it was boring.  As Little Miss said to me "The instructor is no Douglas."  Now, the instructor we had today did a fine job.  There is just something about Douglas at Pyramid Mountain that makes him awesome.   Mister B and Little Miss M got to try their hand at grinding corn, creating fire, and making clay pinch pots.

Trying out Blue Spruce needles as hand sanitizer.  It works.

Little Miss getting a piece of spice bush.  You can make tea with it.

We got to excavate some artifacts.

Getting ready to see fire being made.

The instructor made it look easy.

Mr. B gave it a try.  He concluded that this is harder then it looks.

Little Miss grinding corn. From her body language I would say this is not scintillating work.

Mr. B trying an alternative way to create fire.