by gwffoundation | Mar 21, 2016 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
Colonial Americans often played cards for leisure and enjoyment and one of the most popular card games of the period was Whist. In this video we show you how to play this game. You can read a bit about the history of playing cards themselves...
by gwffoundation | Feb 25, 2016 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
As modern people, we tend to assume the past is a foreign land where residents’ lives are alien to our own. Would the founding fathers balk at how we dither away our time? Or would they recognize that life without its moments of levity is foolish? Eighteenth century...
