Taverns and the Art of Conversation in the 1700's | Living History | Frontier Life

[@Dan_TheMedievalGuild]

You are absolutely right about people not being able to have an intelligent conversation much anymore without someone becoming offended or angry. Then it turns into a heated exchange which could have been prevented if everyone would have remained civil to each other. I hope you are doing well sir.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

You’ve hit the nail on the head. We are doing well and trust you and your clan are as well .

[@Dan_TheMedievalGuild]

@@TheWoodlandEscape Yes sir we are. My wife and I are living daily with anticipation of the next day. I'm trying to get some props together so that I can start filming some videos myself.

[@Shaden0040]

My favorite quote and I can't remember where or when or who said it but those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

George Santayana, known as the great American Thinker … gutted is from 1905.

[@kentreichow7567]

Your shows are so great thank you for putting out these informative shows I wish there was even more shows from you

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad you like them! You flatter me, sir!

[@martinmeltzer2696]

Hey Peter! If I live to be a Hundred, I don't think that I will ever forget Ol' Spencer Tracy in "Northwest Passage", using a red hot iron to heat up some Hot Buttered Rum! It looked so good!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Great movie!

[@martinmeltzer2696]

@@TheWoodlandEscape I hope that you enjoy the novels "Oliver Wiswell", "Arundel", and "Rabble In Arms" as well. I envy your opportunity to read them for the first time! Savor them!

[@RavenCro-g8t]

The Taverns of the 1700's sound very similar to the Roadhouses of the early 1900's in Alaska. The Richardson highway, which connects Valdez to Fairbanks and was known as the Valdez trail (runs right passed my house), was originally one such trail connected by these roadhouses, situated about a day's journey apart. Dog sleds and horses hauled freight and passengers in all seasons of the year. Here in our town of Delta Junction, we have historic Sullivan's roadhouse, a worthy stop for anyone passing through. I always enjoy your "wee bit of history". Great job on Kelly Station... it's really looking cool, like every grown kid's dream. Thanks for all you do, and for taking us along. Peace to you from Alaska! ~Tim

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It is a dream come true and nearing completion. You live in a beautiful part of the world! Imagine back in the day when these roadhouses would have teams of dogsleds pulling I!

[@hayward434]

Maritimes, checking in. A good video, enjoy your week-end.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks, you too!

[@earlshaner4441]

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else and thank you for sharing live history videos and information

[@popsforgeblacksmithing]

I'm also in Syracuse

[@earlshaner4441]

@@popsforgeblacksmithing Hi my friend so are you a working forge? Because I am looking for a forge to make some stuff for me?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks Earl!

[@earlshaner4441]

@@TheWoodlandEscape you are welcome brother

[@earlshaner4441]

@@TheWoodlandEscape any time brother

[@jonmullenax3173]

Top Notch videos every time!!!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I am flattered.

[@robdixon7732]

Happy Friday my friend!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Same to you my friend.

[@JeffGloverArts]

Thanks as always for the history!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Our pleasure!

[@JohnVance-fz1rd]

i like watching your show thanks

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks for watching!

[@8626John]

Always a treat to sit down to lunch on Fridays and take a trip back to the 18th century. Thank you Peter and Cathy.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Our pleasure to help you on that journey, John.

[@daveyjoweaver6282]

Hello Peter and Kathy! Looks like a fine roof indeed! There is a great deal of satisfaction and accomplishment when you’re crawling about the roof of the building you’re finishing up. Especially when it’s made of beautiful wood! And it alway amused me when in the spring of the year you make neat rows in the garden after preparing the soil and staking up string for straight rows, carefully spacing the seeds and eagerly awaiting the first sprouts to push their way to the surface. So, pretty, so beautiful and so Lovely! And then the warm and rains and long days and finally? Well you’re looking for your spuds in between all the many plants that found the Lovely and carefully planted garden ideal for summers growth. When it all happens you’re building a stockade and a blacksmith shop and hosting tons of great folks! But still you were able to find and harvest dinner! Cool! The Amish always put me to shame, as their gardens look as good in the fall as they do in spring. And I recon it was much more like the Amish garden in the 18th century. Especially when your lives depended on what you grew and meat you could harvest. Since we live in the woods there isn’t much sun for good gardening. It has grown in over the years. But there are Amish garden stands in all direction and very close, fortunately so. But as for taverns they were the hub of a community. In Lancaster county there was Postlethwaites Tavern on the way to the Susquehanna River near the town of Conestoga that served as the county seat from 1729-1730, until it was moved to Lancaster. Lancaster is the oldest inland city and served as the US Capital for one day during the Revolution. It was then moved to the city of York across the Susquehanna with the mile wide river as a stockade from the British. What hard times in so many ways, let alone a war with the largest army in the world! Years ago I did some metal detecting and found over a dozen King George Coppers, half pennies, the oldest readable date being 1739. In the 1760s a traveler could spend the night at Postlethwaites that included a meal. Probable that big pot of infinite stew you mentioned! When I found these coppers I became aware of the huge loss it was for those who dropped them. What’s the cost of a hotel room and a meal today? Imagine losing that amount today! Taverns aside from the news center, court room, drink and food and social meeting place, it served a very important necessity. In the small village of Lampeter Lancaster County, it was a stopping point for the Conestoga Wagons to rest before taking or picking up freight to and from Philadelphia to Lancaster 3-4 miles away and also York, 15-20 miles. In Lampeter were and still the buildings survive, two taverns, one brick and one stone. Under the town square there was a tunnel that connected the two. The tavern owners despised each other but the son of one and daughter of the other fell in love despite their father’s hatred. They would secretly meet via this tunnel. One night the daughter warned her lover that her father found out and it would be him coming through the tunnel and not her. So he sat in waiting with a gun and when the father came through! BANG! But unfortunately he shot and killed his tree love. I had good friends who lived in the brick tavern and rode their bikes back and forth through that tunnel. They are the ones who told me this story. There was a wide board in the attic nailed on two posts. When prisoners were being taken to Lancaster jail they were shackled around that wide board for the night. You could see the cupped out wear in the middle of that wide board where the chains connecting the cuffs slid back and forth during the night. My friends also said the building was very haunted. I had friends years ago who were neighbors of the stone tavern owners. Where the bar was the wide pine floor had been refinished. There were several areas where sprays of bird shot had been sanded into and appeared as shiny spots under the varnish from tavern fights. And here I was going to stick to gardens and veggies! Everyone and every place has a story, a history and many times an entire novel. We are blessed if we know our own families or others as well! Within every soul is a huge history book! And Thank You So Much for sharing yours and your knowledge Peter and Kathy! Many Blessings, Fine Harvests and HAPPY shingling. DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Seriously, Davey, you simply must write a book. So much to digest in your comments. Nothing beats a true love story, but the ending of the story left a wee bit to be desired. If and when I can make another extended road trip, I believe I will focus on visiting as many 18/19th century taverns as possible. It would be a fascinating study. Thanks as always, Davey, for your thought provoking comments.

[@joannerodgers5205]

The Jean Bonnet Tavern in Bedford, PA, was the place farmers came to protest the whiskey tax in 1794. George Washington sent troops there to quash the insurrection. It remains a lovely place to dine, drink, and spend the night. It even has its own ghost.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I’ll have to add it to my visit list, especially if it’s got a resident ghost!

[@martinmeltzer2696]

Hey Peter! I always thought that it was interesting that some of the first debates that a young community would have had... would have been what to build first, after their homes were up? A Church, a Courthouse, a Town Hall, or a Tavern. Each would serve a different purpose... but all of them essential. In addition all of them would have had some eloquent spokesmen advocating for their preference.. Pastors, Lawyers, Politicians, & Businessmen! I like your quote... and I intend to "borrow" it... with no intention of returning it anytime soon!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Your last comment gave me a good giggle! You forgot the blacksmith shop in your list. I’m thinking it might be right up there.

[@martinmeltzer2696]

@@TheWoodlandEscape You are absolutely right about the Blacksmith Shop! They turned out SO many essential items for the locals and were respected for their specialized skills & knowledge! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Regardless of how well-spoken (or not) the Blacksmith was! A School House would probably be ANOTHER consideration as well! (So much to do... so little time!)

[@danpatch4751]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge today🍺.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Our pleasure!

[@oldschoolboyscout]

I stayed in a tavern in a small village outside of Ostrava in Moravia. In the evening it filled up with locals who drank, smoked, and fellowshiped. Lots of fun.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

My kind of a tavern experience!

[@ryanstottlemyer5698]

Thank you, Kathy and Peter for another very interesting video. My sons of the American revolution group is getting ready for the 250 year anniversary, Mecklenburg, Virginia(now present day, Shepherdstown, West Virginia) sent a company of rifleman to Lexington and Concord, the Berkeley rifleman. as always, thank you very much for the wonderful historical videos

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Our pleasure! I’m hoping to attend a number of event in the anniversary year of the Rev War.

[@the18thcenturygardener57]

I hope to sit down and converse with you, over a week dram, regarding that lovely garden, next spring at Prickett's Fort School of the Long Hunter.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I’ll most definitely be there and the dram is on me my friend. We might need more than one!

[@franciswashack89]

The thoughts of a man's heart are like deep waters, but the discerning man draws them out. Conversation was so much more meaningful in the past, and among those that value it's art, it still is. Very nice video Peter.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It appears you’ve not lost the art, thank you.

[@Cid1758]

Great stuff yet again 👍

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Badhabit-cx1ch]

I still have me great great grandfather's toddy rod. ,, we start makeing the flip around oct.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Going to have forge out a few in the blacksmith shop. I’m looking forward to trying it …. I think!

[@kevinharding2099]

Three things. First, I’ve done my share of roofing, and I would advise tying yourself off with a line to that chimney. One mistake can be costly. Two. I have read that cider and beer were often preferred to water that sometimes was of questionable quality. Something with an alcohol content was considered a safer drink. Three, I grew up in Lexington. It was John Prescott.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you, I had his name on the tip of my tongue, but couldn’t quite remember it. Sound advice on the fall protection, I’ll be heeding your council.

[@Blrtech77]

Peter, Once again a great video and I Love the Quote about History! Thanks My Friend and Be Safe Out There.

[@anthonyberger225]

Thanks Peter very nice video 👍

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks 👍, glad you enjoyed.

[@Anthony-s1j1n]

Thank you so much Peter for all the history you share with us, I'm always looking forward to each of you're videos.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Your words are both pleasing and encouraging, thank you.

[@rickcooper6817]

Thanks for the story, friends. Conversation as we have known it, is surely a thing of the past. I listen today in disbelief of what I hear or the lack thereof. Mostly the clicking of the keypad of phones as everyone is texting. I'm almost astounded that our youngsters can even speak. If you happen to overhear a group talking, you can rest assured that out of 40 works spoken, the word "like" will be used at least a dozen times. Makes a fellow want to go to the tavern. Roof is looking very good Mr. Peter, be safe up there. Caught a glimpse of the frog as you were filming at the pond Ms. Cathy. I'm sure it was ready for a bit of refreshment also. Blessings to you all.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Funny, you mention going off to the tavern for real conversation. We were recently at a pub when a group of 20 to 30 year olds dropped. About 8 as recall and they immediately got out their phones… I think they were texting each other. Sad, so sad!

[@markbehr88]

Great episode. 👍🎉😊

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I thank you sir.

[@kena2224]

It has been some time since I've been able to watch your videos and have a lot of catching up to do. They all look good, coffee poured and away we go :)

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Welcome back! We appreciate your continued interest.

[@elwoodtaylor1092]

Hi Mr. Kelly nice shakes and thanks for the upload

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad you like them!

[@riverrockproductions]

Washington stayed at the Salem tavern here in NC in his 1791 southern tour. The building is still standing. My personal claim to fame with His Excellency is that my many greats grandfather, Issac Levan, was aide to Gen. Anthony Wayne. Upon Wayne’s wounding at Stony Point, my grandpap was sent through the night to fetch Washington and lead him back to Wayne’s headquarters. It’s in his pension application. Pretty fascinating stuff!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That is indeed fast stuff and I thank you for sharing.

[@hayfielddraw4364]

Over the last eight months, I'm sorry to say, I haven't been able to watch many of your videos. Which is a real shame, because I truly cherish them, and watching them used to be a beloved tradition of my Saturday mornings. Happy to say, I've got a lot to catch up on now. Thank you for all that you provide.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Welcome back! I do hope it has not been illness.

[@thomasyoung7429]

Hi ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO LOVE THE LITTLE Talk about historical bits have a great day Thomas young

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@victortuten4399]

Love it! Thanks to a verticillium wilt issue from some tainted plants I have moved my garden to raised beds. At least the nightshade family of plants. They did OK this year but not great. LOL...I did make an abundance of gourds. The birds will have new homes in the spring and my granddaughter will have fun painting some of the smaller ones. I even plan on making me a gourd powder holder and measure. Finding a cork to stop the end is not as easy as it used to be!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Ah, the challenges and rewards of a garden. It is a good feeling though to be be self sufficient.

[@nhmountains5683]

Good stuff Peter. You’re getting closer to 100k subscribers. That’s awesome. You’ve come a long way in a short time. Time flies.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks 👍. We certainly appreciate the support from people like you.

[@ianandresen2326]

I couldn't agree more on what you just said! I am willing to enjoy some( frill)? At the tavern! Thanks for the video!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Perhaps I’ll send you an invite to you when I experiment with make Flip!

[@caroljordan2886]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and wisdom. I’m putting in a garden in a new place this year. You are inspiration

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Wonderful! Good luck with your future garden.

[@jeanadamsick9854]

INTERESTING!! Do take care. Fl., USA

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you! Will do!

[@jasonswain3948]

Awesome work on the shop! I’m looking forward to seeing it finished!

[@Shaden0040]

they actually use different coaches in the winter time some had sleigh runners and they also had little boxes in the center of the carriage where they would put coals sometimes they would use coal sometimes they would use wood but they would place the coals in the box and the box would be deep metal box that would go through the floor of the coach And let fresh air into the cold and the heat would rise and you put your feet next to the colds next to the little box That would get hot and hold heat so you'd keep warm that way and the the were vellum or glass windows depending on how prosperous the coach keeper is yeah we call them stage coaches here in the western part of the US book coaches or carriages slaves depending on time of year there are various different modes of transportation that were really good and usually if you had a roadway the road wasn't plowed but the snow got packed down to the horse's hooves and the carriage wheels in the sleigh runs so the snow would get packed down it would be the layer of thick ice on the bottom of the road so it wasn't on cloud and the source just didn't always have to go through Drifts of snow you know chest deep or ankle deep is already planned because while I was being used the snow would get trampled down and packed down.

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Early school wagons around here would use heated bricks on the floor and would help warm the kids from below inside their blankets.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That is some fascinating history and information you’ve shared, thank you.

[@richardofsylmar]

I appreciate all of the contact in your videos. Thank you.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad you like them!

[@PATCsawyer]

Whoa flashback at ~4:00...... I remember my mother distancing our trips around Michigan back in the 1950s as being "two or three beers down the road". Back when driving from Detroit to Alpena was an all day adventure.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That kinda dates the both of us, Pat.

[@jackcook8613]

Nice work on the roof, Peter. That looks awesome. You're right about people today. They just don't socialize like they did back then. Computers..... You don't have to leave the house to talk to anyone. Have a restful labor day. It's Monday down here south of the border.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

What I don’t understand is if two people are texting one another why don’t they just call and talk. The darn thing does both!

[@jeffgrier8488]

Thanks for the video, i definitely believe what you said about the art of conversation, everyone is too busy with their phones today. Your garden looks great by the way! We are currently overrun by tomatoes and peppers, they have gone crazy this year.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Exactly! Our job this coming week is to start canning tomatoes … like you, we’re a bit overrun.

[@marcdewilde518]

As far as I know potage in French nowadays means soup, but in those days perhaps a soup with lots of vegetables in it? Interesting as always. Greetings from Flanders.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I suspect simply keeping the same concoction going would lend to its flavor!

[@alanpinn2266]

Another great video Peter. Any topic surrounding a tavern is always good entertainment. And nice harvest in the garden! Is that one of Nick's knives on your neck? I spent a great weekend with Nick a couple of weeks ago at Fort Anne. Keep up the good work. Cheers!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Yes, it is and a fine blade it is. As to taverns, you as a musician have seen your fair share of them!

[@lancehenderson7249]

Great video and wee bit of history. Kellys Fort is coming along nicely. Keep your powder dry

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We’re getting there! Watch yer top knot!

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Speaking of the pottage story, we had a little burger place around here that was famous for using the original grease from 1912. Getting to know the owner, I knew better to believe the story was true because the burgers would create grease every time they cooked one and it had to be removed occasionally. He explained that there might be one molecule in there of the original grease, but it did make a good story!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Hard to beat a good story, one shouldn’t let the truth get in the way of a good story!

[@Dave-ov1ub]

You always provide interesting historical information. And yes, please demonstrate a flip!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Coming to the Tavern soon. Thanks for your interest.

[@stephankramb204]

Thanks, I injoyed this.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad to hear it!

[@jeffersonspace]

Interestingly, I recall John le Carré (espionage novelist), mentioning how British spies during the cold war would get the best intel from certain bars located in Bern. Thanks for the video!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

There are many similar historical accounts of taverns serving as an intel purpose!

[@michaelbarry4749]

Hi Peter. You can gather quite an audience. I noticed on your right by that small rock at the 13:24 mark on your video a small frog stopped by to listen also. You're quite a speaker.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Didn’t realize I can speak frog, moose yes, but frog. You flatter me with your kind words.

[@smoothvern165]

Your talks on history are so interesting and informative, and I always learn something new! I love your KZbin channel!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you so much. You flatter me, sir.

[@jimbriggs3065]

Spot on Peter! A mate and I are contemplating a visit to the Cedar Hollow Tavern. Cheers!!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That would be grand.

[@beverlymichael5830]

The art of conversation is lost. We use to talk one to another. I miss that. Now it’s a text. So impersonal. Great wee bit of history today. Not sure if I would indulge in that beverage. But if you make it I will be watching.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

What I don’t get about texting, is if both parties are typing why don’t they just make a call. Heck, it’s the same darn device.

[@ashleyanderson2859]

Appreciate your efforts and dedication! The flip sounds as if it were a meal replacement. Enjoyable as beverage. I'm not sure about that? Discourse, among others, is not uncommon, but how to be open to other's views and interpretations is dying. We no longer have the ability to live and let live. I find myself wrong more often than I find myself right. Having the ability to learn and not be hurt from our own ignorance is a catalyst for personal growth. Thanks again, and keep your powder dry!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It is indeed required for personal growth. Watch yer top knot.

[@jant4741]

Fine garden too! 👍

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

A wee bit weedy , but productive… thanks for watching.

[@kellydietz6720]

Oh how I've missed you guys, ❤️

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Welcome back!

[@kellydietz6720]

@@TheWoodlandEscape we have been traveling this summer, New Grandson,

[@JanTrewhitt]

Thank goodness for the autos of our century!! Blessings.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Imagine no heater or air conditioner … we’ve become a wee bit soft!

[@kevindevine5102]

thanks

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

You're welcome!

[@marieleopold1625]

Well, I know that; 'Fred' isn't around...for the wee frog that showed up by the pond, (with you on the dock) would not have made it to the pond = WHEW! Lovely vid dear Catherine...as ever! And dear Peter, on the roof (beautiful shake work by-the-way), at the pond, near the tavern on the chair = hard to keep up with you! VERY interesting topic and WHOAAaaa did Catherine's father ever have it right when he said; 'There goes conversation.' (paraphrased) = incoming of the radio into the home. HOW TRUE! I am a 'conspiracy theorist' and well believe that there is reason to the madness of technology...for it is good here and then...VERY bad there. We have succumbed and indeed 'lost the art of conversation'. My hub journeyed to Ireland in '78 to visit relatives, and returned with a few colloquialisms, such as; "Goin' out for me dailies, now.' = On bike to the market for some groceries and thereby learning of all the 'latest news' + food. It makes a community, as long as 'gossip' is held in check...Does that happen? LOL! I imagine the ingredients to the 'flip' recipe were enough to do precisely that...make a body 'FLIP'! = YIKES! My gratitude for your wee-bits, Fort- Master Peter! "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." (Khalil Gibran). Gorgeous garden by-the-way! Health and blessings dear ones! :)

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

What a profound quote, mind you, I’ve come to expect nothing less from you, Marie. I’d say when it comes to eloquent speech, you my friend have not lost the ability.

[@marieleopold1625]

@@TheWoodlandEscape Thank-you most kindly. Too kind...just toooo kind! :)

[@KennyRider137]

Just read a book from that era and the writing is so elegant.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Quite different from modern day literature!

[@patriciavanlouwe6636]

Really enjoyed this one Peter and Cathy. Guess all those old Western movies I watched are wrong, since you made no mention of the "ladies of the night " who always seemed to be part of the tavern scene.😮

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Actually sister, those old movies are pretty accurate, but the era is 100 years later than the time period we portray.

[@thatsthewayitgoes9]

Thank you

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks for watching.

[@jefflanham1080]

We’ve even lost our cafes along lonely highways!! All you can find are convenient stores with barely more than candy bars and stale nachos!! Damn, we’ve even lost the truck stop diners….now you get a Subway or other fast food with no counter and a cute waitress to talk to at 4 in the morning!! We’re going backwards now!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We are indeed in reverse, Jeff. I agree with your comments totally.

[@tomritter493]

Yes sir it was the start to the end of conversation

[@paulfrizzell31]

👍great video

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you.

[@paulfrizzell31]

@@TheWoodlandEscape 🙂

[@hartmuthvogler6341]

dein garten ist wunderschön, du bist ein profi !👍😊

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you.

[@allcapitols1554]

I'm pretty sure that Al Gonquin was the proprietor of a tavern.

[@eileencarroll6418]

Give me a good Irish Public House any day. Were there many Irish immigrants running taverns in your area back then? In Chicago, corner taverns were being built in the middle of residential neighborhoods up into the 1960s. Their existence survived replacement by electric refrigerators, but their true demise came on the tails of affordable televisions that competed with the need for social connections and conversations. Irish people seem to have preserved the need for gathering by nurturing the connections with music, dance, song, (pub quizzes?) and of course good stories elevated to high art. In Ireland, the Dance Hall Act of 1935 required licensing of locations to hold dances properly. House dances and crossroads dances where couples might be crowded into dancing too close were replaced by the more proper licensed venues. Also, poorer communities in Ireland did not get electricity until the 1960s. The global folk music revival at that time sparked a revival of traditional folk music in Ireland that further bolstered Irish pub culture. Many of the tunes that reemerged were as much as 400 years old. Similarly the Irish folk music revival grew in North America and anywhere the Irish diaspora took its people. You might go into an Irish pub in Australia, Boston, Germany, Dubai, South Korea or Japan to start a conversation; and if you ask five times nicely, you just might get them to sing a song. ❤️🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶❤️🎶❤️

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks for sharing that wonderful story … nothing beats a pint in a real Irish Pub, especially if they don’t have a TV!

[@andrewryder70]

Awesome video as always, any recommendations on what type of wool to use for leggings?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you. Typically in the 18/19th century a material known as broadcloth was used . It is an extremely tight weave of thin wool. Red, blue or black with red being the most common/documented colour.

[@andrewryder70]

@@TheWoodlandEscape ok thank you, was stuck there for a second

[@Shaden0040]

what you call a flip iron we call in the United States A or in England a mold cider poker or a rod sometimes used for mulling wine and mulling is just you get the hot poker and you tip it into the liquid and it warms it up it's not boiling but it's close to it or like maybe 150 degrees and the cool down to about a hundred and forty hundred and thirty so hot bath water temperature. and it's called a mowing rod or molly poker basically they used to use a poker from a fireplace wash it off put in the fire get it hot take it up tap on a couple of them skinny ash off it and then poke it into the into the liquid in the in the mug when I say a mug I mean like a large mug like a flag in or half pint pint sized yeah pint sized.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Wow, I appreciate you sharing such great information.

[@ianmccrane6755]

For a great description of travel and roadside inns, read Dickens' short story, "The Holly-Tree Inn." You have a wonderful channel sir. Thank you!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Always looking for winter reading material, thanks for the compliment as well as the recommendation.

[@Vikingwerk]

5:55 modern cotton cloth is a marvelous invention; hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and as durable as a wet paper napkin! 😂

[@rlwoods61]

Every town had a "Committee of Correspondence". Whose job it was "to communicate with committees of correspondence in other towns in this province, to give the earliest intelligence to the inhabitants of this town of any designs that they shall discover at any subsequent period against our natural and constitutional rights." My 5th Great Grandfather was on this committee in Princeton, Mass. He responded to call to arms at Concord and Lexington.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Taverns most certainly played a significant intel gathering place.

[@Shaden0040]

I've never heard Lexington Green called the common ground is she the Commons or common or the green like there's a Boston Common and there's a Boston Gardens which are two separate areas but the adjacent to each other one was for grazing your cattle and the other one was for relaxing during the summer time you could have picnics and there's park benches and other stuff there's coupon you go fishing although it's not very deep but they're coy in there or a carpet should say not necessarily coy. but I've been to Lexington Concord and Mexican conquered area and the Concord Green is not very large it's like maybe a football field half a football field wide and long kinda squeish with the period houses around it more 18th century than 17th century because a lot of them burned down a lot of them got taken down as people became more prosperous they wanted a better house so they would do that or they would add on to it period now between Lexington and Concord there's the Concord Bridge which is a beautiful bridge if you ever get a chance to see it just come see it for the bridge I don't care about the history part of it but the bridge is beautifully constructed out of heavy oak Timbers found in the area to cut in the area. And they cross that bridge when they got to it and continued on to like to conquer like she team was the closest point to Boston and Concord was a little bit further away. so most of the areas in the center of all cities and towns it was called a common cause of common ground for everyone to graze and to keep cattle or sheep When you bring your animals into the center of town to be butchered or sold they're also the very stupid stock yards there was a stockyard in Somerville or Cambridge excuse me Cambridge near Harvard Square and there is still the steps of the stockyard where they would bring the cattle up to the area and it's so fancy and not very well offensive but it's fenced in and people would step up onto the one step and the second step and it is a big platform there probably what maybe 6 foot square with a Ridge on it and they would shout out the animal type and what they wanted for it and then you would bid on it or not and then the auction would begin and either the price would go up come down kind of interesting but most cities had a stockyard area where they could bring animals in to be held to head towards market. but every area city or town leaving little villages had a green or a Commons area And the calms ears were all the cattle could feed free of charge cause it was a common ground But everything shorted to just the Commons And the green was just generally a green area wasn't necessary for forefather for animals I don't know if Green was fenced in or not but the Commons were fenced in because he would let the animals roam once they were found you know once they were brought into town to sell or to bring further along the way I mean the animals had to have some places to sit and graze while you guys were on the taverns getting meal getting rest getting some sleep animals had to do the same the only place they could do it was in a common ground or the Commons.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That’s some great information you’ve both shared and corrected me on and. Thank you for your interest.

[@earlshaner4441]

No hot butter rum?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That too, lol!

[@earlshaner4441]

@@TheWoodlandEscape I would love to have you talk about this drink

[@salfrench3471]

The Lost Art of Good Conversation by Sakyong Mipham addresses the lack that is being commented upon.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Sounds like an interesting read, thanks for the recommendation.

[@glenmacneill6935]

I still watch all your video's Boone. You and Stomp'in Tom Connors are the only rugged individualists left in Canada and Tom's gone ... so that just leaves you!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Well sir, you’ve given me my first laugh of the day!

[@KD-fn5xi]

It must be karma !!! Just about to start a 2 gallon jug of ginger/molasses beer , found a recipe from the 1700's

[@ianandresen2326]

That's sounds amazing!

[@wadeschwartz6281]

Well I suppose you and Cathy feel quite safe inside the fort and tavern . But now you have a barrier you can get sheep to keep the grass mowed and in case the moose hunt fails .

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

A sound plan indeed!

[@tropifiori]

As a youth I read Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Lewis Stevenson and Jules Verne etc. it was all flowery and erudite and elegant. When I got to college the English Faculty forced me to write like Hemingway- quite terse and unadorned . We are now left speaking and writing in this very basic way where any excess is very much frowned upon as loquacious and verbose. I think this is quite sad.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I totally agree with you. An example of an eloquently written book is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and now we have Hemingway style!

[@ryno2175]

Conversation is dead. The stupid magic box we all carry in our pockets ha# killed it

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Hear, hear.

[@AndreaWillers]

Some of them told tall stories and the more people drank the more out exaggerated the tall stories got.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Indeed and that is the best part!

[@jtsterry]

❤😊😊

[@mattvangerpen1855]

Peter, I always look forward to and enjoy your videos. But I sometimes wonder if you are going to use 18th century medicine to fix your broken neck, back, pelvis, and punctured lung after you fall off that roof. I am sure you used a safety line when you were an arborist. Please be safe.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Wise council indeed. I thank you for your concern and so you know, I employed fall protection for the other side.

[@vonscheer3993]

Holy Cow, now thats a turnip!!! I guess thats what it was.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It was indeed and enough to feed a Boy Scout troop!

[@greggdougherty8992]

People don't know there language well enough anymore too. So conversation is a nit hard.

[@kendavis511]

HOWDY OH YEEE

[@MONTANAMANOFFICIAL]

@TheWoodlandEscape, Peter, not only have we lost the Art of Conversation, we've also lost the use of proper grammar, proper sentence structuring, and proper spelling. Today's English teachers do not know how to properly speak, and it is being passed onto the children to which they "educate" (and I use that term loosely.) It is completely sad how the degradation of society has progressed, especially since the "technology" boom.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

You’re spot on and I too attribute much of the loss to technology.

[@eugenejung4808]

Single malt Scotch? Let me know the next time you’re coming our way. I’ve got a bottle I’d love to share with you!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Deal! I saw the picture you sent and that is my all time favorite Scotch!

[@eugenejung4808]

Perfect! Nice and peaty!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

@@eugenejung4808 it most certainly is that with the right amount of smoke to boot!

[@jackcook8613]

I have said the same thing.

[@timmynormand8082]

Think it's HOT. come try down here south Louisiana

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

My heart goes out to you … I’d be hiring a moving van.

[@timmynormand8082]

@@TheWoodlandEscape it's actually not that bad I can deal with it for 2 months. The fall n winter spring are nice. No snow or ice. To deal with. My ancestors came from that way. If ya notice my last name ( NORMAND)

[@ragnar8390]

It's a slippery slope when people stop talking about ideas and life. And agree that it's ok to disagree with your neighbor - from time to time when the moon is right, fight it out like Irishmen. The next day reunite, forgive, carry on with life as neighbors. What has happened to civility in the greatest age in human history?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Hear, hear! Thanks for sharing.

[@SirFrederick]

Yep we have lost the art of civil discourse

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Hear, hear!

[@sukeyfrugalfrau]

I frequently make Scottish oat cakes….

[@rogerclyde2720]

Wonder how many died from eating such old stew.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I’m thinking given it was constantly headed any bacteria would have been destroyed.

[@Florida239]

It was constantly cooking it never went bad