SALEM PIONEER VILLAGE
PHOTOS BY
REX PASSION
AUGUST 4, 2007
Pioneer Village in Salem is a replica of a 1600's village. Students from Gordon College made the village come alive.
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The residents of Pioneer Village went about their daily chores as they mingled with their visitors from the 21st century.
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The heart and hearth of the village, the blacksmith fashioned iron implements.
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The first building built by the villagers was an Indian wigwam covered with reeds.
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Modern visitors joined the villagers at a religious meeting in the Governor's House.
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The women of the village were known as goodwives. The term "Goody" was used as we would use Mrs.
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The preacher and one of his flock have a long talk by the lake.
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Visitors and Villagers joined together in games.
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A villager is accused of stealing and is punished in the seventeenth century style.
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