Historic Warwick Blog: History Camp, August 6-10, 9AM-2PM

Sunday, April 1, 2012

History Camp, August 6-10, 9AM-2PM

A program with hands-on activities for boys and girls

Five Days of Unique Programming with Professional Educators

History is Fun!

Where: A.W. Buckbee Center (2 Colonial Ave.) and other Historical Society locations.

When: August 6-10, 2012, 9AM- 2PM each day

Cost: $175 per student, $150 each for siblings

Ages: 8-11

Offerings:

Experience a large weaving loom

Participate in sheep shearing, carding wool, learn to dye and spin wool and flax on a spinning wheel like residents of Warwick once did.

Experience a circa 1703 Lenape trade camp scene

Make wampum, Iroquois costume making and dance with Ken Hamilton, "Woodlands" Interpreter ( See "More on Ken Hamilton" below)

Instruction on native plants

Nature silhouettes/ portraiture

Revolutionary War era know-how.

Blacksmithing/ Make your own horseshoe nail ring with a real blacksmith!

Assist the blacksmith in the making of a tomahawk!

Learning experiences about early vegetable and grain growing.

Analyze artifacts and gain new insights into museum work

Make a walking stick using 18th century know-how

Learn about simple machines from the past

Stenciling

Measure, weigh, pull and lift using instruments from the past

See a chair caned with rush grass just like craftsman did in past centuries.

Tour the Historical Society’s historic homes and its collections.

For more information call: Robert Schmick, Executive Director of the Warwick Historical Society @ (845) 986-3236, rpschmick1@aol.com

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At our Summer History Camp this year kids will dig up crystals that fluoresce under a special black light. The crystals were actually discovered in the area as early as the 1820s and collectors from all over the United States and Europe came to the specifically places like Amity in the Town of Warwick to find these rare specimens for their museums, universities and their private collections. One of the largest off site exhibitions of these crystals is found in the Ecoles des Mines in Paris; there are over 150 samples of minerals specifically from Amity, NY in that collection which were discovered in large in the 1830s. What is interesting to imagine is that geologist and mineralogists from the greatest institutions of higher learning were traveling by horseback and carriage to the wilds of Warwick in the 1820s and 1830s to find rocks for their cabinets of curiosities.

Wawayanda Furnace ( 19th century ) the furnace that many of us remember seeing on our trips to the New Jersey State Park actually was integral to iron ore production supplied by Warwick mines. On a recent sojourn into the woods we visited some local iron ore mines that would have supplied the mid-nineteenth century Wawayanda Furnace. Of course, these operations were supplanted by the end of the nineteenth century when places with better quality ore that were closer to cheaper forms of transportation, like water and rail shut them down.

Ken Hamilton, "Woodlands Interpreter", will present the early 18th century life of Algonquin-speaking people, like the Minsi people of the Lenape tribe, of what was later named by Benjamin Aske as "Warwick." Here we see a trade camp with historially accurate artifact reproductions produced by Mr. Hamilton by hand; he an accomplished leatherworker, blacksmith and silversmith. As an "historical artifact artist", Mr. Hamilton produces props used in many living history scenarios and museums throughout the country. He will share some of his knowledge with campers at the Summer History Camp 2012. See further details.