One of the volunteer actors let Miles shoot his historical gun:
Lily got a kick trying out public humiliation:
At the Mayflower booth Miles tried on a Helmet like his names' sake Miles Standish:
The Historical Crandall Printing Museum gave the kids a colonial letter primer:
And a goose quill pen with powder to mix up and make your own ink:
This is a "freedom medallion". The woman who cut the wood and painted it in front of Miles told him that during the Revolution people commonly wore jewelry like this and that patriots used the medallions to signal other patriots by painting rebel symbols (like 13 points on a leaf). This way freedom fighters could alert each other about meetings with out fear of being caught by the British:
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