Re: Frontier House

Posted by Lady Ann on May 02, 2002 at 07:42:23:

In Reply to: Frontier House posted by Theresa on May 02, 2002 at 06:03:47:

: Good morning Mohicanlanders!! Did anyone see this on PBS? And what did you think? I know I would have struggled to have survived it. Frontier women were made of good stock and I'm in awe of what they had to endure. A little worried though....Claude pulled out his Handbook of Rural Skills and Technology book...what could he be thinking? :)

: Theresa
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I think this series would have been more appropriately named "Frontier Whiners". After watching the British "1900 House" and seeing that family rather stalwartly dealing with the inconveniences and hardships of their situation, I was astonished to see American families in a similar situation complain constantly, bicker with each other, seek out ways to "cheat" (i.e. locate and use 21st century conveniences rather than stick to their 1883 time period), and turn the event into a competition with each other rather than work together. If that is the way it was with our forefathers on the frontier, it is a miracle our nation exists today! And what's with this "frontier" stuff...wearing corsets, cooking from scratch over an open fire, raising your own produce and livestock, hand sewing clothes, chopping firewood...sounds like what I do everyday...minus the 10 hours practicing law! What the producers of the show should have done is take the denizens of Mohicanland out to the Montana frontier for the experiment...by the end of five months we would have had thriving farms, a hotel, book store, cooperative healthcare, a massage parlor, one heck of a saloon, and would have established a national market for homemade Ping...and would all have refused to leave, standing the PBS officials off at well-practiced long rifle gunpoint.

Despite all this, however, I thoroughly enjoyed the series...and wish The MacLeod and I had applied for the adventure.

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: : Good morning Mohicanlanders!!  Did anyone see this on PBS?  And what did you think?  I know I would have struggled to have survived it.  Frontier women were made of good stock and I'm in awe of what they had to endure.  A little worried though....Claude pulled out his Handbook of Rural Skills and Technology book...what could he be thinking?  :)

: : Theresa
: : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

: I think this series would have been more appropriately named "Frontier Whiners".  After watching the British "1900 House" and seeing that family rather stalwartly dealing with the inconveniences and hardships of their situation, I was astonished to see American families in a similar situation complain constantly, bicker with each other, seek out ways to "cheat" (i.e. locate and use 21st century conveniences rather than stick to their 1883 time period), and turn the event into a competition with each other rather than work together.  If that is the way it was with our forefathers on the frontier, it is a miracle our nation exists today!  And what's with this "frontier" stuff...wearing corsets, cooking from scratch over an open fire, raising your own produce and livestock, hand sewing clothes, chopping firewood...sounds like what I do everyday...minus the 10 hours practicing law!  What the producers of the show should have done is take the denizens of Mohicanland out to the Montana frontier for the experiment...by the end of five months we would have had thriving farms, a hotel, book store, cooperative healthcare, a massage parlor, one heck of a saloon, and would have established a national market for homemade Ping...and would all have refused to leave, standing the PBS officials off at well-practiced long rifle gunpoint.

: Despite all this, however, I thoroughly enjoyed the series...and wish The MacLeod and I had applied for the adventure.


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