点评:This is an incredible adventure is early America. Made more special because it's real! This is a real American country house on the scale of an English country house, with original furnishings and treasures. Very few American homes built before the Civil War survive with their original furnishings, and this is an entire mansion. The architecture is incredible, the stuff inside is incredible, and the history is real.
What fun. If high school history classes were this interesting, no one would be able to leave American History alone.
I teach history, and I teach with facts and figures - that's a requirement - they provide the framework on which you hang the life experiences of the people and events we are studying...but I also hand out real antique quilts, coverlets, clothing, photographs, ornamental plaster chunks from the ceilings of demolished buildings, silver, silver plate and Sheffield plate, ceramics, glassware, and I play music of the period, and provide food. It's easy to talk about Paul Revere, but if you hand your students hand made silver from the 1700s (sadly, not by Revere), his world begins to come alive. I have students who have, voluntarily, taken my classes several times. History is exciting and fun -
Well, that is what this historic site was like for me. It is American history electrified. And really beautiful.
The real wonder is that this home was very nearly bulldozed, and the original contents scattered. What a tragedy that could have been.
However, do not visit an antiques store after leaving this great house - because suddenly all the people who've lived with the things you're looking at will be standing around you urging you to take a bit of their lives home with you, a real souvenir of our America, and they'll be very difficult to resist.
翻译:这是早期美国的一次不可思议的冒险。因为真实,所以更加特别!这是一栋真正的美国乡间别墅,规模与英国乡间别墅相当,有原始的家具和珍宝。内战前建造的美国房屋中,很少有保留着原始家具,而这是一栋完整的豪宅。建筑令人难以置信,里面的东西也令人难以置信,历史是真实的。
真有趣。如果高中历史课如此有趣,没有人能不去学习美国历史。
我教历史,我用事实和数据来教学——这是必须的——它们提供了框架,让你把我们正在研究的人和事件的生活经历挂在上面……但我也分发真正的古董被子、床罩、衣服、照片、被拆毁建筑天花板上的装饰石膏块、银器、银盘和谢菲尔德盘、陶瓷、玻璃器皿,我播放那个时期的音乐,提供食物。谈论保罗·里维尔很容易,但如果你把 18 世纪手工制作的银器(遗憾的是,不是里维尔的作品)交给你的学生,他的世界就会开始活跃起来。我的一些学生自愿上过我的课好几次。历史令人兴奋又有趣 -
好吧,这就是这个历史遗迹给我的感觉。它是美国历史的缩影。而且非常美丽。
真正的奇迹是,这所房子几乎被推土机推平,原来的物品散落一地。那将是多么悲惨啊。
然而,离开这座伟大的房子后,不要去古董店 - 因为突然间,所有与你正在看的东西生活过的人都会站在你身边,催促你把他们生活中的一些东西带回家,这是我们美国的真正纪念品,他们很难抗拒。