Two willing volunteers agreed to dress up in the 1650s fashion.

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Two other volunteers showed off the differences between rich and poor.

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Sorting out Christmassy items into those banned at the time, those that were OK, and those that hadn't been invented. The banned pile is the large one on the left!

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The afternoon ended with teams trying to make puritan costumes from large sheets of black paper with mixed results.
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