By Carol Jenkins Shafer | June 12th, 2016 | Categories: News, Women's life in the 1830s | Tags: KNITTING, sheep, women, WOOL
Summer at Lincoln's New Salem is a very busy time! But Saturday, June 18 will be even busier than usual! That's the day of this year's Summer Festival and for the FIRST TIME, this year the historic site will be a host site for World Wide Knit in Public Day! Everybody is welcome to come and join in the knitting fun! Of course, knitting in the 1830s was not a ....