Our trip to the Ulster American Folk Park: In the Hughes cottage
This house was taken, stone by stone, from Co Monaghan and rebuilt in the park. A son from this house emigrated to America and eventually became the Catholic Archbishop of…
Our trip to the Ulster American Folk Park: At the one room cottage
The poorest people lived in these houses during famine times in Ireland.
Our trip to the Ulster American Folk Park: In the forge with the blacksmith
We pulled the bellows and the blacksmith worked with the iron, hammering it on the anvil. He made a poker for the fire and gave it to us to bring…
STEM Project: Making Catapults
After making our catapults, we tested them to see how far they could launch a little ball.