Activity 11: The Lives of Servants

Transcript

Transcript

The Longfellow House is very large and required a lot of work to keep it clean, tidy, and looking nice from the outside. The Longfellow family had a lot of money, so instead of doing all this work themselves, they hired servants to do it for them. A servant is someone who does work duties for somebody else, especially work that’s done around the home. The Longfellows paid people to do work like dusting everything in the house, doing laundry, lawn work, cooking meals, and taking care of the children. One servant that worked in the Longfellow House was Mary Dunn, who was a nurse for young Charley and Erny Longfellow.

What kinds of things would you do with your free time if you could have someone do all your chores for you?

If someone else had you do all their chores for them, what do you think would be the hardest part?

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Learn about the people who worked in the Longfellow House, then complete the activity.

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NPS/Sven Market

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