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Tera
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08-10-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 5:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you watched and liked Frontier House, don't miss this new series.

I saw just a small bit of the promo for this new show today and it looks like it will be just as interesting as Frontier House.

I saw Oprah Winfrey and her friend Gail dressed in clothes from that period... I guess they will be "guest starring".

It is airing May 17, 18, 24, & 25 from 8-10pm

Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/

Luvmyjrt
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09-18-2003

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the heads up, Tera. These are some of my favorite shows!!!! DVR is all set to record! }

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Check out the "meet the colonists" section. They even have profiles on the dogs!

Spunky
Member

10-08-2001

Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I did watch a bit of the Frontier House... but got tired of the whining... if you want to experience something so unique you'd better go prepared and forget about all the nice things you're missing...

I will watch the Colonial House and see if it differs a bit from the previous...and Oprah stayed there too briefly...but now I know what she looks like without makeup...

Amchess
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08-27-2002

Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I liked Frontier House too. They replayed the wedding the other day. I wonder if any will cheat this time. Remember one family's comfortable mattress hidden under the straw mattress (or whatever it was) up in the loft. And didn't the same family trade with locals when they weren't supposed to?

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Colonial House starts this week on PBS. Is anyone else going to be watching this???

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/

Mware
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09-14-2001

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They're already talking about it here:

Colonial House discussion

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ah - thanks!

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love these shows!.

And I hope nobody cheats. It detracts from the experience.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You know Ms. Oprah is going to be at Colonial House tomorrow, don't you? Should be fun, as long as we avoid close-ups of an un-madeup Oprah. Makeup is the best reason to live when we do!

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On her show - or on Colonial House? I have seen the ads with her in it.

Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't watch this last time. Gonna check it out this go round.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Puppy, on her show. Sorry.

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ooooooooooooh gonna have to record oprah then!

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oprah is doing her show today on her trip to visit the colony that is going to be featured on the PBS series, The Colonial House.

Oprah says the series starts tonight...so I hope to catch it. I enjoyed the Frontier House, the 1800 House, and the other frontier type series on PBS.

I just thought I would give you all a head's up.

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hey one of the families is from my hometown :-)

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
also, its the family that oprah stayed with(voorhoos)

Curlyq
Member

07-10-2002

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This could be interesting, although I think Frontier House remains my favorite. I watched Oprah today, and it was funny. It must've been shocking for them to have Oprah show up out of nowhere.

I have to wonder why every time they do these experiments they always manage to cast someone who's unwilling to give up their 21st century ways in order to do it right. The servants in the Manor House were griping throughout and trying to find ways around the rules. The one family in Frontier House proudly cheated the experiment on several occasions. Now we see people wanting to fight the colonial lifestyle they signed up to reenact.

It's one thing to crack under the pressure and long for the luxuries of this century, but to go into the experiment already resistant is ridiculous to me. The Voorhees woman just wanted to see if they could live off the land and not get into the heads of the colonists? Why not just take a vacation to a farm? Since her husband and child are only there for her sake her complaining is all the more irritating.

Otherwise, I did enjoy the first installment. It was really cool how when they realized how much they'd been slacking they finally pulled together and finished the planting. I felt terrible for Bethany, and for the kids who had to endure sickness when they didn't want to be there in the first place.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
not quite what i expected, but okay. the one woman is pretty bitchy...the one who looks like sandra bullock. i laughed when her husband said something at the men's meeting about the cooking, something along the lines of it would make it easier for him if they just went along with the women's plan for a time...

i wasn't sure where they went from the women being off cooking every 4th day to the men had to cook for themselves on wednesday, saturday and sunday.

this whole thing was kinda jumpy, but interesting.
i was on the phone when something happened to bethany's family. did her fiance die in a car accident?

Hereiam
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03-29-2002

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, the fiance died in a car accident and their older son was seriously hurt.

"Just as the Wyerses were adjusting to their new life, they received tragic news from home. Their eldest son, Jeff Jr., and Bethany's fiance, Caleb Morgan, were involved in an automobile accident. Their son was seriously injured and Caleb died. The entire family rushed back to Waco."

From Waco Trib site

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 5:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched this show last night and I THINK I liked it - it will take a few more viewings before I make up my mind, though. I do wish everyone would stop crying. That kind of stuff makes me crazy - you're still going to be cold and hungry and have a ton of work to do when you stop crying, so why bother? I was glad to hear that most of the Wyer family returns - even poor Bethany, and the 10-year-old son who was so set on leaving in the first place. I especially liked that Jeff Wyer returned, which effectively removes Mr. Heinz as acting governor - I wouldn't want the Heinz's running the colony if I were there. I took an immediate dislike to the couple, even though I admire their energy, and had my dislike driven home the minute Mrs. Heinz opened her mouth about politics. Go figure - I don't like the West coast liberal college professors. Mrs. Voorhees seems like a handful - she's not accepting her subservient role in a subservient manner lol. The women are going to tell the men what they will or will not do? I would have ROTF'ed if the men told them to suck it up and get dinner on the table. Then again, the men should have done all the field work at that point, since the women's work had been doubled. I did feel sorry for Mr. Voorhees having to go back to the cabin and deal with his wife after the freemen's meeting. I also thought it was a riot that the servant and Mrs. Heinz were outside the cabin listening to the meeting. I get the feeling she can light a fire under her husband's bunsen burner when push comes to shove. I like the English guy in the bachelor's cabin - he's a riot, and I think the bachelor's cabin is going to provide the most fun on the show. Poor guys just want a meal - or even just their fair share of the food. They need to turn one of the guys into the housemaid and make him cook. Anyway, when is the next show? Are they showing it all week, or is it going to be a once-a-week thing?

Koko586
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02-25-2004

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 5:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
According to the PBS site a new show will be on again tonight and then new ones on Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th.

There is a chat at 1pm EST today with the Wyers family. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/

I'd love to go to Plymouth Plantation again and see the exhibits they are going to have from the show. We really enjoyed our visit several years ago and seeing the items from the show would be a lot of fun.


Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 7:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched the Oprah first, and I found that to be very helpful. We learned a lot of stuff that was pointed out in the show itself...like the fact that the women didn't wear panties! lol! Oprah was just too funny about that.

I also learned the names and dynamic of some of the families so it made the episode easier already knowing some things about the inhabitants.

And as always there are conflicts regarding level of commitment, work ethics, priorities, etc. I think the appointed governor is a good leader...the lay preacher lacks authority and is unable to get others to follow his lead.

The women were WAY out place when they were devising their cooking plan. Even daughter said, "Don't they realize that a wife who didn't obey her husbands direction...got beat!"

The freemen are going to have to learn that they will either need to learn to cook for themselves, or they need to have a servant girl, or they will need to barter for meals. No one is going to continue to feed them out of the goodness of their hearts. Sorry fellows, you will need more than just good looks and charm to fill your belly.

When the young girl was speaking at church about all the joy in her heart, I thought to myself, well, you have had a very good life, and probably haven't experienced much pain yet. She was so full of idealism that I was pretty sure she hadn't really had her faith tested yet....and then when the worst possible pain happened to her...I cried for her. Now her faith will be tested for sure.

I was glad to see the governor comeback.

I was very curious about the timeline. It appeared to be spring when they landed. When Oprah visited about three months into their stay, it appeared to be mid-summer. So I am assuming that this was filmed last year.

As uncomfortable as they were in the cold, I kept thinking...just wait until summer and the flies come! Then you will have something to complain about. lol!

Overall, I liked it, and will be tuning in again tonight.


Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i was surprised to hear that chico state university, where heinz teaches, is now a full-blown "university of california". i don't think so!!
oh, poor bethany and her family. i was so hoping i mis-heard the accident part in the background as i was on the phone. how tragic for all of them...

i smiled about the tiny leaf to wipe with. julia was on a talk radio station yesterday morning and was discussing having to use leaves and how small all the leaves in maine are. she said sometimes it was pine needles they wiped with! i guess the good part is, you can skip the 'pine forest scented spray' after you use the bathroom, as it's all done in one step (or swipe) now...LOL

there seems to be a lot of complaining early on...i was especially surprised that the one family's tragedy didn't make everyone else more appreciative of life itself and give them a renewed vigor--instead they just started complaining about the loss of men and women to help work.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Donald, a retired professor of religion and former dean at Chico State University, and Carolyn, a professor of anthropology there, were selected to be among the 24 people who between June and October lived full-time the life of 17th century "colonists" in a tiny authentic village in northern Maine, near the Canadian border.

i guess the film dates were june to october. pretty late for planting corn, but should have been warmer than they 'implied' at the beginning of their stay. june in maine is not january in maine LOL