Junior Interpreters

Junior Interpreters are Junior Docents who want to share their knowledge with our visitors, demonstrate period crafts or play old-fashioned games. Junior Interpreters must have good communication skills as they are often asked questions about the museum.
Junior Interpreters are also asked to take the identity of a child or teenager who lived in York in the 1790s.

Here is Emily a.k.a. Sarah Junkins giving information to a tourist yesterday:

Junior Interpreters are required to spend a minimum of 3 hours a week at Old York. Every week, education assistants Zoe and Richard offer new activities. Yesterday, the young ladies were weaving simple candy baskets:

Sarah is preparing reed for the baskets.

Emily and Mallory start weaving their little candy baskets.

The boys were engaged in other activities:

Zach and Danny making tops....

(a special post is coming soon with Zach's own words on making tops)

What a great afternoon at Jefferds' Tavern!