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23 Jul 02 - 01:53 PM (#753166) Subject: Frontier House? From: GUEST,McGrath of Harlow Anybody watching FRontier House - they're showing it on the BBC over these weeks, and I see it's already gone out on PBS in the States.
Fascinating stuff. For us it follows on from a series of related programmes - the 1900 House, the 1940s house and the Edwardian Country House. This is much the most demanding for the participants.
I wonder how long before they'll get round to the 1960s house?
But what surprised me was how the people in frontier house seemed surprised at the spartan nature of frontier living. Even reading Little House on the Prairie you surely couldn't avoid realising it was a grim knife-edge life in terms of creature comforts. But I suppose part of basis of recruiting families for it would involve avoiding people who'd fit in to well - or get on too well with each other for that matter. |
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23 Jul 02 - 01:57 PM (#753171) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: Clinton Hammond My favorite of this kind of shows was the Iron Age one, with the idiot New Agers and such, who damn near DIED the first week... I'd love to do a gig like that... I keep hoping that someone will do one in L'Anse aux Meadows... I might never come home again!!! LOL!!
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23 Jul 02 - 03:03 PM (#753211) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: SharonA I missed seeing the whole "Frontier House" series the first time around, but the local PBS station is currently rerunning it. The last two episodes air this coming Thursday. I agree with you, Kevin, that one of the points of the program – the contrast between modern-day conveniences and frontier-life rigors – would not have been made if the producers had chosen Americans with a less "average" lifestyle. I think that one of the things they're trying to say here is that the majority of people of the 1880's who ventured west to stake their land claims didn't really know what they were getting themselves into, either. Case in point: During the "Frontier House" families' wagon trip, the narrator mentions that in the nineteenth century, the trail west was littered with furniture and other things that had simply been dumped out of wagons, as pioneers came to terms with the life they were leaving and discarded the non-essentials that were literally and figuratively holding them back. |
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23 Jul 02 - 06:38 PM (#753350) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: GUEST,Melani Hey, I want to see the other ones--the Edwardian Country House and the 1940's House. We already got the 1900 House over here, and I loved it. We did have a good laugh over the family not being able to bathe for a week because the hot water heater in back of the stove wasn't working--even in the 2002 House, I usually have to heat water on the stove and add it to the bathtub to get it hot enough. I can't believe that it didn't occur to them to do the same. |
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24 Jul 02 - 11:24 AM (#753737) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: GUEST,Les B. There's quite a long thread/discussion of this back about three months ago. As an update, apparently the couple from Tennessee split up after the show, and he's back out here in Montana working for a nearby rancher and going about giving lectures on his experience as a new age pioneer! |
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24 Jul 02 - 11:30 AM (#753747) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: Alice I refreshed that thread - first thread on Frontier House. (hope this works) |
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24 Jul 02 - 02:19 PM (#753847) Subject: RE: BS: Frontier House? From: Catherine Jayne Call me sad (and I don't care if you do) but I have watched all the series they have done, Edwardian House, 1940's House etc and I am enjoying Frontier House. It puts into perspective how fortunate we are living in this day an age. cat |