Scouts Have A Day To Earn Badges At Wyckoff House
Clockwise from top left:Carolina Capehart gets a little help from eight-year-old Boy Scouts Tulio Domingo and Zachary Krupczyn as she stokes an open-pit fire; a group of P.S. 276 Girl Scouts from Canarsie; Science Educator Dessa Shepherd (left) instructs (l. to r.) Girl Scouts Kendra Williams, Abby Moore and Alicia Fobbs on how to make perfume and herbal sachets; Tennesseans Dale and Lucy Wykoff, descendants of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, 19th century owner of the farm house, visit with the site’s Director of Education Shirley Brown-Alleyne (at right), and Educator Elizabeth Banks (right), shows scouts how to carry water from the well with buckets on a yoke. Photos by Bennett Silverman
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts engaged in a variety of activities at the Wyckoff Farm House Museum last Saturday in order to earn special badges issued by the historic landmark. Some of the events from the bygone days in our nation’s history included apple pressing, open-fire pit cooking, butter churning, perfume making, creating dolls out of corn husks and spinning wool. In addition to the activities, museum educators were on hand to teach the youngsters about the many colonial reeneactments regularly featured on the property.














