Bolduc House Museum.

Making French Colonial American History Fun

Left: Roscella teaches a Museum Kids’ knitting class; Right: A team of visitors competes in our salt-making relay race

Do you want to know what it was like to live in Missouri during the eighteenth century? Thanks to 7 year old Henry Brackenridge you can. He was sent to Ste. Genevieve in 1793 by his father in Philadelphia to learn French. He stayed for three years and returned when he was a grown-up. Then he wrote several books with detailed information about his time in Ste. Genevieve—playing with clay marbles, learning to shoot arrows with Shawnee Indian boys, learning to dance the minuet at children’s balls after mass, and being really really sick. We’ll show you what his experience would have been like using his own words.

Text Box: Museum Kids Text Box: Sign up for our free monthly e-newsletter for kids, Aujourd’hui Chez Louis by #emailing us at bolduchouse@sbcglobal.net. Please give us your name and grade and don’t forget to tell us that you want to receive the free email newsletter for kids. Enter our art contests, register for our kids’ classes and programs, and visit us on the web and in Ste. Genevieve often to find out what’s happening for kids your age. Watch the sign outside the Linden House for the daily schedule of kids’ activities including colonial games, a salt making relay race, crafts, and other activities that will connect you to what life in 18th century Ste. Genevieve was like

Are you 14 years old or older and want to do some community service? We’re looking for volunteers. Are you a Boy Scout who needs to do an Eagle Scout project?

Call us to find out more at 573-883-3105
Text Box: The Bolduc House Museum is owned and operated by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Missouri, a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. Photographs of our collection are by Bruce Pendleton unless otherwise noted. © 2010 by the Bolduc House Museum