Try Traditional Tools
Get your hands on history! Kids (and adults, too) can try traditional tools at the Heritage Festival with Alan Mitchell from the Homestead Woodworking School in Newmarket and David Emerson from Old Ways Traditions in Canterbury. “I have yet to see a child who can’t pick up the tools we provide and use them successfully,” says Emerson, who brings bit braces and block planes, as well as a shaving horse for younger kids. Older kids can try augers, a boring machine, a treadle lathe, and molding and matching planes.


