culture museum, and my title is interpreter -- those of us in cost you interpreting the exhibits -- castilla interpreting the exhibits are referred to as interpreters. they were primarily week farmers. they raised beef cattle for sale, then kept cows to milk and make butter and cheese. a good diet, had but it was heavy in pork and corn products, and then they raised wheat, reich, and oats. this area was the bread basket of the country until after the civil war. we took was the money crop, the cash crop. it was kind of like what tobacco was to the east of us. this 1820's american farm was located originally in what is now northern rock in ham county. when it was first built, it was still augusta county. the main part of the house was constructed by a german immigrant and he came down here after a generation in pennsylvania. it is a typical story. it is why the museum wanted this property -- the family story was shared by other american families at the same time. we are currently in the parlor, and this parlor was added by the original owner's grandson in 1820, but it is an older house. by the