the freeman farm. we call it the plenty freeman house because the farmer plenty freeman lived in it from the 1820s into the 1840s. we're showing the time right in the middle of that. they put it back to his time. >> it's interesting. this family and house came from sturbridge about a mile and a half from here. plenty freeman, the farmer who owned the house, his wife was very ill suffering from a form of tuberculosis. at times he didn't have other people living in the house with he and his wife. he had just two adult son and daughter living with him from time to time. the rest of his children were all grown up and moved out of the house, all seven of them. from time to time, we know through records from the town, he would take his meals there once in a while. for the most part, he had most of the meals at home. if you are going visiting, the time is after the work was done. dinner was at noon. dinner was the big meal of the day and we were cleaning up. layered so ash and coal and beets on top. more hot