barrels, furcins, hogsheads, you name it.ssentially, what they start with is, just a regular old piece of wood, and they shape that piece of wood into a stave, and eventually those staves are put together into buckets, or in that case, into a barrel. >> boat building was another important trade. these teens are actually learning how t >> and essentially, it's like a sailboat on sled skids, so it moves very quickly. in fact, these boats used to have the land speed record in the nineteenth century, going up to 150 miles an hour. and, as you can see, they dress in traditional clothing, and they use traditional hand tools in order to carry out this work. >> for me, it was to experience something i'm not used to, and i wanted to try different things. >> experiencing this fascinating way of life, frozen in time, made me wonder how the manor first began. >> the origins of philipsburg manor actually date back to the 17th century, in the 1680's, when fredrick philips came and established philipsburg manor, which, over a number of year