How can we listen to the past? This can be done by using our eyes to look at living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms of families in the 1800s. (Did I say ‘bathrooms’?!) We can also use our hands to pick up and examine artifacts, tools and games representing everyday life from that time period.

The Kemper family of Walnut Hills, c. 1804, serve as models of home life through their log house and stories passed down.