It’s a beautiful summer’s day in picturesque Portsmouth, New Hampshire and your kids are busy making a cup of tea from a sprig of mint chocolate from Mrs. Goodwin’s Victorian garden. As they are just about to invite you to join them in a two-story, 18th-century-inspired treehouse, a kaleidoscope of butterflies flitters past and entices them towards a lush green lawn where other children are playing a game of hoop rolling abounded by an infusion of salt air. This is Strawbery Banke—not 200 years ago, but today where you can trade in a day of playing on cell phones and modern day playgrounds for a real life day filled with authentic yesteryear pastimes in gardening, lawn games, and even the colonial constructs for making fairy houses. Named after the bounty of wild berries that graced its 10 acres of coastal fields, the working village museum is made up of a …
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