Kensington Intermediate Open Sim House Tour Transcript:

Description of Visual: A period home of the classic Island-ell farmhouse style, with a bay window on the lower floor. The house features wood shingling with decorative scalloped shingles in the v of the roof, and open front porch with pillars and three steps leading up to the front door. Inside the house, all furniture and decorative items are accurate to the early 20th century period.

Audio Transcript:
This is the parlour, and this is where everybody sits and it's a fancy room.

This is a picture of peddlar's licenses; it shows the peddlars and how much the license cost.

This is a picture of Beer Brother's Store modelling plan.

This is a picture of a small girl washing and ironing her doll clothes.

This is a picture from a book of home remedies that was telling people the cure for cancer, or what they thought then was the cure for cancer.

What was the cure for cancer?

They would use sticking plaster and keep it on for 24 hours with a cloth over it and they thought the cancer would be burned to the plaster.

This picture is a shipping letter; they would send back and forth about the supplies they needed.

A mother bathing her child in a basin.

This is the master bedroom; there's a wardrobe and there's a bed.

There's a bed with bears on it, and there's a dresser, and a candlelight.

So that finishes our tour around the house, I'd like to thank the Kensington kids for their fantastic hard work and their teacher who was ready with just a little bit of help. Thanks everybody, and we'll see you later.