Joseph Case High School docents Emma Roque, Jasmine Mello, Brooklynn Doyle, Paige Monast, and Abigail Gauthier greet visitors to the Martin House Farm on Route 6 in Swansea, MA on the 2024 opening day for the house. The group leads tours of the 1728 house every Sunday afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. from July 7th through the end of September to show visitors what life was like in the late 17th and early 18th century in Swansea. Click here for a 25-minute video of the tour. Click here and here for photos and video of visits to the house in 2019 and 2018.

Docent Brooklynn Doyle welcomes visitors to the Martin house where visitors see some of the items that the Martin family would likely have owned in the 18th century. Also on display is a replica of the chair that the Pokanoket Massasoit Metacom is said to have sat on when he warned Hugh Cole, a Swansea resident, about the uprising at the start of King Philip’s War in June of 1675. Cole later watched his house burn after he and his family had heeded the warning and started to row down the river to Portsmouth.

Docents Avery Lunn and Brooklynn Doyle describe some of the common kitchen implements that would have been used in the house at the time as well as a pair of hand-made baby rattles.

Docents Paige Monast and Caoilainn Gould describe a lantern that was used at night before docent Alice Carvara describes a screen in the bedroom and docent Brooklynn Doyle demonstrates how a loom was used in the house to create colorful checked cloth.