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Video: 18th Century Writing With Quill Pens

Guide Pam Dobben demonstrates an old time skill.

Warren Westura, Neighbor
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At the Wick House at Jockey Hollow, we learned from park guide Pam Dobben how people in the colonial era used turkey and goose feathers to create their writing instruments.

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