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Behaving in a Golden Age Tavern


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Here are some more tavern images.

Tavern Interior, Adriaen van Ostade (1680)
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Scene in the Tavern, Adriaen van Ostade (mid 17th c.)

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Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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I notice children again in this image. And large ceramic gourd shaped bottles at the feet of the drinker. Did you buy your drink by the bottle?

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I'd have to find my notes, or talk to the person I know who is my go-to authority on colonial taverns to be sure, but I seem to remember bills in court cases for things like a pitcher of beer. If it was small beer, and that is what was generally consumed, the alcohol content wouldn't add up to that much. It's pretty much liquid nutrition and a source of safe fluids.

As for the children, the were everywhere, probably more so than today in our protective society. Isolation from the grow-ups can only happen when there is either economic means to hire help, or older children to provide care for the younger. And some "apprenticeships" started at a surprisingly young age (although they may have been an informal form of adoption in some cases).

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They had an exhibit on 17th c. life at the Smithsonian a while back that featured hundreds of broken pipes unearthed from a trash heap or something like that. Get yourself a clay pipe and it won't take you long to understand why. ;)

Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?"

John: "I don't know."

Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate."

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