“I am an costume interpreter. I used to be a special ed teacher, but here I can help people from around the world experience a piece of 17th century life. I want to make connections and help people realize that we are the same as they were. They may have acted differently, spoke different languages, wore different clothes and ate different foods, but they are people. They just made glue by melting deer hooves and made fishing hooks and needles out of animal bones. It makes me more sensitive to tell about someone else’s culture and I am talking to people from different cultures and they share their similar experiences. We are all just people. 17th century men and women had very specific jobs and very little choices. We haven’t changed as people, but our choices and the way we live have changed. I have the best job in the world, I am outside all of the time, meet new people every day and have bald eagles in my office.”