There is a living history museum not far from my house here in Denver (http://www.littletongov.org/museum/ - "Located on 39 acres, the museum consists of two living history farms (one from the 1860’s and one from the 1890’s), a small lake, a collections center, and a main exhibition and administration building."). It's a mini-Colonial Williamsburg. It focuses in on period life here in Denver during the 1860's and 1890's. I've been thinking about perhaps volunteering as a interpretive woodworker... (Though I've not posed the question to them, and not even sure they have such a need.)
I'd like to be true to the tools and methods for those two (different) time periods. Any thoughts on how to approach and understand what things looked like here in Denver during that time?
I'm reasonably comfortable with a modern handtools only approach, but not necessarily with a period approach...