COLONIAL HOUSE ON TV TONIGHT + Quiz: How would You Fare In 1628?

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Colonial House, brings the rigors, adventures, colors, tastes, scents and sounds of a vibrant 17th century to life. You'll want to watch what happen as two dozen modern-day men, women and children live in the year 1628 for five months,working together to build a functioning colony on an isolated stretch of the misty Maine coast.

The eight-hour series premieres Monday, May 17 and continues Tuesday, May 18, and concludes the following week, Monday, May 24 and Tuesday, May 25 from 8-10 PM.

The colonists' day-to-day lives present both personal and communal challenges including both the expected -backbreaking labor, battling bad weather and primitive living conditions - as well as the unexpected - religious conflicts,surprising colonist confessions, devastating news from the outside world and even an AWOL colonist.

The 26 hardy souls chosen from more than 5,000 applications, some of which were for entire families, to participate in the time-travel experiment include: the Voorhees family from Massachusetts etc. and individuals from New York City, North Carolina etc. At one point, all participants were housed in just four single-story cottages measuring only 15 x 20 feet each - with as many as 12 per house! Among the colonists' many points of dissension were the rigid class and gender roles, mandatory religious worship and the puritanical civil laws of the era, particularly those pertaining to profanity.

How would you fare in 1628? Take the Colonial House quiz and find out. (See link for interactive History)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/index.html