Celebration of Quincy heritage at Quincy Valley Museum

QUINCY — It was a beautiful day, warm but not too hot – which was good news in the summer kitchen. The Celebration of Harvest and Culture at the Quincy Valley Historical Society and Museum Saturday highlighted the people that built Quincy and the way they built it. Quincy is more than a century old, and the day featured demonstrations of everyday life back in the day, from washing clothes to sharpening knives to cooking in the summer kitchen. Volunteers Terri Wilson and Pam Nutter were cooking sausage and sauerkraut on the wood stove in the summer kitchen, the old-school way of cooking on hot days. A wood stove pumps out a lot of heat, so rather make it even hotter in the house by cooking in the kitchen, pioneers built another kitchen in a separate building.