"Voices of the Past"

Experience a sense what it would have been like to have lived two hundred years ago in Michigan. Listen to stories, observe crafts and primitive skills needed by our ancestors to live and survive.

Join us in an Outdoor Living History Classroom

A cast of trained historical educators, dressed in 18^th century

regalia will introduce you to French Voyageurs, Metis, other European characters and Michigan's first inhabitants, the Anishinabe. Travel back in time as we portray the people who opened up our wilderness to exploration and settlement. Complete with tent encampment, reproduction artifacts and trade items, fur hides and replica twenty-six foot birch bark canoe and flat-bottomed trading bateaux, witness and participate as history comes alive.

We create an understanding of Environmental Awareness

By addressing the initial use of land, water and food sources by our ancestors, we employ the spectators to expand and develop significant thinking towards the human impact on the environment in the 21^st century. Teaching a deeper understanding of our past and the people who lived it will in store an appreciation of the future of our natural resources. Project Lakewell is dedicated to encouraging stewardship for a clean planet.