The village is populated by re-enactors who each play the part of an actual, known person who lived in the village. They are basically prepared to tell all of the details of life in the village. Because they don't necessarily volunteer information, and don't have a canned presentation, it is important for the visitor to take the initiative by asking questions, or by just striking up a conversation. Each home has a vegetable garden at the rear, where you might find villagers tending the crops. Outside the village proper, but still within the palisade, are large pens for livestock, including pigs, cattle and sheep.
Women tend the gardens and the children, and sew or knit.
Close by is a communal bread oven where the daily loaves were just being pulled out as we stopped by. Hobbamock's Homesite Close by the village is a recreation of the camp of Hobbamock, who served as an ambassador from his tribe, the Wampanoag, who lived in Rhode Island. The Pilgrims considered him a friend and interpreter. At the site, we watched as a raccoon was first skinned for its fur and then roasted for dinner. Then we crawled through low openings into a hut made from woven reeds and branches to listen to some Native American stories and legends.