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THE MARKET SQUARE, the heart of the commercial life of the Shtetl. There visitors will find a drug store, a photography studio, a fire house, a medical center stocked with both folk and conventional medicines, a shop selling books and religious articles, kiosk, a bakery, restaurants, coffee shops, taverns, general stores, barber shop, haberdashery, tailor, seamstress, shoemaker - in short, everything needed for daily life. As in Colonial Williamsburg, visitors will be able to watch and participate in the making of various objects representative of those created during the many centuries of the shtetl's existence, and will get to witness a typical Market Day as well. If this busy "city life" doesn't appeal, then they may opt to visit the nearby countryside, where straw-roofed farm houses amidst fields grazed by flocks of sheep, cows and chickens will show them the life of a typical Jewish farmer of days gone by.
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