Georgia Life
Recreation was considered to be entertainment, and to take away from the hard work that the people did all day long. The ability to unwind and enjoy some of life's pleasures made it easier for the people to get along, and get to develop friendships with those in the same area. The three most popular games that people played when they wanted to unwind were Piquet, Euchre, and Whist, which is similar to what we know as Bridge. Both Piquet and Euchre were introduced by the French and brought over to early colonial times where it was picked up immediately because it something new and fresh. Before card-play begins, the players need to find out who holds the better cards with respect to three kinds of announcements, point, sequence, and set, and consequently has the right to score for them. Point goes to the player who has the greatest number of cards in one suit, and scores the number of cards.[2] Sequence goes to the player who has the longest consecutive sequence in one suit. This player can score for all such sequences in his hand: 3 or 4 points for every such sequence of length 3 or 4, and 15–18 points for every such sequence of length 5–8. Set goes to the player who has the highest-ranking 4 of a kind, worth 14 points, or else 3 of a kind, worth 3 points. Often only Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten are allowed in sets. As for sequences, the player with the highest-ranking set can score for all sets.
Education in Colonial Georgia was not equally fair. Wealthy kids and Poor kids had different educations. The sons of a planter typically would be taught the basics at home. The boys’ school day started around 7 a.m. in the school room with their male tutor. They had several breaks during the day. Around 9 a.m. they had breakfast, and dinner was served from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The boys studied higher math, Greek, Latin, science, celestial navigation (navigating ships by the stars), geography, history, fencing, social etiquette, and plantation management. At this point, the sons of wealthy planters often were sent to boarding schools in England for a higher education. They sometimes stayed over in England to study law or medicine. Otherwise, they would return home to help their fathers run the plantation. Boys education was way different from a girls. Girls were taught by a governess from England. They studied art, music, French, social etiquette, needlework, spinning, weaving, cooking, and nursing. The girls did not have the opportunity to go to England for higher education because this was not considered important for them. Most of their subjects were to mainly get ready for growing up and becoming the Mother of the House. Women had the role to Clean and stay home while men were out almost all the time.
Most early forts were constructed of wood and were square in plan, usually with small corner bastions, such as the first Fort Wimberly, erected at Wormsloe Plantation in the 1730s outside Savannah. By 1744, the wooden structure was replaced by a fort of tabby, of which still stands. They had native building practices like, making roofs with palm fronds which were employed in their construction. Small one-story side-gabled houses, sixteen by twenty-four feet in size with a chimney at one end, were the typical English yeoman's cottage of the period. Many colonial houses in Georgia were the New England saltbox type, where the side-gabled roof extends at a gentler pitch above an attached rear shed. A widespread residential form in Georgia is called the Plantation Plain style—a house set on a raised basement (most often of brick) and only one room deep, allowing each room to have windows on three sides. The side-gabled roof extended out in a pitched shed roof over a front porch and sometimes also over a rear porch.