BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Presenters from Historic New England were on hand for Colonial Day at the Cashman School in Amesbury on Tuesday, provided by the school's PTO, culminating their unit on Colonial America. Mike Welch looks over Gianna Leblanc, 8, as she turns a lever to make three strands from 12 of the plant fiber jute, used for rope-making, then others took turns combining those three into a single piece of sturdy rope.

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