Colonial House: "What was the real world like in 1628? Not a whole heckuva lot of fun. Forget about pious Pilgrims and powdered wigs. The original colonists lived lives of sheer spartan hell: primitive cabins, bitterly cold weather, chamber pots for toilets, backbreaking labor, isolation, deprivation, indentured servitude, public punishment for the slightest infraction -- oh yeah, and then they died young... Yep, things pretty much sucked 400 years ago, as this series brings into vivid focus."
