PBS will be airing the next segment of their reality series starting today. Colonial House, an extension of Frontier House and 1900 House, promises to send a group of people back nearly 400 years to live in the days of Colonial New England.

Speaking on personal experience, I really enjoyed 1900 House, which was sent in turn of the century England. A British family was denied all the creature comforts of the 21st century and had to live as people lived in 1900. I missed Frontier House, but managed to catch some of the backlash caused by the political correctness and anti-gun bigotry that surrounded the show. PBS, who claimed that participants were to "live as closely to the pioneer lifestyle of the 1880s as possible", denied the frontiersmen the use of rifles and firearms and instead opted to secure their safety with modern day inventions like bear repellent.

I've already set my recorder to Tivo this week's episodes of Colonial House. It will be interesting to see if PBS continues to rewrite history by denying "colonists" their right to keep and bear arms. The laws they've established look pretty interesting. Punishment for breaking the laws is usually lashings or time in the stockade. Although they are strictly puritanical in nature (no drunkeness, cussing, fornicating, etc), they do include a reward of four bushels of corn for killing a wolf, and they state that "Fowling, fishing and hunting shall be free to all men." We'll see.