4. Dolly’s Table

Guests can play an interactive game on the massive touch screen dinner table to get a feel of how dinner conversations and debates went during Dolly’s time as the First Lady. They can choose to have debates between the Federalist, Elizabeth Fox, the Republican, Samuel King,  the Republican, Margaret Logan, and the Federalist, David Gardener.

The dichotomy between choosing a man or a woman to debate is apparent just by the choices of how to interact with the other people at the table. Women are given choices like “nicely inquire,” “use flattery,” and “gently criticize” on how to go about debating. This paints a picture of how women were able to be involved in politics without making it inherently obvious that they had opinions of their own to the men they were debating with.