I suppose it was a funny way to run an eight episode series, four doubled up shows started and finished before eight evenings had passed. In the end the last two of Colonial House were a bit duddy with the reversion to the feelings of those involved. Historical facts and accuracy got all wobblie in favour of the colonialists having a poster contest and classes in Biblical Greek. When there is a wrap-up dinner with people getting more and more out of character, the local aboriginals are not invited. Then there was the shopping at the Walmart, scrubbing at the motel. Nice setting, though. I think that is what kept me with it, even with Calgary whomping Tampa Bay in the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals. What I would give to have the three months of a summer on a meadow on a pristine arm of the ocean in Maine...but with access to the grocery store. The PBS website explains the setting chosen:

The series was filmed in Machias, Maine, mainly because that's where the producers found a fairly isolated coastal area. We chose that 1,000-acre area because it was remote enough to allow us to isolate a group from the modern world for a long period of time. Maine is a somewhat historically accurate choice, although at that time most of the settlements there would have been small fishing or trading communities. But there were definitely Europeans, including English, there in the 17th century. Historically, there were no European settlements that we know of on the actual land we chose, but it is the type of location the colonists were looking for up and down the coast -- an area with a protected bay, access to deep water for ships, and a richness and variety of resources, such as animals to hunt, berries to pick and clams to dig.