Joe and Darlene and David and I spent 7 1/2 hours at
Colonial Williamsburg today. I had hoped to be able to see Colonial
Williamsburg and then do a short tour of Jamestown or Yorktown, but we spent
the whole day at Williamsburg. It was very well done with people in period
clothing in many different buildings explaining what they were doing. They
didn't stay as "in period" as the performer at Appomattox yesterday,
but they were all very interesting and knowledgeable. Especially interesting
were the presentations at the Governor's Palace and the Capitol building as
they were relating what was happening right around the beginning of the Revolution
with the events that led to Virginia declaring independence and then the
signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. We had lunch at one
of the "taverns" with a cute little waitress (self-described as a
lowly uneducated serving wench), the rather rowdy tavern owner and a guitar
player serenading us. We had another absolutely gorgeous fall day and I would
highly recommend this outing to anyone in the area.
Making a wooden shingle
The daughters' room in the Governor's Palace
Pulpit in Bruton Parish Church
Court House steeple
Colonial Garden
In the Magazine
The tin shop
The wigmaker
The apothecary
The capital building
The living quarters for the jailer's family
The "throne" in the jail cell (there were 4 cells). It was really quite advanced for it's time as the "deposit" went down a chute to a septic tank outside.
Darlene doing her "tree" yoga pose and David, well, David just being David.
The dreaded Red Coats
The cabinetmaker shop
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