My recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg was a momentous one for me.
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Star Wars comes to Colonial Williamsburg
Over the Christmas break my family and I travelled to our favorite vacation spot, Colonial Williamsburg. Over the holidays the facades of the Historic Area are supposed to be wonderfully decorated, and wanted to experience this time of year first hand. The decorations were beautiful, and the weather was so warm I didn’t even wear…
My Happy Place
As Christmas nears, and my schedule relentlessly attacks my soul, I find myself being dreadfully tired. I’m much due for a break, and one is coming, but there’s still a lot left to be done before I can rest. So, as weariness creeps in, I find myself going to my happy place. I love Williamsburg…
The Summer book stack
One of my very favorite parts of the Williamsburg experience is being given a sum of money, pointed to their excellent book store, and told, “OK, go play.” Each time we head down I come back with a stack of books to enjoy over the long month in-between our visit. This time, as we were…
A multi-lens vacation
One of the most agonizing aspects of being on vacation is taking all sorts of wonderful photographs and having to sit on them while I’m away. I don’t like to broadcast when we are away from home, call it a discipline for the age of social media, but there are times where I desperately want…
History – Strange but True
The Stamp Act is hailed as one of the sparks which lead to the American Revolution. Colonists resented Parliament enforcing such taxes without their consent, and felt their rights as English Citizens were being trampled. So, for the first time, the Colonies began to communicate together in an effort to coordinate the defense of those…
