TheDarkRodent
05-18-2010, 07:12 PM
How many have had the opportunity to visit Colonial Williamsburg? I have not been there since 1967 when I was but 5 years of age. I still fondly remember that visit. I can recall watching as the blacksmith made horseshoes, as the cobbler shaped leather to wooden forms, wheelwrights heating the big iron hoops, supplied by blacksmiths, causing them to expand just enough to fit over the wooden wheels, and all manner of tradesmen applying their crafts just as they were some 200 odd years ago.
I can recall the grandeur of the Governors Palace with its magnificent maze of hedges in the garden. The Raleigh Tavern where Thomas Jefferson himself, as a student of at the College of William and Mary once attended a ball. The Wren Building which is America's oldest school.
All my life I have always wished to return there as an adult. I have lived in 14 states in 48 years and have visited all but 8 of them but I have yet to return the Colonial Williamsburg which is a living breathing slice of history. I was wondering if any members of Zoklet have visited this painstaking preservation of life in Colonial America and if so what can you share with us from your memories.
I can recall the grandeur of the Governors Palace with its magnificent maze of hedges in the garden. The Raleigh Tavern where Thomas Jefferson himself, as a student of at the College of William and Mary once attended a ball. The Wren Building which is America's oldest school.
All my life I have always wished to return there as an adult. I have lived in 14 states in 48 years and have visited all but 8 of them but I have yet to return the Colonial Williamsburg which is a living breathing slice of history. I was wondering if any members of Zoklet have visited this painstaking preservation of life in Colonial America and if so what can you share with us from your memories.