Inspiration for the Modern Revolutionary
Like so many other Revolutionary events, the road to Yorktown started in Williamsburg. And on the weekend of October 10-11, 234 years after British musicians played “The World Turned Upside Down” as the British forces under Cornwallis surrendered, the run-up to that historical battle will be replayed as Washington’s Army Descends on Williamsburg.
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The sign reads simply, “artificer shop.” An arrow points behind the Magazine. Halfway around the octagon, a door opens to a shop where Jay Howlett has been plying his trade for five years. [Ed. note: In summer 2015 the artificer’s shop moved to a building behind Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop.]
So what is an artificer? “A lot of times that’s my opening because it’s the first thing people will ask,” says Howlett.
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