From Lassie to presidents to Hollywood celebrities—there have been several famous faces to pass through our hotels and take strolls (or carriage rides) down DoG Street.
…
Let Freedom Ring: Colonial Williamsburg and First Baptist Church Team Up for Black History Month
In 1776, a revolution was brewing in Williamsburg, but it’s not the one of which you’re thinking. It involved religion and the black community. Fast forward to the 21st century, and Colonial Williamsburg and First Baptist Church are challenging the nation to ring the church’s bell in the name of freedom and equality.
…
Making Merry, Then and Now: 5 Ways Colonial Christmases Were Different From Ours
Williamsburg is a magical place to spend the holiday season. The town is awash in tradition, but not all of it is strictly 18th-century. Here are five ways that a colonial Christmas season was really different from our modern festivities.
How? Glad you asked….
WANTED! Are These Williamsburg Puppeteers Actually Grifters in Disguise?
An itinerant puppet theater has been sighted recently on Duke of Gloucester St. At minimum the wooden-headed shows embrace the kind of inflammatory rhetoric favored by Mr. Henry. At worst they may be concealing some type of criminal activity….
The Howards of Virginia: When Hollywood Came to Williamsburg
This Sunday the Kimball Theatre will be showing The Howards of Virginia, a 1940 film starring Cary Grant… and Williamsburg. This is the story of how the first Hollywood production in the restored town came to be.
In September 1940 Nazi Germany was advancing, Britain was under bombardment, and the first peacetime conscription in American history was underway. Democracy itself seemed to be under siege. Against that backdrop came The Howards of Virginia, a celebration of the nation’s founding through the eyes of one family.
…
Protecting Independence: Behind the Scenes at the Paper Conservation Lab
A new vodcast shows how the Paper Conservation Lab is protecting 1770s Virginia Gazettes.
You receive a copy of the first full printing of the Declaration of Independence in Virginia. It’s a true rarity. Only a handful of copies are known to still exist….
Ice Skating Comes to DoG Street
The weather is still pretty warm here, but if you’re looking to get a head start on holiday season fun, here’s your opportunity. Ice skating is coming to Duke of Gloucester Street!
…
Maria Cosway: The Most Fascinating 18th-century Woman You’ve Never Heard Of!
According to legend, Thomas Jefferson was walking along a street in Paris, when he spied the famous painter Maria Cosway. He leapt over a fence to get close to her—and fell and broke his wrist. How did this girl, born to English parents in Florence, Italy, become an artistic luminary in the innermost circles of London society—and so ensnare the heart of Thomas Jefferson? Maria (rhymes with Messiah) Cosway is about to make her public debut for Colonial Williamsburg in New Orleans for the 95th Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. Portrayed by… me….
To Catch a Witch: The True Story of Grace Sherwood
In “Cry Witch,” a popular evening program that reenacts a 1706 witchcraft trial, the audience gets to decide the outcome. Here is the true story behind it.
It all started with the untimely deaths of some pigs and a failed cotton crop. In Pungo, a settlement a couple of miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now Virginia Beach, John and Jane Gisburne were convinced there had to be a reason for the bad luck.
…
Blackbeard’s Head and the Hangman’s Noose: What We Really Know about Pirates in Williamsburg
Blackbeard will be seeking his revenge when he and his crew haunt DoG Street Halloween weekend, but what did the legendary pirate really have to do with the colonial capital? And what could he possibly have against us?
…
- «Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- …
- 29
- Next Page»