Inspiration for the Modern Revolutionary
A gloomy winter’s day is the perfect time for a virtual trip to Williamsburg. We have lots of ways to learn more about the history, architecture, and trades, including some you may not know about. Let these suggestions help inspire you to plan your next visit….
So your shopping is done (show-off!), the presents are wrapped, and the family is dangerously close to channel surfing. What to do? Why not spend part of your Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, with us? There’s a festive atmosphere, amazing decorations, and full slate of family-friendly activities on tap. Here’s a guide that might help….
The finishing touches are being applied to Liberty’s Ice Pavilion, which will open for a second season of ice skating on Duke of Gloucester Street Friday, November 18. The oval rink is 50-feet wide and 70-feet long, and it will remain open through Monday, February 20.
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What can you learn from a kid? Plenty, if you happen to run across any of Colonial Williamsburg’s Junior Interpreters.
The JI’s, as they are commonly referred to, help the city come alive, especially during the summer, when their presence is most conspicuous. You’ll find them working in trade shops, demonstrating 18th-century dance, and playing games and interpreting daily life in sites like the Powell House and the Wythe House….
Everywhere you turn this summer, you’ll see kids interacting with our costumed interpreters. From hands-on activities inside our trades to 18th-century dancing lessons to milking our cow—you never know what’s waiting around the next corner!…
Colonial Williamsburg offers vivid sensory experiences: the beauty of a garden; the smell of a cooking fire; the sound of carriage wheels crunching on shells; the taste of fresh gingerbread cookies from the Raleigh Tavern Bakery. But there’s plenty to touch, too: objects to hold, examine, and manipulate. Work to be done….
The recruits of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums have come to the Revolutionary City from many different backgrounds. Some always knew they’d join this ensemble. Others seemed to have stumbled on it accidentally.
All of them have signed on to a life-changing journey….
Some of the recruits had never come before. Others had come every year for as long as they could remember. But for all of them, first-timers or not, the occasion of Colonial Williamsburg’s Drummers Call marked a threshold; this time next year, they’ll be the ones captivating crowds in the Revolutionary City.
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The tidy brigade of fife and drum recruits glides along in step to the steady clicks of the instructor’s drumsticks. They execute a U-turn without breaking rank.
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