Inspiration for the Modern Revolutionary
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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A Time to Remember Those Who Served
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The Wall That Heals, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., has been exhibited in some 400 cities since it was unveiled on Veterans Day in 1996.
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List of Virginia Revolutionary War soldiers or their widows eligible for pensions from the state of Virginia.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Special Collections.
By Bill Sullivan
Veterans Day comes this year amidst ongoing debates over what we owe the men and women who have risked life and limb to defend our country….
The Wall That Heals, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., will be visiting Williamsburg Oct. 9-13. The 250-foot long memorial and accompanying exhibit will occupy the lawn in front of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum on Francis Street….