Here is Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced that Colonial Williamsburg (CW) received a record $102 million from donors in 2021. The amount is an increase of 42 percent over the previous record of $72 million set in 2019. Last year’s total includes...
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Unearthing First Baptist Williamsburg
Over at Christianity Today, Dan Silliman reports on the excavation at First Baptist Church, an African-American church founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Blacks in Williamsburg, Virginia. Here is a taste: They dug up broken bits of lamp, the...
From Princeton to Williamsburg!
In 1773, a recent graduate of the College of New Jersey at Princeton from the southern New Jersey town of Greenwich went to Virginia to teach the children of a wealthy plantation owner. The tutor was Philip Vickers Fithian. The...
African-Americans at Colonial Williamsburg
The Virginia Gazette is running an informative piece on interpreting the African-American experience at Colonial Williamsburg. Here is a taste: Established in 1926, Colonial Williamsburg opened its first public site in 1932. Though African-American interpretation wouldn’t start in earnest as a fleshed...
Seen in the Colonial Williamsburg Bookstore
Under “Local History”: (Thanks to Princeton Seminar alum Ann Jay Harrison for taking this picture and sending it along)....
On the Mission of Colonial Williamsburg
The Editorial Board of The Virginian-Pilot has something to say about this: A taste: If that core mission is some variation on being a “tourist attraction,” an entity that helps support the local Williamsburg economy, that touts “a preserved Colonial neighborhood...
What is Going on at Colonial Williamsburg?
Colonial Williamsburg trying to dig out of large financial hole. “A colonial shooting range” is part of the answer? https://t.co/l6AUEViCuq — Jim Grossman (@JimGrossmanAHA) June 30, 2017 Don’t forget the hatchet-throwing site, Jim! Colonial Williamsburg appears to be in trouble....
Sold Out at Colonial Williamsburg
A reader of this blog was looking for Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? in the bookstore at Colonial Williamsburg. He was informed that they were sold out. I guess this is good news. ...
Carter’s Grove is Back in the Hands of Colonial Williamsburg
I think I remember visiting Carter’s Grove when I visited Colonial Williamsburg in the mid-1970s. When I was writing and promoting The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America, I was often asked...
James Horn Takes His Turn on the Jamestown Cannibalism Story
At yesterday’s New York Times op-ed page James Horn, the vice-president for research and historical interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg and the author of “A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, chimes in on the Jamestown...
The Tea Party and Colonial Williamsburg
After witnessing a colonial Williamsburg reenactment depicting a slave telling the story of a vicious whipping, and another slave crying after her children were sold at auction, Andrew O’Hehir describes the famed living history museum as “a covert battleground in...
Colonial Idol
Forget about American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, The X Factor, and all those other lame talent competitions. Head over to the Colonial Williamsburg website and make your selection for this year’s “Colonial Idol.” Here is a taste: To see...
“Abraham Lincoln Was There And Did Nothing”
Eric Andre has no clue that Colonial Williamsburg has worked hard to bring the slave experience into its programming, but this “crashing” of a Civil War reenactment is funny. HT: Civil War Memory...