Yes, another vacation.....and our first stop was the Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina. There was a special exhibit on the history of Pirates with a focus on Blackbeard. It was very interesting. One of the sections of the museum replicated an old fashioned drug store. A couple weeks ago we ate at an original store like this in Liberty, Missouri. It was actually where President Truman worked as a child.
Before leaving Raleigh, we spent a couple hours at the temple there. This is now the 21st temple that we have been through!The next day we drove 3 1/2 hours north to Williamsburg, Virginia to spend a couple days exploring the preserved colonial city. There was so much to see and do. Getting there a bit late the first day we headed to a tavern for some dinner and entertainment and then on to a one hour presentation about pirates and Blackbeard.
The next day we spent touring buildings and visiting the workstations of many of the tradesmen.
This is inside the Capitol building.Here we are learning about the many purposes of the tavern in the mid 1700's.
This building is the governor's palace which was lived in by whomever filled the position at the time. Wow, it was gorgeous!
The kitchen at the governor's palace. These meals were actually made here in this kitchen to demonstrate how it was done as well as what kind of foods they would have ate.The next day we spent some time at Yorktown, just 20 miles or so from Williamsburg. This was the site of a major battle in the Revolutionary War. This camp re-enactment demonstrated the way the men lived at camp.
Cannon demonstration.
Back to Williamsburg. Every day they bring the activities to a close with this march.
Some of the trades people we enjoyed learning about include:
The Carpenter
The Wig Maker
The Blacksmith
The Wheel Maker
The Shoe MakerThe next day we spent a couple hours at Williamsburg and then drove to Jamestown, Virginia (again about 20 miles from Williamsburg). Jamestown is the very first settlement made by the English on the North American continent. Here we walked through the recreated English settlement, explored the recreated ships and a Native American village from the .
That evening we were signed up to learn about the role of dancing to people of society in the 1770's
Being our last night there we splurged and went to a second show which was a one hour re-enactment of a which trial that ocurred in 1704. We sat in the jury box and participated in the hearing. At the end we, along with everyone else in room, got to vote on the outcome of the trial. Mark and I voted opposite each other.
