Colonial Williamsburg, VA October 10, 2011

     After our cruise we flew from Boston to Chesapeake, VA to visit Stephen, one of my sons (I have nine children ) and his family. 
     On Monday Stephen drove us up to visit Colonial Williamsburg, the nation’s oldest and largest living history museum dedicated to preserving America’s revolutionary ideas through its community of the 1770’s – the years in which the colony took its first steps toward becoming a new nation.
     After our first stop at a representative plantation, we walked down Gloucester Street and passed the Governor’s Palace and garden, an Episcopal Church and graveyard which indicated that the average age of death was around 50 years old, several taverns and the Post Office; however, the highlight for me was a street re-enactment including Patrick Henry’s response to the Declaration of Independence, a slave woman’s reaction to freedom which didn’t include her or her children and culminated with an appearance of Martha Washington in a horse drawn carriage.
     What a great way to remember our historic roots.