We All Have a Past

Greg and I took what he calls, I believe, "An Unauthorized" trip to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. "Unauthorized" because it is "just because" with no wedding, family reunion, summer break, etc. attached to it. While others toiled, we went back 250 years to walk around.

I had never been and it was fantastic. Greg went to grad school at College of William and Mary and had lived here. It was great to see it through his eyes and experience history as "a 1930s fantasy of 18th Century life" as Greg's friend Larry put it. The place has authentic structures from the 1700s, but its accuracy in terms of how it was all laid out is a bit filtered through the 1930s when John D. Rockefeller bought up the place to "restore" it as it once was. And it was great that he did. Believe me, there is plenty of research and original structures here to keep a history buffed drooling. They have really tried to be as true as possible. We took a tour of the Governor's Palace (a reconstruction) that was meticulously researched. Our guide was amazingly knowledgeable and answered every question Greg threw at him.


Me posing in front of the statue of Lord Botetourt on the W & M campus. Freshman are supposed to bow.

It snowed on our first day like it did back in the 1700s! It was amazing.
Greg and I using modern conveniences for communication and weather. Shame, shame.

We had lunch at Chownings Tavern in CW. Greg worked there 30 years ago when he was a student. With THIS woman who is still working there! What a fun first meal.