Tuesday, September 30

Declaration of Independence with the mixed crowd

Presentation of the troops

Colonial cow

Another day in Colonial Williamsburg.  We went to the Apothocary Shop which was the one place I remembered from my visit here as a child.  It was neater then but still interesting.  Went to the Capital building (was once the House of Burgess) where the Virginia declaration of independence was formed, a precursor to the national one.  Saw a bunch of other craftsmen and did enjoy the day.  Steve found his long clay pipe (his best memory of his childhood visit here).  It's amazing what sticks in the mind of a child while traveling.  The crowds were a bit bigger so no chance for the lengthy conversations we had yesterday with the living history folk here, but still learned a lot.  For me the highlight was having the Declaration of Independence read aloud in the town commons as a call to arms.  Pretty impressive.  More so in the connotation of "of the day".

Capital Building window

Tomorrow we're going to Jamestown and back to the early 1600's or maybe Yorktown.