Williamsburg - Thomas Jefferson Responds

Thomas Jefferson - Response To The Citizens of Albemarle, February 12, 1790" Thomas Jefferson - Response To The Citizens of Albemarle, February 12, 1790 from Chuck Thompson

Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale: (1805) [cropped] (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We are now beginning something different for the historic area.  Everyone else covers events and tries to get your attention to get your money.  We are going to save you money and give you what you are coming into the area for.  Real history.  Sure, we will also show you all of the fun stuff too, but we are raising the bar of all the other sites and showing you how it all relates.  And if you want to download a copy of this document?  Please click on the Slideshare link and go to my page where you are more than welcome to download a copy of this document.

The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corp performing in Colonial Williamsburg, May, 2009.  

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WTLN - Early Jamestown's Way With Mud

Joshua Graml of Colonial Williamsburg mus inside a inside the barracks building at Jamestown. Archaeologhists and students are building with "mud and stud" structures similar to those unearthed from the remains of the 1608 fort. (Joe Fudge, Daily Press / July 10, 2012

By Mark St. John Erickson, merickson@dailypress.com | 757-247-4783

11:12 p.m. EDT, July 15, 2012

JAMES CITY ——

More than 400 years after America's first permanent English settlement rose from the ground, archaeologists are combining local clay, loam and black needle rush grass in an experimental effort to recreate the unique method used to construct some of the colony's earliest buildings.

The project blends archaeological evidence gleaned fromJamestown with research into the traditional mud-and-stud building techniques of Lincolnshire, England, which was the home of such key settlers asCapt. John Smith and carpenter William Laxton.

It also requires Preservation Virginia archaeologist David Givens and his Historic Jamestowne students to learn on the job, employing their eyes and fingertips in a trial-and-error attempt to unlock the lost secrets of the simple but age-old tradition of building with mud.

"We can talk about the ingredients and the recipe all day long. We know the materials used in the mud-and-stud buildings here pretty well," Givens says.

"What we don't know much about is the implementation. This is a lost art. So we're trying to use this reconstruction process to get back into the mindset of the colonists and see how it was done."

Led by project director William M. Kelso, archaeologists unearthed their first fragments of James Fort's early mud-and-stud buildings during the excavation of a long barracks-like structure back in the mid-1990s.

They knew right away the otherwise ordinary-looking clods of clay were significant because of the unusual textures impressed into their sides.

"All we could see were the marks left by the reeds and the studs," Kelso says. "And now we're using them to help us with the experimental reconstruction."

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Grand Illumination In Colonial Williamsburg

We choose to wait to kick off this site until the right time. That time is the Grand Illumination that happened tonight in Colonial Williamsburg. This is the official kick off of the Holiday seasons in this area. Kind of like the festival of lights in other areas, or the lighting of the Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center in New York City.


Tonight's fireworks display was one of the best in years. We normally like to take a lot of pictures of the fireworks, but then you miss a lot of the show. The Grand Illumination is always the First Sunday of December every year. There is no admission fee. Parking is a bit of a problem and the walk to the events areas can be rather long. Planning ahead of time is a must for the best experience. The Fife and Drum Corp's played for about a half hour before the fireworks and then the Scottish Bag Pipes played afterwards. The fireworks were at three different locations. The Governor's Palace, the Magazine and the Capitol building. Each location has it's own unique display.


The streets were lit with fires. The head count at this event was about 30,000 people. The traffic is always so much fun to maneuver around once the event is over. Shops remain open for Holiday shopping choices and story tellers abound. The Taverns are open to serve meals and they serve refreshments to those interested while the events are going on. This is one of the busiest times of the year in Colonial Williamsburg. Finding lodging is near impossible if you come in at the last minute without reservations. This event always books months in advanced and the best rooms are booked a year in advance.


A great number of people book to be here just before Thanksgiving and stay until just after this event. Thanksgiving in this area is just an incredible feast. But we will cover that next year and get you ready for the event well in advance and help you find the best places and deals for a place to stay and a place to eat. So bookmark us in your favorites now.





Now the above video has been recently added to this post.  We realize that it's a 4th of July video and not from the Grand Illumination, however, the fireworks are very similar in nature.

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