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• Cookies of Christmas Past

  
  In The Pink — Authority: 129
  When I was a little girl (yes, half of my blog posts begin this way), my family would sometimes spend a few days around Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. This was when you could take your three kids on vacation without tapping into their college funds. If you’ve never been, it’s like traveling through ...
  19 hours ago

• Williamsburg, Decorations

  
  5 kids, 2 labs, 1 lizard and a hermit crab — Authority: 106
  I live near Colonial Williamsburg and I thought Id share with you the beautiful decorations that they put up every year. Usually there is a parade, and then we have "The Grand Illumination." I seldom go to the Illumination because it is dark and crowded and I have small kids. Seems like a newspaper headline waiting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mix Pleasure with Your Business

  
  From the desk (and BlackBerry) of Keith Parnell — Authority: 131
  Nicole and I visited the Williamsburg Winery this weekend for their annual Christmas Holiday Open House. Providing the proper mix of pleasure and business to your life allows your creative mind and ideas to regnerate themselves. Let’s all make a concerted effort during this holiday season to let your family know ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

  
  Gherkins & Tomatoes — Authority: 424
  Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, A fig for cold, sing care away; And may they who thereat repine, On brown bread and small beer dine. Virginia Almanack 1766 To paraphrase former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld: There’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Im Awkward At Parties...

  
  Meade Music — Authority: 124
  I know a lot of people think Im a pretty free wheeling party kind of guy. But really, it couldnt be further from the truth! Put me in party, and I cramp up a lot. I call myself Humpty Dumpty of parties. Because Im always ready to fall and split myself in two. This time of year lots of people have those Christmas ...
  2 weeks ago

• "A Grande Cappuccino, Prithee"

  
  The Skeptical Bureaucrat — Authority: 425
  The National Trust for Historic Preservation has posted an item about a new exhibit in Colonial Williamsburg: Coffeehouses, Storytelling, and Relevance . This could be the story of Starbucks, Saxby’s, or Caribou Coffee. This could be the story of hundreds of independent coffee houses that dot the American ...
  4 weeks ago

• REVIEW: Colonial Christmas Brides

  
  WORD up! — Authority: 134
  “Colonial Christmas Brides” by Lauralee Bliss and Irene Brand is a charming collection of stories that takes the reader back in time to the days of America’s birth through the fictional accounts of settlers of Jamestown and Williamsburg. These stories are peppered with colonial history, and take me back to the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Newspapers and Museums: The Same Dilemma

  
  Philip Kennicott — Authority: 441
              I’m personally allergic to historical reenactments and most forms of interactive history telling. I think all too many museums and historical sites grasp at straws, technically and aesthetically, when they try to recreate the way history is told. But I acknowledge the problem of falling ...
  4 weeks ago

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