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This week, Williamsburg-James City County schools teamed up with Colonial Williamsburg to help provide over 100 Thanksgiving meals for families in the community. On Tuesday morning, employees from … ...
Each November, typically the week before Thanksgiving, Colonial Williamsburg staff cook bricks in the brickyard at the intersection of Nicholson and Queen streets. The bricks are cooked in a kiln ...
A photo caption included in an earlier version of this story gave the incorrect last name for an actor-interpreter in Colonial Williamsburg. His name is Dennis Watson, not Dennis Montgomery. The ...
Colonial historic sites often focus on white settlers, or us as slaves, and not the many Black people who made art in the most dire circumstances. A new exhibit is changing that.
Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia is lovely, quaint, and heart-warming all year round, but never more so than during its Christmas season, which runs from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day.
Experience a Colonial Williamsburg Christmas While Christmas certainly wasn’t as commercialized in the late 18 th Century as it is now, the historic area does have a full schedule of events for ...
Nov. 26—WILLIAMSBURG — The 17th Annual Williamsburg Turkey Trot 5K is set to take place on Thanksgiving morning. Starting at 9 a.m. in downtown Williamsburg, this family-friendly event offers ...
“The first real Thanksgiving was near here,” said Ailsa Firstenberg, a 16-year-old junior interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, not far from the James River and the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay ...
WILLIAMSBURG — The Williamsburg Area Transit Authority is opening a new free route through Colonial Williamsburg. The new route, which will be referred to as Route 15: Colonial, opens Sunday ...