This picture was actually taken along the Colonial Parkway (which links the Historic Triangle; Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown)- we stopped along the way to kill some time as we were going to get there before they opened.
Here are some photos from the outside of the museum where they have recreated what part of Yorktown may have looked like around the time of the Revolution.
This is a garden- an organic garden, they try to grow things that may have been grown here in the late 1700s and using methods that would have been used then.
Here are some turkeys that were chillin' in the shade- the students weren't too fond of them, they were all talking about how stupid turkeys are (one of them said they are stupid, but delicious).
This is a kitchen.
Laundry (I really hate doing laundry- but we are really rather lucky, laundry has always been an unpleasant chore but it has gotten much easier).
This type of house would have been owned by someone rather well off (not gentry but pretty wealthy).
These are some of the toasts patriots made while celebrating the Declaration of Independence- my favorite is the last one- "Perpetual Itching without the benefit of scratching, to the enemies of America."
I like this quote almost as much- "No Man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail: for being in a ship is being in jail with the chance of being drowned... A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company." Samuel Johnson, 1759
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