Highlights
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational institution that receives no regular state or federal funding. The Foundation:
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational institution that receives no regular state or federal funding. The Foundation:
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
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Simplify your garden
Bodacious blooms on roses, camellias and peonies quickly draw the eye.
Smaller plants from a simpler time, however, provide just as much visual pleasure — possibly more intrigue — asserts Colonial Williamsburg plant curator Lawrence Griffith....Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Books and Magazines, James City County, Hobbies, Williamsburg (Virginia)
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Keeping Gettysburg On The Map
In 1863, 11 major roads converged on Gettysburg, Pa. Which is why history did, too. The founding of the American nation was the hinge of world history: Popular sovereignty would have its day. The collision of armies here was the hinge of American...Tags: William Faulkner, Tourism and Leisure, Morgan Freeman, History, Gardens and Parks
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Remembering Gettysburg is our duty
In 1863, eleven major roads converged on Gettysburg, Pa. Which is why history did, too. The founding of the American nation was the hinge of world history: Popular sovereignty would have its day. The collision of armies here was the hinge of American...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Morgan Freeman, History, Gardens and Parks, Virginia
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Restoration should not unmake settled communities
Diane Barthel-Bouchier is chairwoman of the Sociology Department at Stony Brook University.What do Stony Brook and Old Bethpage have to do with a controversy involving Pierre Cardin in the south of France? The fashion mogul is the new Lord of Lacoste, a village of some 415 inhabitants in Provence. Not content to restore the chateau, former...Tags: Stony Brook, Renovation, Population, Family, Williamsburg (Virginia)
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Economy, gas prices slow down tourism in Historic Triangle
247-7870Historic Triangle businesses hoping to continue to cash in on tourist dollars after 2007's record-setting year received a reality check at the end of the summer season — people just aren't spending what they used to. Tourism officials say...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Labor Day, Pat Bell, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, James City County
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Handyman's history
757-247-4952When Bob Williams walked away from the white-collar world in 1991, he was trying to escape nearly 20 years of living with toxic corporate stress. Virtually every morning, he'd wake up sick to his stomach from anxiety, the former ship repair and marine...Tags: Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Metal and Mineral, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg (Virginia), Family
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Chocolate: Historically delicious
757-247-4952In the beginning, chocolate was a bitter and mostly cold drink — and it stayed that way for some 2,500 years. It took a sweet-toothed Spanish conquistador to add sugar to the traditional Aztec beverage sometime in the early 1500s. Another 125 years...Tags: Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber, Gays and Lesbians, Metal and Mineral, Regional Authority
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Pine Knot's preserver
The Daily ProgressSometimes the first act of preservation is realizing, and then convincing others, that something is worth saving. When Roger F.H. Leclere and his wife, Martha, initially laid eyes on Pine Knot in the mid-1990s it was in rough shape. Theodore Roosevelt's...Tags: History, Property, Theodore Roosevelt, Death and Dying, Albemarle County
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Imparting colonial history
247-7429When Ralph Freer first came to Williamsburg after retiring from the federal government, he brought his interest in history with him. Wanting to be involved in the telling of the area's history, Freer started by volunteering in the stables at Colonial...Tags: History, American Revolutionary War, Historic Jamestowne, Archaeology, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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In the news
•Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4639 in Williamsburg recently held its sixth annual golf tournament at the Kiskiack Golf Club. Roger Poole, Harry Keys, Bill Hunter and David Glass edged out eight other teams of four to win the tournament. The tournament...Tags: Movies, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Clubs and Associations, Film Festivals, Arts
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Try to replicate the flavor at home
757-247-4952If you're looking for a modern-day equivalent of 18th-century chocolate, Colonial Williamsburg foodways interpreter Jim Gay says you have only one real choice. Inspired by the chance visit of a Mars candy company employee to a Governor's Palace kitchen...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Gays and Lesbians, Mount Vernon, Minority Groups
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THE LIST
10 places to see before you're 10 years old, from Travel+Leisure online: 1. American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore 2. Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. 3. Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif. 4. Ellis Island, New York City 5. Grand Canyon, Ariz....Tags: Los Angeles, Sears Tower, Anaheim, American Visionary Art Museum, New York
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