Colonial Williamsburg’s Wythe Candy Shop
Wythe Candy Shop has been in Merchants Square on Duke of Gloucester Street for as long as I can remember….
Grand Illumination 2012 today in Colonial Williamsburg
Take a step back into the eighteenth century at today’s Grand Illumination in Colonial Williamsburg. Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell…
Governor Bob McDonnell: Thanksgiving Proclamation 2012
Governor Bob McDonnell has issued a proclamation recognizing November 22, 2012, as Thanksgiving Day in Virginia. THANKSGIVING DAY WHEREAS, the…
Daily Progress Calls Founding Fathers Un-American
American history, at least before the Russian Revolution is no friend to the LGBT movement, and hijacking the founders to persuade a modern audience otherwise is, at best, deliberately ignorant.
“The Great Charge of Ferryes:” Tolls or Taxes in Colonial Virginia
Expenses of publicly financed crossings quickly exceeded expectations, and it was the poor who suffered most from the consequent increases in taxation.