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As we enter December, our thoughts naturally turn to Christmas. In Williamsburg the season starts with the Grand Illumination and this year, the date...
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William Henry Allen was a proud young man when he was appointed as a third lieutenant in the young U.S. Navy. He had joined at the age of 16 and now,...
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Samuel Bellamy was a real 18th century pirate… Sometimes known as “Black” Sam Bellamy, he was known to have flown “a large...
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It was called the “war to end all wars” and when it ended with an Armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918,...
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It was the most celebrated ship in the U.S. Navy at the time… the ironclad USS Monitor. It had fought the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia,...
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Although the English arrived in Virginia in 1607, and immediately began to look askance at the local Indians as agents of the Devil (Part 1), it was...
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With Halloween approaching, we think of witches and goblins, so I thought it might be interesting to look at the historical truth… Do you know...
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Henry Whiting and John Throckmorton of Gloucester County, Virginia, were visiting Fredericksburg in October of 1772 when they became a crime...
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It was summer in Virginia, hot and humid. The young wife and mother sat on the porch of her house in order to catch a breeze and the light, as she...
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A commemorative stone recalls the event, but few of the people who walk by it every day could actually tell you what it says, or even care. As is true...
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