Shooting Longbows while Imagining the Hundred Years War
Learning from a highly informative gent that ongbows were distinctly English and decidedly effective, he invited us to a longbow tournament in Williamsburg.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Learning from a highly informative gent that ongbows were distinctly English and decidedly effective, he invited us to a longbow tournament in Williamsburg.
On George Whitefield’s twenty-fifth birthday, he preached to a packed Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, on December 16, 1739.
Cornwallis…Yorktown…Lafayette…Comte de Grasse…Battle of the Capes…Washington…Rochambeau…espionage…timing…Providence… Prelude to Victory.
The mists of time blew our way again as we re-entered the church, this time to 1676 as we met Governor Berkeley, who dealt with a local rebellion.
Recently we visited Historic Jamestowne on the anniversary of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1677, later in the day. First we met with John Rolfe of 1621.
Thus, I present to you, my dear Readers, an accounting of what I experienced while the quiet town of Williamsburg, in 1781, was occupied…Under the Redcoat.
Recently my kids and I visited Historic Jamestowne for a reenactment of Lord De La Warr’s arrival 400 years ago on June 10, 1610.
Announcing to the world that King George III was a tyrant, Thomas Jefferson became a traitor to the British Crown.
Would the two ever meet on amicable terms?
The amazing story of General Lafayette and the spy whom he helped achieve freedom, becoming his namesake after the American Revolution.
The kids and I were captured by the Redcoats and they seemed to be targeting me!
We also attended dragoon bootcamp to spy for the Continental Army.