Building Gabion Earthworks at Prelude to Victory
My son helped build gabion earthwork fortifications, the results of which can be seen today at Yorktown Battlefield from two wars.
18th Century Virginia Musings
My son helped build gabion earthwork fortifications, the results of which can be seen today at Yorktown Battlefield from two wars.
Last weekend Colonial Williamsburg broke with tradition to offer a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862.
Prompting our visit was the EFT premier which my son recently acted for, as aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 in New Orleans.
While my son spent several minutes trying to get the perfect picture of the gorgeous cardinal, Thomas Jefferson joined us in bird watching!
They needed a lot of people for a crowd scene and about 100 showed up in proper attire: contemporary clothing, in dull colors.
Enlisting as a soldier in the Continental Army for three years, giving up all my rights, learning to work as a unit, while ready to endure hardship…
I danced with the colonel, who with a thick Scottish accent talked in my ear, to either chit chat or give me direction and twirling me about.