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Fans of Colonial Williamsburg’s annual brick kiln burn can double the experience this year. The Historic Trades brickmakers will ignite two kilns several months apart this year.

The first burn begins Sept. 8 as they stoke the kiln fires for five days to push the kiln’s internal temperatures to nearly 2,000° Fahrenheit. The second kiln burn is scheduled to begin Dec. 8.

Learn more about the September 8 brick kiln burn.

Learn more about the brickmaker in Colonial Williamsburg.

Robertson’s Windmill, a treasured Historic Area landmark, moved to a new home last night. A team of house moving experts worked with Colonial Williamsburg architects, archaeologists, historians and tradesmen to settle the windmill on new footings at Great Hopes Plantation. The new location will revive the windmill’s role at the heart of rural life.

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Tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Hennage Auditorium, hear Suzanne Hood, Associate Curator of Ceramics and Glass, deliver her talk, “Dirty Old Dishes: Archaeology, Ceramics, and Historic Interiors.” Suzanne explores the role of historical archaeology in creating the accurate interior settings we see in today’s house museums.

This program is presented in the Hennage Auditorium inside the Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at 326 West Francis Street and is part of a monthly series scheduled through December. Before each presentation, enjoy light fare, a glass of wine or a cold beer for purchase at the Wallace Café open …

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This summer’s visitors will be the last to see Robertson’s windmill on the site where it was constructed in 1957. Tomorrow night, the iconic old structure will be moved to Great Hopes Plantation, becoming part of a broader narrative of rural life.

The move requires modern and historic experts, as house movers, architects and engineers team with archaeologists, historians, and rural craftsmen to resettle the windmill on a new foundation.

Read more about plans to relocate the windmill.

Read The Miller and the Windmill from the journal Colonial Williamsburg.

One of the most bitter presidential campaigns in U. S. history is part of a surprising lesson for a 21st-century student. Thomas Jefferson explains how negative campaigning, partisan politics, and contested elections have been part of our political system since the earliest days of the republic.

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