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in Connect
May 22, 2012
Watch “Declaring Independence”
Did you miss Saturday’s live brodcast? Video from Saturday’s Historic Area webcast, Declaring Independence, is waiting for you at Colonial Williamsburg CONNECT.
in Armoury
May 18, 2012
Outfitting an Operational Tinsmith Shop.
Tinsmith tools – recently received of Bill and Judy McMillen.
As webcam watchers are well aware, construction of the tinsmith shop is off to a healthy start. The foundation has been laid by our Historic Trades brick masons, and by late August or early September (after the next brick firing) construction will begin on the chimney and fireplace. Historic Trades carpenters are planning a summer at Great Hopes plantation, pit sawing the building’s framing members and preparing clapboards and shingles. If all goes as planned, the tinsmith shop frame will be raised in December of 2012.
But not …
May 17, 2012
Can fear overcome reason?
“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”
–Thomas Jefferson to William Roscoe, December 27, 1820
in Connect
May 16, 2012
Watch our live webcast Saturday at 3:00 EDT
How does a community decide to rebel against its government? Watch how Williamsburg chose independence in May’s live webcast, hosted and moderated by public radio personality Cathy Lewis. See reenactments from our Revolutionary City program alongside interviews and discussion from historians and interpreters.
May 15, 2012
Come out for Drummers Call, May 18-20
Music is on the march this weekend as Fifes and Drums regiments from across the country converge in Williamsburg for a three-day muster. Plan to visit for a long weekend packed with special events and plenty of military field music.
Learn more about all of this weekend’s big events.
May 11, 2012
An update from the cannon project
Our apologies for the absence of recent posts to the cannon blog. Historic Trades’ attention has been focused on the Armoury project and a host of smaller undertakings around town, but a group of folks has been working diligently behind the scenes to get ready for another pour.
After our failed pour of June 2010, the Historic Trades brickmasons removed the entire superstructure of the furnace down to the melting pan. Examining the mass of bronze there did not reveal anything conclusive about the failure, but reinforced the probability that the metal simply was not hot enough when we …
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