Continuing our early December visit to Colonial Williamsburg...
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| Barrels of fun |
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| Touring the Governor's Palace |
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| A special treat for me was hearing this guy (Dean Shostak) playing Ben Franklin's Armonica (and also glass bells and even a glass violin); I'd first seen one of Franklin's Armonicas in far-away Colmar, but had never heard one... |
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| Touring another house...as owners of a roomful of Statton Oldtowne cherry Queen Anne we really enjoyed seeing all the OBF (old brown furniture) |
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| Peyton Randolph House (owner of many plantations) |
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| Huge old oak catching the autumnal sunset |
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| Everyone loves a parade...I'm up in the warm courthouse, out of the wind, loving the parade, while Ken is shooting and Vicki and Susan are shivering on the bench |
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| Much more back in the museum... |
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| Nearly a whole wall of Peaceable Kingdoms |
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| Tons of Americana, colonial and later |
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| We love the Primitives |
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| More good eats at Christina Campbell's Tavern; although some said the chicken wasn't so good |
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| Furniture making and re-making |
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| Including an harpsichord |
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| More education and enlightenment at the wheelwright's |
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| Paper and printing downstairs |
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| In session at the old courthouse |
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| But wait, there's more |
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| On the way back to Cary, we took a short-cut, the ferry across the James River estuary; perhaps the world's only free ferry |
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| Nonetheless reminding us of similar boat-rides in Norway and New Zealand, even the ferry not taken in Turkey... |
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