Colonial Williamsburg

[Big_Al]

It isn't easy to acknowledge the past when it doesn't correspond to your preconceptions. I admire their attempt to present the past as accurately as they can. I'm glad to have read that article.

Big Al

[Rontuner]

Now I want to go there.. We drove by on our trip to the outer banks.

[wtg]

Me, too. And I don't even like to travel!

Loved this bit:

“I love when people come and suddenly they realize they’re not just talking to a historian, or an actor who has a script, but when they realize that you can ask Thomas Jefferson anything,” said Kurt Smith, who has interpreted the author of the Declaration of Independence for nine years. When I encountered him as Jefferson on the palace green, he answered a wide range of guest questions that spanned architecture, religious freedom and his personal feelings on Alexander Hamilton. “Most of the time I just enjoy allowing the audience to take me wherever they’re interested. They get to choose their own adventure. How cool is that?”

The real Jefferson wrote over 50,000 letters in his lifetime, and Smith has read them all. “When I first came on here, I was given six months of study where I didn’t take on the clothes,” he told me. “My job is to present Jefferson as honestly and as truthfully as we have,” he said, “I think a lot of people wrestle with him because he’s human. My job is to just get him right.”

That's some serious dedication.

[AdagioM]

That’s great. We visited in 1983, maybe? A very long time ago! Sounds like it’s come a long way, in terms of programming.

[Piano*Dad]

Some of us live here ...

[Piano*Dad]

Terry Meyers is a friend of mine. He's retired, but he still serves W&M. I'm president of the Faculty Assembly and he is the loyal Parliamentarian! I know Mitchell Reiss as well. He was in a really tough financial spot when he took over CW. Small town.

[AdagioM]

@Piano-Dad said in Colonial Williamsburg:

Some of us live here ...

My father-in-law taught for a year at William & Mary when he was on sabbatical from Washington University in St. Louis; he was a law professor. Which is how we ended up visiting Colonial Williamsburg!

So yes, real people live there. Hi, you!

[DeweyLOU]

My niece just recently graduated from W&M also. We toured CW a couple of years ago and would enjoy doing it again.

[AndyD]

"The real Jefferson wrote over 50,000 letters in his lifetime, "

He really missed his Mum.

(actually doing the maths it's about two per day)

[Mik]

In his defense that was the social media of the day. Must have been hard without emojis.

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