Colonial Williamsburg
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Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons
Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.
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Great article!
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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.
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@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!
