Highlights
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational institution that receives no regular state or federal funding. The Foundation:
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational institution that receives no regular state or federal funding. The Foundation:
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
preserves and interprets the Historic Area.
operates for-profit subsidiaries, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, and golf courses. sells licensed products and reproductions.
In addition to the Historic Area, the foundation also operates:
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Bassett Hall
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
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Socking it to 'em
247-4737As a schoolgirl, Meg Meredith once pretended to be sick so she could stay home and crochet. Now, at 26, Meredith's obsession has taken a knitted form. Socks, sweaters, shawls, stuffed animals and baby clothes fly off her needles by the week. Recently,...Tags: College of William and Mary, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Thomas Jefferson, MySpace
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Community events
Mike Seeger will perform Music from the True Vine, Southern folk music, 7:30 tonight at the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for Friends of the Williamsburg Regional Library and $8 for children under 16. For...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, People, Charity, Children, NASA
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Hear period instruments at series
Chamber music performed with period instruments during the program "Music at the Museums" will allow guests to listen to solo performances from members of Governors Musick, Colonial Williamsburg's resident early music ensemble. The event is being held 3-...Tags: Williamsburg
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Tall stories
Colonial Williamsburg's fourth annual Storytelling Festival will give guests a chance opportunity to tell their own stories.
"Spinning Stories and Spanning Time," is scheduled for Sept. 19-21. Storytellers from around the world will converge here to...Tags: Festive Event
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Guilty pleasures
Chocolate is a delicious ingredient for many colonial and modern dishes. Beer is a refreshing beverage for many. Colonial Williamsburg is offering two seasonal programs in the Historic Area to highlight the 18th-century methods for producing and...Tags: Distilling and Brewing Industry, Williamsburg, Executive Branch, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Beverage Industry
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Buses to display ads on the side
Virginia GazetteThe city and James City County tightly regulate the size of signs displayed on businesses. But those rules don't apply to the rolling billboards coming your way. Adams Outdoor Advertising of Norfolk announced an agreement Wednesday to put advertising...Tags: Williamsburg, Advertising, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), James City County, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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Restaurants suffering indigestion
The Virginia GazetteYou could eat at a different restaurant every day for 17 months in greater Williamsburg, so replete is the menu of competitors. The number has grown steadily over the years to 506 restaurants ranging from sit-down delis and fast food to elegant dining...Tags: State Budgets, Retirement, Theft, Bennigan's, Williamsburg
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Events This Week
The Virginia GazetteSaturday/30 12th annual Virginia Symphony concert--The symphony returns to Yorktown Victory Monument at 7:30 p.m. for a free concert. Take lawn chairs and picnic baskets. Fifes and Drums of York Town give a pre-concert performance at 6 p.m. The Actor'...Tags: Jamestown Settlement, Libraries and Museums, Dean Martin, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Mister Lonely
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Re-enactor brings past into the present at mill
Special to The Baltimore SunSusan Wooden can work miracles with history. She can get people excited about doing ordinary tasks such as laundry, washing dishes, or hearth cooking. "I go back to a time when there was no electricity and no freezers," Wooden said. "And then I show...Tags: History, Revolutions, Towson University, Williamsburg, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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A GLORIOUS winner
A square garden inspired by Colonial Williamsburg takes the third of our five Glorious Gardens Contest awards. -
It's SHOW time at William & Mary
It was SHOW time around Williamsburg Tuesday as about 200 College of William and Mary students spread out across the area for the second annual Students Helping Out Williamsburg — or SHOW — day. The mostly freshmen students helped set up...Tags: College of William and Mary, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Williamsburg, Colleges and Universities
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Colonial Williamsburg launches election blog
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's recently launched Web site, "Jefferson's Blog," offers voters a new forum on which to discuss the upcoming presidential election. The blog aims to bring history and modernity together by highlighting a quote from...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Elections, Political Candidates
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