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Ron is always up first - he pops out of bed like toast - and greeted the morning sunshine!
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Restaurants along the Yorktown waterfront. Yummmmm...the fish tacos and crab dip!
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One of the "redoubts" - you might say this was like a "defensive trench" dug by the Revolutionary War soldiers, and protected by the "sharpened" posts entrenched on the perimeter.
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View of a redoubt from a different angle.
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(Better explanation of a redoubt than the one provided above.)
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We visited the "Yorktown Victory Center" which featured an indoor museum of Revolutionary War and Civil War artifacts and history displays, as well as two 'living' outdoor museums - one, a 'working farm' and the second, a soldiers' encampment, as they would have been in the late 18th century America.
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These buildings were from the farm - looking at the 'kitchen' building.
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Some pics from Colonial Williamsburg...
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Williamsburg gardens...
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"Surveying" the beautiful gardens...
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The 'foyer' of the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg. Swords and rifles "adorned" each wall.
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Spinning and weaving fabrics...
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Church cemetery on the grounds of Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church...the church has been in continuous use since the 1600's...
Inside the exquisite church...
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Marker inside the church...
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Williamsburg's 'magazine' building interior - housing the weapons and other 'fighting supplies'.
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The "Magazine."
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The Capitol
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He looks like a 'governor' doesn't he?
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Awaiting General Benedict Arnold outside The Capitol building...
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The federal architecture is stunning!
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Doe, a deer, a female deer...minding her own business in a field in Yorktown.
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Yorktown's Custom House.
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Government presence in 2013...
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