Colonial Williamsburg

I could support the idea of selling the manor house to a historic preservation group such as Colonial Williamsburg or APVA/Preservation Virginia.

The Shad Plank 2010

Perhaps in the not too distant future, we will create our own kind of 'Colonial Williamsburg', where tourists may gaze at journalists carrying pencils and pads and printing on paper, tv news crews carrying cameras the size of refrigerators, or a world where people can only see American Idol once a week, at a pre-established time.

Rosenblumtv 2009

He canceled a Friday trip to Indiana and a weekend family getaway to Colonial Williamsburg, Va., to work on the budget.

Budget agreement averts government shutdown 2011

"It is a very good Georgian house," said Ed Chappell, director of architectural research at Colonial Williamsburg, who wrote a study of Fairfield in 2009.

Va. couple puts up for sale house where George Washington slept Steve Hendrix 2011

He canceled a Friday trip to Indiana and a weekend family getaway to Colonial Williamsburg, Va., to work on the budget.

Budget agreement averts government shutdown 2011

"It is a very good Georgian house," said Ed Chappell, director of architectural research at Colonial Williamsburg, who wrote a study of Fairfield in 2009.

Va. couple puts up for sale house where George Washington slept Steve Hendrix 2011

"It is a very good Georgian house," said Ed Chappell, director of architectural research at Colonial Williamsburg, who wrote a study of Fairfield in 2009.

Va. couple puts up for sale house where George Washington slept Steve Hendrix 2011

But it was the construction of Colonial Williamsburg from the 1920s to the 1930s that set standards of taste and acceptability by establishing a "cut-off date," demolishing many buildings of valid later styles, and authorizing "authentic reproductions," an obvious oxymoron that has become a useful euphemism for an approved commercial copy, sidestepping authenticity to fit perfectly into the American state of mind.

Symbols of Our Nation Ada Louise Huxtable 2011

The dates for the conference, titled “Storm on the Horizon: Slavery, Disunion and the Roots of the Civil War,” are Feb. 16 in Washington, at the National Museum of American History; Feb. 18-19 in Colonial Williamsburg; and Aug. 21-27 in Chautauqua, NY.

One conference, three locations Linda Wheeler 2011

This approach has been applied in other cradles of history -- notably, in the restored surroundings of Colonial Williamsburg.

Reenactors turn history into theater across D.C. area 2010