{"id":1394,"date":"2011-08-08T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/jamestown-and-yorktown\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T01:08:00","slug":"jamestown-and-yorktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/jamestown-and-yorktown\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown and Yorktown"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an enjoyable morning drive through the Virginia countryside, we enjoyed two sites in close proximity but significant in very different times. <\/p>\n

My plan on the map was to drive a more northern route to Jamestown, but the GPS suggested the southern route and the ferry crossing. The ferry was certainly better because it gave us a view of the area of Jamestown similar to what the first English settlers in America would have had. Unfortunately, not everyone could see over the railing.<\/p>\n

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A historian played the part of John Rolfe to explain what life was like for the earliest settlers. Luke was asked to play a part.<\/p>\n

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Mark likes guns and big guns. This one seems pointed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

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A statue of Pocahontas served as a good photo op. Since our schedule did not take account of everyone’s nap times, some had to take them during the tour. <\/p>\n

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In the foreground is a model of the original Jamestown fort. Behind the kids are on-going excavations of the same fort.<\/p>\n

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The Visitor’s Center and the marked auto trail at Yorktown made it easy for us to understand just how George Washington laid siege successfully to the British general Cornwallis.<\/p>\n

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After an enjoyable morning drive through the Virginia countryside, we enjoyed two sites in close proximity but significant in very different times. My plan on the map was to drive a more northern route to Jamestown, but the GPS suggested the southern route and the ferry crossing. The ferry was certainly better because it gave\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}