williamsburg (va.)

Showcases traditions, crafts, recipes, and customs from throughout three hundred years of American Christmas celebrations, with photographs and descriptions of holiday festivities in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

Presents a list of facts about Colonial Williamsburg, reviewing the history of the town, which served as capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1780, describing some of its historic buildings, and discussing the reconstruction and restoration of the town, begun in 1926. Includes links to related Internet sites.

Text and illustrations describe the Christmas decorations and activities in Williamsburg, the restored eighteenth-century capital of the colony of Virginia.

Explores the archaeological finds of Colonial Williamsburg and provides information about what archaeologists discover, what they do with their artifacts, how they excavate their findings, how they know where to look for them, and what they learn from their discoveries.

It is May 15, 1776, when the colonists of Virginia cast their votes for independence from Britain. Mary Geddy anxiously awaits the results, because freedom will mean her best friend will move back to England, and her father would have to go to war.

Felicity, a young girl living in the American colonies in the 1770s, struggles to hold to her beliefs about independence despite the disagreement of her beloved grandfather and her best friend.

The outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 brings drastic changes to Felicity's life in Williamsburg, affecting both her family and her friendship with Elizabeth.

In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a horse owned by the cruel tanner, Jiggy Nye.