Just a heads up for those interested in living history, 19-20 March the Jamestown Settlement (near Williamsburg) will be hosting an MTA event (Military Through the Ages)...maybe I'll see a few of you there...hey

Some of my absolute best Scouting memories (as an adult, alas), are from the Jamestown/Williamsburg/Yorktown area. We've been to re-enactments at the battlefield in Yorktown, which is still virtually unspoiled from how it was 225 years ago, hiked all 26 miles of the Colonial Parkway between Yorktown and Jamestown, and my kids have gone on both school field trips and Scout outings to Jamestown.

 

We love that area, are Heritage District/Colonial Virginia Council alumni, and if Mrs. KS gets her way, that's where we're putting down roots when I retire from the Air Force...

 

KS

 

Well, if you do, let me know so that I can drag you kicking and screaming to my favorite deli (across the street from William and Mary) for a very cold root beer to toast that retirement, hey...

Reading the history in books is one thing - standing on the Yorktown redoubts, walking Duke of Gloucester street, and seeing the same thing from Jamestown the original settlers saw (okay, the nuke plant wasn't there then) is another thing altogether.

 

I usually hesitate to mention what an absolutely fabulous town Williamsburg is; I don't want it to get too crowded or expensive before we get there! No place better for a college football game than at W&M in October, too. There's one home game every season they let Scouts in if they're wearing their uniforms -- what a day. Man, I'm homesick...

 

KS