Less than two weeks to go of #TreeSquare now, but it is still absolutely fine to join in the fun. You could square daily for the remainder of the month or just pop in occasionally between now and the 31st with your trees. The only absolute rule for joining in with Squares is that your photograph must be square in shape! Although I’d love it if you had a moment to also explore the galleries – here’s part one of the first and here’s part two.
Becky B
In this month’s square’s challenge I will start at home, which is Prescott, AZ and spiral farther and farther from home to share different tree from my travels. Since FOTD accepts trees, all of these posts will work for both Becky B’s #TreeSquares and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
Trees in Colonial Williamsburg
One of the first things that all of us from California noticed when we went to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia was that it was thick with trees. They made idea frames for our photos. Other than the taverns, the Capitol Building pictured above was at the heart of everything that happened in 1776. All of the leaders of both sides of the revolution argument met here.
Participants were each assigned a role to argue in front of the “legislature.” Acting the part of a small farmer, I easily won the debate about not joining in the revolution based on the convictions printed up for me to act out. The passion for freedom did not ring in the hearts of the actors in 2009 as it did in 1776.
When I attended the week-long teacher training in Colonial Williamsburg, each of us was assigned a character to BE during the week. Clementina was a female publisher who took over the weekly newspaper after the death of her husband.
Clementina published Thomas Jefferson’s First Declaration, and sent his document all over the colonies and Europe. That document became the gateway to Jefferson’s writing fame and was designed to win people’s hearts to the Revolutionary cause.
Here are other posts I wrote about my experiences there.
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Writer’s Quote’s Wednesdays Check out my page to learn more about it. It’s easy to play along either as a writing or photo challenge.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
I’ve not revisited Williamsburg in many years Marsha, but your post is a fond reminder of the wonderful history on display there. And yes, their trees are glorious! You are one busy blogger with all of the challenges you’re participating in and/or hosting this month! Good for you, terrific job!
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Thanks, Tina. I couldn’t do it if not for Cee. I don’t know how she does it. We modeled our PPAC after the way you all run the Lens Artists by taking turns. Having Cee involved gives it an instant shot in the arm, so it has taken off on the run, which is very exciting. Things will slow down after Becky’s TreeSquares run their course. I haven’t had as much time to visit all the participants of all the challenges like I like to do. 🙂
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She is definitely amazing!
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Yes, she is. 🙂
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oh this sounds a fabulous place, what fun. And loving all the trees – I wonder how many trees remained around the town in the 18th century. So many were cleared at the time
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I think most were cleared many years before that. They arrived in Jamestown in 1617, I think, and cleared and built hastily for a year trying to find a way to grow crops and survive in the new land. Most of the original settlers died. The next bunch moved inland to Williamsburg where there weren’t so many insects. That’s when they began to prosper from growing tobacco.
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ahha! They were a brave and perhaps foolish lot the first ones who arrived
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Some of them were indentured servants without a lot of possibilities. I believe that others were royal, in hopes for new opportunities to lead. They fared the worst because they didn’t know how to do much.
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We enjoyed our visit to Colonial Williamsburg many years ago. The history is so well presented and the actors who play the various inhabitants really bring it to life. It must have been an honour to ‘be’ Clementina for a week, playing such a significant role in your history 🙂 I’m off to follow your link and read more about her!
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And I just read that earlier post about her but can’t comments as it’s too old, so I’ll do so here. I was sad to read that she only outlived her husband by a year and never saw the end of the Revolution.
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I know. She did so much for the cause. She was a fascinating person to research and play act the entire week. We had to let our characters color how we saw the week’s events unfolding and talk about it during dinner and lunch. It was education on steroids. 🙂
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Thanks again, Sarah. Sorry the comments are turned off. I do that because otherwise I get a lot of spam on my old posts.
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Yes, of course – I understood the reason but didn’t want not to leave feedback as I found it such a fascinating read!
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You are so kind, Sarah. I am honored because you write history so well.
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we enjoyed out visit to Colonial Williamsburg many years ago. Just think if you had been a farmer 250 yers ago; with your powers of persuasion you might have changed the course of history! 🙂
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LOL, I might have. We have such good lifestyles in spite of taxes that it’s a hard sell to get people today to even think about throwing over the government. We might complain about taxes, even move from one state to another, but we are complacent because we have good lives. They might have been a tad better educated in politics than our general public is today, too. I probably would have been a rebel. 🙂
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I agree; we are lucky to live in the U.S.A….
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There, now you can join my US Chamber of Commerce. 🙂
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happy to join!
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Thank you, Marsha for this wonderful tour of this historical place! Great images.
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Thanks, Amy. There wasn’t much information in the tour, though. I would make a horrible tour guide in real life. My mind goes blank. I’d have to memorize my schpeel.
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It sounds like you had a fun time there.
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I wish you could have gone. That was like Ballarat on steroids for teachers. We went full speed ahead from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm learning all the time.
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