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Williamsburg Wakes Up to Wokeness
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 @ 9:06 AM
Editor s Note: A version of this column by Robert Knight originally ran in The Washington Times, and it also ran at OneNewsNow.com. American Family Association engages in Spiritual Heritage Tours that visit Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown to help .capture the deep, rich, Christian heritage of our country and the people who founded it.
Colonial Williamsburg is a world apart.
Visitors can leave behind 21st Century culture and politics and immerse themselves in a 301-acre living history area that recreates pre-Revolutionary America.
Horses pulling wagons clip-clop down Duke of Gloucester Street, with drivers clad in colonial garb and tri-cornered hats. Shopkeepers, blacksmiths, and members of the House of Burgesses converse in words befitting an English colony in the late 18th Century.
Williamsburg wakes up to wokeness
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 |
Robert Knight - Guest Columnist Knight
Like the rest of previously locked-down Virginia, Colonial Williamsburg is getting back on its feet and seeing an uptick in visitors. But the historic district should avoid becoming a colony of Black Lives Matter if they want families to come back. Otherwise, it may become a case of get woke, go broke.
Colonial Williamsburg is a world apart.
Visitors can leave behind 21st Century culture and politics and immerse themselves in a 301-acre living history area that recreates pre-Revolutionary America.
Horses pulling wagons clip-clop down Duke of Gloucester Street, with drivers clad in colonial garb and tri-cornered hats. Shopkeepers, blacksmiths, and members of the House of Burgesses converse in words befitting an English colony in the late 18th Century.