Didn't live up to the marketing or my memories from 20 years ago. The tradespeople didn't re-enact, they just wore costumes and chatted like any other shop. Somehow the concept of connecting the physical experience to the information has been lost -in the animal talk they 'parked' the oxen then showed laminated pages of sheep and spoke about them at length. The kids were bored of course. Uh, tell about the oxen standing there?!
I didn't find any reasonable way to sample/experience historical food other than multi-course sit down meat dinner, which is not our thing.
The actors were good, but the message of the street theatre got quite heavy handed, lecturing the visitors directly about race.
In the future, I will know better than to visit the South in June. We were flattened by the heat. I hope CW can do more showing, less telling.
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Jul 2024
Thank you, Sarah, for your review of Colonial Williamsburg. Your visits directly support our mission of preservation and education.