{"id":16287,"date":"2012-12-15T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16287"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:37:55","slug":"colonial-williamsburg-part-five-first-impressions-of-downtown-the-milliner-and-the-coffeehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/colonial-williamsburg-part-five-first-impressions-of-downtown-the-milliner-and-the-coffeehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Williamsburg, Part Five: First Impressions of Downtown, the Milliner, and the Coffeehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Peyton Randolph house, I headed to the main street of Colonial Williamsburg and started to visit the buildings with little flags in front of them. I was feeling pretty peckish by this point, but there were long lines to get into the taverns for lunch, service was apparently slow, and meals were expensive. I decided to pop into the bakery for snacks instead of wasting precious time getting lunch since we were already well into the afternoon.<\/p>\n

It was during this stretch of the day that I had my second favourite moment, a visit of the Charlton coffeehouse. Coffeehouses were where men of all but the lowest social classes gathered to chat about manly topics, drink hot beverages, and even rent out dining rooms for dinner parties.<\/p>\n\n\t\t