{"id":16190,"date":"2012-12-15T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:34:23","slug":"colonial-williamsburg-part-two-the-governors-palace-and-patrick-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/colonial-williamsburg-part-two-the-governors-palace-and-patrick-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Williamsburg, Part Two: The Governor’s Palace and Patrick Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"

First stop in Colonial Williamsburg is the governor’s palace. A popular activity there is to listen to a speech by one of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson or Patrick Henry. The fellow who plays Jefferson apparently looks like him… because he is a direct descendent of him!<\/p>\n

On the crisp morning of my visit, the talk was by Patrick Henry. Other than his “give me liberty or give me death” speech, I didn’t know much about him. With the talk being 45 minutes, I didn’t expect to stay through the whole thing. The reenactor was so good, that I hung onto every word! I really would suggest not missing this if you go to Williamsburg.<\/p>\n

(As point of reference, by this point, it was 11:30 and I had already been in Colonial Williamsburg two and a half hours!)<\/p>\n

All the open buildings in Colonial Williamsburg have an English flag outside the entrance. The governor’s palace did not. It was just open for private school tours. But we could wander around the grounds.<\/p>\n\n\t\t