Back in Time

Greg:
On Saturday (03/29), we left DC on the way to Raleigh-Durham. On the way there, Shana and I decided to embrace our dorkiness by taking a slight detour to visit Colonial Williamsburg. We rented the audio-tour headsets, therefore making us look even dorkier than the average dork there. We ended up having a blast! Most of the town is gorgeous, with the Royal Governor's Mansion being my personal favorite (and the model for my future home-- see picture). We learned plenty of cool things, the most interesting of which is that one of the last British Governors of Virginia, Lord Dunbar (we think that's what his name is), declared that all slaves who fought with the British against the revolutionaries would be emancipated. Somehow this didn't make it into our American history textbooks, leaving us to believe that Honest Abe was the first to emancipate the slaves. I wonder why?!