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FOREWORD THE VALUE of history lies in the perspective it gives us
as we take up the problems of the present. Lawrence Koc. her and
Howard Dearstyne, by making us see here the intimate daily family
life of eighteenth-century Wil liamsburg and the society of which
it was a part, help us even more to see ourselves and our own time
in sharper focus. And insight, above everything else, is the
purpose of Colonial Williamsburg one-time capital of the great and
powerful Virginia colony and the only capi tal of our colonial
period which, after more than a century of sleep, coidd be awakened
and reconstructed in its original form. We hope that millions of
Americans will find time and opportunity to visit Colonial
Williamsburg in order that they may have the experience of stepping
out of the present and losing themselves temporarily in the
significant past. There is no better way for the modern American,
man, woman, or child, to get a real emotional sense of the depth of
his roots and the meaning of our nation's past. Those who read this
book like those whocome to Colonial Williamsburg are urged to
consider it. only a foundation. The building of a free world can FO
R K W O RD never be finished. We in our time must make our
contribution. Colonial Wil liamsburg lives today to help all of us
to feel strongly our heritage of liberty in order that we may build
a better America and a better world in the twentieth century.
Colonial Williamsburg reminds us that the foundation of modern
America is spiritual a faith which began to lake shape in
Williamsburg and to be ex pressed there by some of the greatest of
our forefathers. Nowhere else in co lonial America was the
democratic faith on which our nation has been built more eloquently
expix\ ssed. I think we cannot: drink too deeply at this spring of
our history. I think the authors in this book have helped you and
me immeasurably to see the past so that we may understand and deal
more effectively with the present. KKNNKTH CHORI. EY Office of I
lie Preside tit dolouial IVilliamsbnrg The bell of Brttton Church
rang out in iy( i6 to announce the repeal of the Stamp Act. Ten
years later, on May 15, 1776* it pealed again to pro claim
Virginia's separation from England, six \ veeks before the
independence of all the colonies was sounded by Philadelphia's
Liberty Bell. CONTENTS FOREWORD v I. THE VIRGINIA PLANTERS' CAPITAL
i II. liUILDINUS AND BUILDERS OE II' ILL/ A A IShURO n III. THE
MANNER OE FURNISHINGS 25 IV. THE ( GARDENS OF U'lLLIAMSliURC, 35 V.
THE RESTORATION OF AN AMERICAN TOWN 43 VI. A J> I/ OTOGRAI>
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