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I’m old enough to remember when the Fourth of July was more than just a weekend holiday, as wonderful as that can be. Way back then, the Fourth was a time of patriotic music (when is the last time you heard a John Philip Sousa march?), and stories of the founding of this nation.
So, in the spirit of the Fourth of July from yesteryear, I thought I would share some pictures taken at Colonial Williamsburg several years ago. We weren’t there on the Fourth of July, but it was still possible to catch the spirit of the ‘Revolutionary City’.
We’ve always enjoyed the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps, as seen in the photo above.
One evening we were able to see a muster of the colonial militia. They certainly didn’t march with the ‘spit and polish’ of British regulars.
Even their firing line left something to be desired.
But I would hate to be in front of them when they fired.
The ‘colonists’ even had a cannon they were able to fire.
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