We visited Colonial Williamsburg, VA and then drove to Jamestowne, VA the site of the first successful English settlement in America. The Roanoke site that we visited a few days ago was a failure. As detailed in the great National Geographic article last year, Jamestowne was a very tough experience and barely succeeded. The girl on the left inside the dig was the archeaologist who conducted the tour. Way cool to stand inside the actual verifiable fort.
Then we drove to Appomattox, VA for an extremely emotional visit to the site where the Civil War came to an end. General Lee sat at the larger table on the left in the photo and General U.S. Grant sat on the right. It is very hard for me to see some of these Civil War sites because, in many cases, the war pitted kin against kin - they were fighting and killing people they should not have been fighting. Today we stood at the very place where the nation stopped being divided - a reference to Abraham Lincoln's quote that a nation divided could not stand. I was awed to stand at that spot and, at the same time, had a hard time seeing because of the moisture in my eyes. Richard