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June 12, 2014

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12 Instagram Accounts That Will Make You Want To Be A Bold Traveler

June 10, 2014

1. @bryceaviano

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Bryce Aviano mixes shots of his personal life with shots of the open road and hazy, nostalgia-tinged

shots of beautiful locations.

2. @kriswoo

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Kristine Woolf’s nature-centric shots of Southern California make the West Coast seem like the best

coast.

3. @colonialwmsburg

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Colonial Willamsburg’s official Instagram posts amazing shots that are ripped straight from a different

time. You want old school? They got old school.

4. @philipeastman

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Phillip Eastman’s play with color and light will have you hopping the next plane to anywhere.

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5. @fosterhunting

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Foster Huntington’s “man in a traveling van”-style photography captures a retro travel style that makes

you yearn for simpler days and open roads.

6. @zioxla

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Zio’s interesting angles and unique perspective make both wilderness and cityscape seem like grand

adventures.

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7. @bipolaire61

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Bipolaire61 has shots of Antarctica that will blow your mind. Do you like penguins? You do now.

8. @joshterada

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Josh Terada finds unique spots and perspectives on frequently travelled places, which makes his

beautiful account a must-follow.

9. @59nationalparks

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Don and Shelly are on a mission to visit 59 national parks. Their feed is a blend of travel and nature. Do

not follow if you’re an office worker who misses the feel of grass beneath your toes.

10. @_carolyn113

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Carolyn’s hashtag #endlesssummerdownunder collects photographs of her life as a new Australian. It’s a

mix of cool urban shots and beautiful nature and will totally make you forget how expensive flights are

to get there.

11. @alixmcalpine

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Alix mixes hidden Brooklyn gems with shots of her dual homes, Texas and Paris. Follow if you like

whimsical shots of beautiful locales.

12. @visitcaymanislands

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Follow for an almost unbearable amount of clear-blue oceans and bright white beaches.

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Local Museums Offer Free Summer Admission to Military

By WYDaily Staff

June 8, 2014

This summer, more than 2,000 museums nationwide will offer free admission to military personnel and their families as Blue Star Museums. In the Historic Triangle, participating are the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, York County Historical Museum, Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.

Blue Star Museums is a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families — a group that works to raise awareness for the challenges of military family life in civilian communities — and the Department of Defense, as well as the participating museums across the country.

The program offers free admission to active military personnel — including all five branches, National Guard and Reserve, and .S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps — plus up to five family members.

“We are delighted to be part of an arts community that is extending this special invitation to military families,” said Aaron De Groft, CEO and director of the Muscarelle Museum of Art, in a news release. “This provides a way for us to thank military families for their service and sacrifice, as well as provide an opportunity for these families to spend time together.”

Blue Star Museums started Memorial Day and runs through Labor Day on Sept. 1. Some special or limited-time museum exhibits may not be included in this free admission program.

Military members should present either a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or DD Form 1173-1 ID card.

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Fifes and drums of Colonial Williamsburg play his song

By Philip Kennicott The Washington Post June 9, 2014

Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Corps. (Ting-li Wang | Virginian-Pilot file photo)

As a kid, I loved patriotic spectacle: Fourth of July fireworks with Sousa marches blaring in the background, old battlefields with cannons and muskets and re-enactors, traipsing through the houses of the Founding Fathers with tour guides who got misty-eyed at the farsighted wisdom of the Grand Old Men. Today, these things make my skin crawl.

The essence of having a critical relationship to something is to separate simple emotions from more complicated ones, to think more critically about everything society passes on to you as received dogma, and detach oneself from collective opinion, at least long enough to ask: Is it true? Was it really like that? Does this make our lives better, finer, more humane? It isn’t to deny emotion, or fellow feeling, or the antique vestiges of our natural inclination to run happily with the herd. But rather, it requires that we be entirely sure that whatever we think and feel is absolutely particular and honest to ourselves.

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, except of course for those that injure others. I do believe a lot of shame attaches to pleasure, and in the course of my life, a lot of shame has been attached to things, such as blustery patriotic displays that I found pleasurable when I was young. Which is why my guilty pleasure, indulged mainly in the summer when the tourist crowds are thicker and the art schedule in Washington slightly lighter, is a visit to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. It is the sort of the thing that delighted me as a child, and the new, more theatrical, narrative presentation of history the park instituted some years ago - with actors in costume playing out a historically inspired set pieces that move from building to building - would have left me in ecstasies.

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On one level I hate it. “Play your role in the Revolution,” the park’s promotional literature says. “Get caught up in the historical moments taking place all around you.” This is precisely what I will not do. But l like to wander the old, reconstructed main street, with its mix of real and refabricated Colonial buildings, its wide street with horse carriages - in which I will never ride - and feel the presence of the child who would have exhausted himself in delighted exploration of it all. I like to stand at the back of the crowd watching the blacksmith and the other workers in costume explaining the old ways of life, withholding all the questions I would have blurted out as a boy. How does the fire get so hot? Did they really make everything they needed in their own little town? Even the fine metalwork in the fancy houses?

Colonial Williamsburg isn’t fake, and it isn’t a theme park. It is, in fact, a fascinating study in the history of history itself, the way America in the 20th century reconstructed and preserved a vision of its Revolutionary and Colonial era. Its art museum also has a substantial collection, especially for anyone interested in folk art. Its reconstruction of old buildings has become a methodical exercise in archaeological and historical research. I can supply a litany of perfectly respectable reasons to visit, all to mask the real reason: That it is a journey into the past, not the past of America, but my past, and a dangerous one. It is like looking into a box of one’s old childhood toys, long forgotten in the attic, and feeling the visceral tug of old love. It hollows me out every time, especially when I see children who might have been me, and wonder who they will become.

So is this really a pleasure? It is certainly addictive, and I know it’s guilty, because I dread nothing more, while there, than running into someone I know.

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New Colonial Williamsburg tin man has heart Father considered job 40 years ago

By Steve Vaughan June 10, 2014

Colonial Williamsburg Tinsmith (Courtesy of Dave Doody / June 10, 2014)

Colonial Williamsburg Tinsmith

WILLIAMSBURG — The Eisenhart family's expertise in tinsmithing took a roundabout route to Colonial Williamsburg.

More than 40 years after James R. Eisenhart, a tinsmith from Pennsylvania, turned down an opportunity to move to Williamsburg and add his expertise to the blacksmith shop, his son, Steve Eisenhart, has

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decided to become a volunteer tinsmith at the Public Armoury, which replaced the blacksmith operation.

Steve Eisenhart, who now lives in Richmond, spent his working career as a physicist.

"This is my transition from my working career to my volunteer career," he said.

Eisenhart and his family were in Williamsburg this week, so he could get fitted for his colonial costume and also to celebrate his mother, Louise's, 90th birthday.

And they brought a trove of vintage tinsmith tools, some dating to the 17th and 18th century, to donate to Colonial Williamsburg where they will establish the Eisenhart collection.

Erik Goldstein, the curator of mechanical arts and numismatics for Colonial Williamsburg, said the tools are an important addition to Colonial Williamsburg's collection.

Kenneth Schwarz, the foundation's master blacksmith, said Eisenhart's expertise will help the Armoury as well.

"The folks we have now tinsmithing aren't all that familiar with coppersmithing," he said.

Eisenhart is familiar with both, having learned from his father, along with his brothers, from an early age.

The brothers reminisced Friday about falling asleep to the sound of their father's hammer.

The elder Eisenhart was a plumber by trade, but that led to tinsmithing and coppersmithing.

"Back after the war, plumbers were tinsmiths and coppersmiths too. They made their own spouting and other parts that they used," Eisenhart said.

One of the first things the brothers learned to do was make spouting.

"When we were 12 or 13 we could make that by ourselves," one said Friday.

Steve Eisenhart said that his father and mother traveled around the state of Pennsylvania to craft shows with tin work.

"He was an artist," he said.

Their father left many patterns for tin and copper creations.

"I doubt I'll live long enough to make them all," Eisenhart joked.

He said craftsmanship was in the family's bloodline. The first ancestor in America, in 1751, was a wainwright.

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"Back then everybody had to do a little of everything to be self-sufficient," Eisenhart said.

Schwarz said that was particularly true in rural areas.

"In urban areas you might have access to a commercial operation, but in the rural areas people had to learn how to make a lot of things for themselves," he said.

He noted that Thomas Jefferson had one of his slaves at Monticello trained as a tinsmith. He eventually served the area for five or 10 miles around.

"So he had that industry on his property," Schwarz said.

A trip to Williamsburg by James and Louise in 1967 led to an exchange of correspondence about a possible job as a tinsmith here.

Eventually, James decided not to pursue the opportunity.

Steve Eisenhart is pursuing it now, not just in memory of his father, but of his daughter, Jenny, as well.

"She became interested in tinsmithing and coppersmithing, and that was what she wanted to do for her occupation," he said. "I'd always hoped to find an opportunity to some day be in a position to have her as an apprentice, maybe here at Colonial Williamsburg."

However, two years ago Jenny became ill with cancer and passed away.

"So now, I'm doing this for Jenny's memory too," he said.

Schwarz said tinsmiths at the Armoury were responsible for making many everyday items for the troops — mess kits and such. They also made shot canisters.

"The military valued tinware because it was light, strong and long-lasting and cheap," he said.

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