Colonial Williamsburg

[lowell holmes]

I just ran across A Roy Underhill book, The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop in my library.
I attended a conference there one year and Roy was there. He was entergetic and entertaning.

The only reason for posting this is to tell you about it.
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=genera&nck=8776711754&gclid=Cj0KCQiApbzhBRDKARIsAIvZue_sLk9AVZIh-PKuH4ogT-GnkwSWklZjPT0Gs1fCYGWyAyha6qPZswAaAgR_EALw_wcB

If you have the opportunity to go, I highly recommend it. It was a memorable experience.

[steven c newman]

Was down that way, back in the summer of 1970....

[Warren Mickley]

Here is a better link to conference materials. Download brochure.

The conference is January 17 to 21.

http://www.cvent.com/events/working-wood-in-the-18th-century-2019/event-summary-9c82ac7ad9e74c29996b606f84909c78.aspx

[Dave Anderson NH]

WW in the 18th Century is a great conference. I only missed the first year and have been to every one since. I'll be there again this year.

[Steve Voigt]

I'm looking forward to seeing Dave, Warren, and anyone else who's coming to the conference.

[Mark Maleski]

I'll be there! I plan to heckle the presenters, though. Sorry Steve!

[Tom M King]

It's funny. When I went to school at William and Mary, I had very little interest in the colonial period, architecture or otherwise. Now, it's what I do for a living, and read everything I can get my hands on about colonial Virginia life. I bought 154 books off ebay alone last year.

There is a very good little book you can get off ebay, for a few dollars with free shipping about the reconstruction of CW. If you have any interest at all in CW, it's a few bucks well spent. copy and paste this in the search window on ebay. It's a very nice small hardback book. I have given a number of them as gifts.

Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital

edited to add: Sorry, I may have bought up most of the cheap copies. I just checked, and there are only three copies at less than 10 bucks.

[Steve Voigt]

I'll be there! I plan to heckle the presenters, though. Sorry Steve!

We know how to handle guys like you. ;)

[george wilson]

They now have cabinet making,with my last old apprentice building spinets in one area of the shop. Added is a joiner's shop as well as the long established out door carpenters using period tools,most of which I guess I made. Saws and planes.

[Matthew Hills]

Yup. My son (3rd grade) got to play one of the spinnets in the shop when we visited last year.

Matt

[James Pallas]

The area is an archive of early American history. There is something to see every few miles. A person could spend a month there and not see much of it. I've been many times, not to the conference, but to Williamsburg and the area. Great place to visit for those that haven't been there. If I was still able to travel I would gladly make another trip.
Jim

[Steven Mikes]

Adding to my list of destinations for a family get-away. Not too far from Raleigh!

[Tom M King]

Steven, Take the ferry on your way. Put Jamestown Ferry, Surry, Va. in your GPS. It will be not only shorter from Raleigh, but more fun. Check the ferry schedule online to plan your departure time.
http://www.virginiadot.org/travel/ferry-jamestown.asp

[Brian Holcombe]

If you guys get a chance, use some of Steve's planes...they are sublime!

[Steven Mikes]

Tom, thank you for the tip! I wouldn't have known otherwise, will definitely go that way rather than looping around through Richmond. My kids love riding ferries too.

By the way I recently visited Old Salem here in NC for the first time, the joiners shop there was marvelous, I didn't want to leave. Is the shop is Williamsburg similar?

[Tom M King]

I hope, when you were in Old Salem, that you had time to visit the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. https://mesda.org/

If not, plan to go back, and have several hours to spend there. They have complete original rooms from different periods.

The shop in Williamsburg is better.

edited to add: When approaching Jamestown on the ferry, look over to where you think the original colony started. Someone on board might be able to tell you. I was riding across there with an Architectural Historian, soon after they had found the original location. He told me that they hadn't ever looked there before, and it had been a long time. I told him that they must not have ever looked from the water. The colonists came by boat. That was the first place I would have looked.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Conference has been excellent so far. Said hello to Warren today and got to meet Steve Voigt. Steve gave an excellent presentation on the plane and workshop practices of the Nicholson/ Cesar Chelar workshop. Thoroughly enjoyable.

[Bob Leistner]

George Wilson is the star of the show at :https://journeymansjournel.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/18th-century-violin-and-harpsichord-making-part-1-george-wilson/ . 3 parts are posted now.

[ken hatch]

If you guys get a chance, use some of Steve's planes...they are sublime!

Brian,

May I add an amen brother.

ken

[Mark Maleski]

So, funny thing...I spent the first couple of days of the conference sitting next to this nice guy, with lots of interesting observations, named Warren. I ran into Warren at the blacksmith's shop during one of the lunch breaks, and there he is asking Ken Schwarz all these insightful questions. Had a nice conversation with him on the stroll back to the conference, and was overall glad to get to know him over the duration of the conference. All along I'm thinking: "where do I know that name...Warren Mickley?" It wasn't until I got back an checked back into SMC that I realized! In my defense, I met 20-30 people at the conference whom I already knew of, or only knew online.