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Hawkeye_Joe
Colonial Militia

USA

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July 31 2003

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Posted - October 16 2003 : 2:51:00 PM

I was not sure where to post this one but I hope that everyone takes heed to it and maybe something can be done...

To those of you who have been to Colonial Williamsburg and know what a treasure it is, this is a crime in the making...

This was passed to me so I have to put a disclaimer on it after my last alarm message I DIDN'T WRITE THIS.

RENOVATIONS AND CHANGES AT COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG

To update the list about the financial crisis at Colonial
Williamsburg - mismanagement seems to be
running rampant. At the
same time that 95 interpreters are scheduled to be laid off at the
end of the year, the administration is going ahead with plans to

1- build and co-sponsor a health evaluation clinic adjacent to the
historic area for the rich (two day health exam for $3000)
2- knock down the craft house shop building and build a spa
3- knock down the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Museum and rebuild it as an
annex to the the
Hennage Museum.
4 - renovate the Lodge lobby to attract the elite.

At any one time only one craft category exhibit building will be
open - such as - if the gunsmith is open, then the blacksmith,
silversmith, etc. will be closed.

Things are getting worse. Less and less emphasis is being given to
living history and attacting families to CW - the focus is going to
be a playground for the rich consisting of spas, golf courses and no

history.

This and further information is available at the Virginia Gazzette
website's archives from the beginning of September to now.

It is time to get out the quill and write more letters, if we want CW
to be what we all have come to enjoy and love.

Robert A <--Originator of this mailing

contact Colin Campbell & Rex Ellis by snail mail at: Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA
23185

HAWK

"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759

The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."

"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."

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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood

USA

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November 27 2002

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Posted - October 16 2003 : 3:57:08 PM

Joe, you must have missed it, but I posted this a couple of weeks ago. Go to the "Historical Sites" forum, click on "Williamsburg." There you will see that we had quite a discussion going, plus I had posted several of the articles from the Virginia Gazette.

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