In 18th-century Williamsburg, families didn’t decorate for the holidays with shiny tinsel, sparkling bows, Christmas trees or Santa Claus figurines. Instead, women gathered materials from their yards, ...
WILLIAMSBURG — A hundred years ago, the man who many would call the “Father of Colonial Williamsburg” arrived in town. It wasn’t John D. Rockefeller Jr., the wealthy New York financier who famously ...
WILLIAMSBURG — In colonial times, Santa figurines, Christmas trees, tinsel strands and poinsettia plants played no part in holiday decorations. So, as members of Green Spring Garden Club plan their ...