On April 19, 1775, embattled farmers of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay fired the shots heard ’round the world at Lexington. Two days later, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, had the gunpowder removed from the Public Magazine in Williamsburg, leaving the colonists defenseless. As Virginia’s delegates prepare to travel to Philadelphia for the Continental Congress, Mann Page rides to the Raleigh Tavern and warns that Governor Dunmore plans to stop them, in this Revolutionary City skit.
For two decades, I worked at political jobs. Then my parents got sick, and I went home to help care for them, and they died, fourteen weeks apart, in their late 60s. And I decided that life is too dear, and too uncertain, to fritter away in political offices. I fought back the sorrow with travel, and started this blog. I believe that passions are more fun when you share them with others, and my hope is to share my passions for travel and culture with you. Welcome! Read more …