Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know who his father is? In the projects, the boy with a father is king. In the wider world, children may go astray and end up being moral relativists, but in their formative years, they adhere to a code of conduct more traditional than the decor at Williamsburg...
...parents despised travel, especially long car rides. But they considered the trip to Williamsburg--only two-and-a-half hours south of our home in Alexandria--a tolerable one. That and Williamsburg's potential educational value always made it the proposed vacation destination...
Eventually, visiting Williamsburg became an annual pilgrimage, a springtime ritual that created and then fed an obsession with all things colonial and Virginian...
...dropped us off on the outskirts of the town and we'd make our way to the mile-long Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg's main thoroughfare. It's closed to all but pedestrian and equestrian traffic. (We were always on foot because my parents never humored us with carriage rides...
...first discovered the quote, and confirmation of its absolute verity, at Colonial Williamsburg...