The Virginia Thanksgiving Festival, held at Berkeley Plantation, celebrates the first English Thanksgiving in America. It begins with a parade of horse drawn carriages and fife and drums. Activities include a re-enactment of the First Thanksgiving, musicians, magicians, games, Colonial dancing, Chickahominy Tribal Dancers, corn maze, storytelling, candle dipping, and corn husk doll making. Vendors
Come and sample the competitors' chili and vote for the People's Choice. Additional chili may be purchased, if available. For more information: www.visitwilliamsburg.com/events/watermens-museum-chili-cook-0
Join the York County WWI & WWII Commemoration Committee and Yorktown churches to participate in a national bell-ringing ceremony on the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. The WWI armistice between the Allies and Germany took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. On this day we will
This Thanksgiving holiday, explore foodways of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia during “Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia,” a three-day event beginning on Thanksgiving Day. At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia's English colonists and Powhatan Indians. At the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, learn about typical
This Thanksgiving holiday, explore foodways of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia during “Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia,” a three-day event beginning on Thanksgiving Day. At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia's English colonists and Powhatan Indians. At the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, learn about typical
This Thanksgiving holiday, explore foodways of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia during “Foods & Feasts of Colonial Virginia,” a three-day event beginning on Thanksgiving Day. At Jamestown Settlement, learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared on land and at sea by Virginia's English colonists and Powhatan Indians. At the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, learn about typical
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