“It’s moving to a site where it’s going to see more use and maintenance,” Webster said. “She’ll be spinning her sails amost every day. The visitation for it will go way, way up.”
Garland Wood is going to hang up his British-made tools next month, but before he leaves, one of his last official acts will be to demonstrate Tidewater timber framing techniques and give the keynote speech at the 2022 Working Wood in the 18th Century Conference.
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Richard Josey portrays James Burwill, a Colonial-era slave gardener, at the Governor s Palace at Colonial Williamsburg, Va., on March 16, 2001. (Lindy Keast Rodman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
Mary Carter portrays Aggy of Turkey Island on Feb. 27, 2019, left, and Stephen Seals portrays James Armistead Lafayette on Sept 19, 2017, at Colonial Williamsburg, an immersive living-history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Tom Green, left, and Darnell Vennie/Colonial Williamsburg via AP)
Mary Carter portrays Aggy of Turkey Island at Colonial Williamsburg, an immersive living-history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Tom Green/Colonial Williamsburg via AP)
Robert Watson Jr. talks with a fellow history interpreter, Janice Canaday, left, at the Randolph house in Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., on Dec. 15, 2015. Colonial Williamsburg is an immersive living-history museum where costumed interpreters of history reen