Colonial Garb and Nikes: What It’s Like to Live in the Middle of American History

Living is Williamsburg gives you the best of the modern world while upholding traditional values.

A carriage drives along Duke of Gloucester Street on a spring day in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area. The Capitol can be seen at the end of the street. Darnell Vennie/The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/TNS

By Samuel Long From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I grew up in the modest city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Our “thing” was being the location of the first permanent English settlement and original capital of Virginia. But to me, these were just a part of downtown.