Living museums are the best way to learn history! If you haven't been to one and you are visiting the East Coast, go find one and see for yourself.
The pic below is from Colonial Williamsburg, in the State Capital building and the actor (interpreter) is reenacting the role of a court official. He is guiding visitors through a court scene in colonial life in a moment of time. History shared this way is fascinating and memorable because it is delivered in a real world setting.
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG STATE CAPITOL
Interpreters in live museums often answer questions from guests in the context of the character's life they are portraying, which gives more insights into life in the time period.
We come from the West Coast, which has its own history and stories, but it is hard to find a living museum. For example, California has a rich history to draw from, like the California Missions, or The California Gold Rush of 1849. Thousands of people poured into the hills and valleys in search of their fortune.
What a great living museum experience that would make. There are movies about it, and to be fair, some effort has gone into creating gold rush towns, but not of the caliber of live museums in New England and Colonial Virginia. Maybe in time it will happen, but until then, Denese and I will do our best to document places, people and events in history through our videos for your viewing pleasure.
Here's our last video, which many people have already enjoyed. Take a few minutes and see a living museum for your seIf. If you like the video, please subscribe to our channel to see others we visited. As you watch, you will see my point about the living museum experience.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE SPINNING SKILLS THIS INTERPRETER HAS
Awesome Church Experience
PASTORS STEVEN AND ANTICHELLA FORREST
As we prepare to leave Virginia, we would be remiss if we didn't share our wonderful chance experience.
We were having lunch one weekend after church. (if you are ever in Gloucester, Va, go to FarmaSea Restaurant. you wont be disappointed.)
A couple were sitting next to us and he had a hat that I fell in love with, (If you watch our videos regularly, you will see how much I love hats.)
I asked where he got the hat and we struck up a conversation. In the conversation we said we were on our way back from church and just happened on this restaurant.
It turns out Steven and Antichella (Shelly) are both pastors at a small church in Cobbs Creek, Va. They invited us to join them at their church, Kingdom Covenant Ministries the next week. What a wonderful warm welcome we received from them and the congregation. We visit many churches on our travels and it is a rare treat to meet people who are genuinely interested to spend time with you.
Steven asked us to share our journey as "professional travelers" with the congregation before the service began, which always seems to spark questions from people. As is God's way, the message was exactly what we needed to hear and Pastor Steven delivered the encouraging message with power, humor and grace.
We went to lunch afterwards and shared our faith journeys with each other and now we have new friends to see the next time we are in the area. We encourage you visit this church too, if you are in the area.
In our next blog, we will post a great video as we travel to Virginia and visit the Yorktown and visit the American Revolution Museum as well as other fascinating places we discover. Hey, if you enjoy our travels, click on the link to subscribe to our blog.
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