Another day at Colonial Williamsburg

The highlight of this day was a performance by  Dean who plays glass instruments--yes, I said GLASS instruments.  The first is a glass armmonica, which instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin.  It is a series of fine tuned glass bowls attached to a rod, which spins.  The player has his fingers wet with water sliding them along the spinning glass bowls to make such lovely music.  He also demonstrated a glass violin and glass bells.  The newest instrument almost looked like a piano keyboard, which was made out of glass rods.  Again, it is played by sliding his wet fingertips over the glass rods to make the music.

As it got dark out, I took the Civil War walking tour.  This tour had been cancelled a few years ago, and I was so glad to see it renewed.  On this tour you hear about what happened in 1862 when Union forces won a battle in Williamsburg and then held the area until the end of the war.  As you tour, you get to hear the stories of a young Confederate soldier and the fear that he feels about the battle, an African female who talks about how we should not be out after curfew, and a Union officer who informs the crowd about how martial law is now being enforced because of the townspeople's disrespectfulness to the Union forces occupying their town.  This tour gives you a completely different view of the history of Williamsburg.