Posted on 08/22/2017 10:34:43 AM PDT by C19fan
One of the country’s most well-known tributes to the Revolutionary era is on the brink of financial ruin. Mitchell Reiss, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s president and CEO, released an open letter at the end of June revealing that Colonial Williamsburg, which markets itself as “the world’s largest living history museum,” is in dire financial straits.
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In California the majority of schoolkids are now immigrants or the children of them. The 3rd world has zero interest in American history, other than to denounce it as racist and colonialist.
This is simply another step towards Full Frontal Communism in America.
Even when out of power, those b@stards STILL make nefarious, ‘progress’ while our GOPe and RINOs do NOTHING to stop this march over the cliff!
Complicit. 99.999% of them.
We used to go to Williamsburg Village every few years. Ones History is everything old and new.
Schools don’t teach THAT history unless they can focus on contributions in colonial America to the GLBSMDQT community.
And with 10s of millions of illegal immigrants with no interest in ‘that stuff’ and many more citizens with little regard for this nation, foundations to preserve history will wither on the vine (or be co/opted by Disney historical parks or hijacked by thise with antAmerican grudges).
We enjoyed our visit to Williamsburg several years ago. I recall that it was kind of expensive.
You can thank the general dumbing down of the American education system. Years ago someone I can’t remember who, said that if our education system had been forced upon by some foreign invader, there would be armed resistance.
The destruction of the education system, and the generalized war on American history all serves the interests of the democrats.
Ethnically cleansing America, one statue at a time.
We need to teach history, but the old memorization of names and dates won’t work anymore. Tell the story of history, and more people will get interested.
This is a characteristic of a country that really has no history or culture to speak of. That's largely a function of our relatively "young" age as a nation, as well as a lack of common culture that we've had since our inception.
Sadly, studying American History was been reduced to just studying a bunch of “Dead, White Guys” in the minds of students.
Or as I call it, the “Howard Zinnation” of American History.
Statues’ Lives Matter.
It’s a shame. A damn shame. What a fantastic, awesome, place.
Frankly, having visited Colonial Williamsburg earlier this year, I am not surprised.
A few things:
The Williamsburg staff is very Liberal. The “history” talks in the governors mansion, and in the building where the colonial legislature met, made up many comparisons of the “autocrats” (the British crown appointed governors of colonial Virginia) to Donald Trump - every chance they could. Of course they did not use his name, they just used phrases like “somewhat like our current leader”.
You don’t get more revenue by overpricing what you sell. Everything in the gift shops in and as part of Colonial Williamsburg were outrageously high. Just because they helped “support Colonial Williamsburg” did not make the goods more attractive.
I am assuming they have some debts they are paying off, given the amount of development of the Colonial Williamsburg visitor center, and the Colonial town itself, compared to what I saw there some years ago.
I would like to see Hillsdale College or George Mason University bid to take over and run Colonial Williamsburg. Either one would correct the revisionist history being preached there now, even in short videos on display there. I am sure they would also hire better business management to get Colonial Williamsburg operations, spending and marketing on a more sound footing.
Colonial Williamsburg is tourist trap. Was not impressed.
I love history but have little interest in setting foot in a museum. Though I visit actual historic sites if I am in the neighborhood.
IMO, Jamestown, Monticello, James river plantation manor homes, Fort McHenry in Baltimore, some sites in Richmond are well worth it.
Thank God my dad was a history fan - we got to spend the night in Colonial Williamsburg in 1973. That was something else!
More recent generations don’t even know what history is. They were never exposed to such a concept in school.Americans will be easy to rule once the Total State is imposes as would have happened had the Democrats won the last Election. People who do not know any history have no idea what works in a society and an economy and what does not. They easily accept whatever their “superiors” tell them.Where there is no acquaintance with history there is no concept of Truth or of Human Nature. That is knowledge of History has been withheld from public school students for half a century. As the older generations die out the imposition of absolute conformity and the conversion of the population to mechanical parts of the State machine becomes easier and then inevitable.
We’re just there a year ago. It was wonderful!
Perhaps they need to lower their prices. I haven’t been to Williamsburg but I’m a fan of others in New England and the admission fees are expensive.
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