Locked Door

by Kathi Isserman

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Locked Door

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Kathi Isserman

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I took this photo with an iPhone 11 Pro then created a painterly effect. Colonial Williamsburg Virginia is the largest living history museum in the USA. Today, 95 years ago, WAR Goodwin reached out to John D Rockefeller who committed funds to restore CW to a living history museum. Their vision is now firmly established, and everyone can visit this amazing place to learn how America began.

"Twice rector of Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church, it was Goodwin who persuaded philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. to finance the return of Virginia's second colonial capital to its eighteenth-century aspect. This article is an edited transcription of a phonograph recording made in Goodwin’s second-floor Wythe House office July 29, 1930.

'As time goes on the American people and the lovers of liberty all over the world will appreciate even more deeply than they can possibly do at present the far-visioned generosity of Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. in giving to America Williamsburg Restored as an inspiration, and as a witness to events that are memorable in the history of Virginia, of the nation, and of the world. Our country will surely always hold Mr. Rockefeller in grateful remembrance for his generous philanthropy in assuming the responsibility of preserving and restoring this ancient capital. We have all been deeply impressed with the patience and generous consideration of Mr. Rockefeller. It has been a constant joy to be permitted to be associated with him in this work.

In 1926, it was our privilege to point out to him that Williamsburg was the only city celebrated in connection with pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary events that was capable of restoration. It would be impossible to acquire a territory one mile long and a quarter of a mile wide in Boston, with Faneuil Hall as its center; or in New York, with Wall Street and Trinity church as its center; or in Philadelphia with Independence Hall as its center. Whereas, here, in Williamsburg, equally famous, there remained at least seventy colonial buildings in a town surrounded by the untouched and unmarked countryside, presenting an opportunity to create a shrine that would bear witness to the faith and the devotion and the sacrifice of the nation builders.'... From the CW Journal on the 75th anniversary!

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December 7th, 2021

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