History Comes Alive

Today was our Jamestown and Yorktown days, but things didn't go as planned. We headed off to Jamestown early and really enjoyed our visit there. So much has been discovered since Keri and I visited and there is a new museum to view the discoveries. Ian took advantage of every tour and display. Afterwards, we decided to take the ferry (Jamestown-Scotland Ferry) across the James and drive down to Surry and Smithfield to see the home of "country ham". We ate lunch at Surrey House Restaurant, a highly recommended local restaurant. The local crab cake sandwich certainly lived up to expectations.

From there, we headed off to find St. Luke's Church, the oldest existing church of English foundation in America and the nation's only surviving Gothic building. One of Keri's ancestors was the rector there in the early 1600s, shortly after it was built. There is a plaque to him in the church. It really was a beautiful place. We have been seeing all kinds of reenactments these last several days, but going in this church made it all come alive. We ended up spending so much time there that we missed Yorktown. Perhaps we will try getting there on our way out of town.

We stopped by the famous Edwards Ham center on our way back through Surry. Edwards ham is a Christmas breakfast tradition for as long as I can remember.