Gadsby's Tavern

[ceebeegee]

Yesterday Mom and I went into Old Town Alexandria and visited Gadsby's Tavern, a recreation of a tavern and inn in 1785 Alexandria. It was too cool. I love visiting historical sites--there's something so...fascinating about being in the same setting as someone from hundreds or thousands of years ago, seeing what they saw, imagining what they heard and smelled. Old Town is really neat that way--the whole area is just so darn colonial, with cobblestoned paths and townhouses, narrow streets, the noise of the river nearby.

Sigh. I wish I could go back in time. There are so many interesting periods I'd love to visit, like colonial America, and ancient Greece and Rome, and Tudor and medieval England.

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[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

In Bamberg, Germany, where I was stationed for two years, there's an old brewery / pub called the Schlenkerla, which dates to at least 1678 (although the building was built as early as 1310; records are somewhat lost). One gets that same sort of feeling there. The benches, chairs, and tables are somewhat uncomfortably small, owing to the fact that people were, on average much smaller back then -- and the furniture is mostly original. It's really quite a treat.

Far too little history of that sort in our relatively youthful country.