Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveller

Starts with "D"  
2. A Favorite
3.  DELIGHTFUL - chosen by Tom

Starts with "D"

We'll take a road trip this round.

DEVIL DOG Road Arizona

I learned my lesson last week so I investigated this sign that I randomly took on one of our road trips to Las Vegas.

And WOW it turned out to be very interesting!

Olive Goddard was born in 1881 in New Orleans. As a young lady, she was taken with the Pentecostal Movement of 1901. They spoke in varies languages, but Goddard never did. A remarkable octogenarian known as “Madam Eve” would speak mumbled drivel for hours while prompt by the Spirit. No one seemed to know what was being said so Goddard decided to attend the Divinity School of Holy Ghost Bible College to try and decode the glossolalia gibberish. She got this idea to record Madam Eve and play the recording backwards. To her surprise, what was said was lucid American English. Her deduction was that the Holy Spirit spoke an inverted language.


In 1921, she bought property in the Arizona desert and started the Palindromic Church of God. Her sermons were transposed and she was skilled enough to understand the words in reverse. This ability steered her towards proclaiming herself a prophet. Only a minority of followers bought into her accusations of being a spiritualist. It wasn’t until 1939 when she was accepted by the Corps of Phenomenal Explorers, that she finally felt understood.


It was her critics who labeled her “Dr. God” and old-school evangelist, Vernon Forge who branded her “Prophetess of Devil Dog Road”. He campaigned against her “so-called” religious beliefs saying it was no more than satanic insinuations. She had a cabin on Devil Dog Road, but only used it as a divine sanctuary.

FAVOURITE

You can take the DINOSAUR Trail in DRUMHELLER Alberta

DELIGHTFUL

DOG Pub Williamsburg Virginia

Déjà Brew
A catchall for leftover beer, coffee, food, motels and whatever catches my fancy!

DOMINION Tavern and DUNN'S (for smoked meat!) Montreal QC

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October 2016 - Williamsburg VA

"Different Drum"

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Bruton Parish Church Williamsburg

October 2016 - Williamsburg VA


Bruton Parish Church

First Anglican church built in 1660
First rector Reverend Rowland Jones
Many patriots belonged to Bruton Parish
Used as hospital during two wars
Rev. W.A. R. Goodwin led 20th-century restoration
Church still owned by and serves its three-centuries-old parish
Parish history dates to Middle Plantation in 1660


Named for Bruton, Somersetshire, England

Among the men of the Revolution who attended Bruton Parish Church were Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe, Patrick Henry, and George Mason. But the building's history, and that of its churchyard, goes back further in time.

Governor Spotswood was provided with a canopied chair on a platform inside the rail opposite the raised pulpit with its overhanging sounding board. Parishioners sat in boxed pews, their walls providing privacy and protection from drafts. In the early years the sexes sat apart.

Dating from 1715, the present structure is the third in a series of Anglican houses of worship that began in 1660. The first, which may or may not have been at or near the 18th-century site, was built, probably of wood, in the Old Fields at Middle Plantation, Williamsburg's name until the 66-year-old community was incorporated in 1699.

In 1677, the vestry ordered that a church be built of brick on land donated by John Page November 14 of that year. Page also donated £200. The contract was let in June 1681 and the building, which stood a few steps northwest of the 1715 church, was complete by November 29, 1683.

On November 21, 1710, the vestry declared its condition ruinous and proposed construction of a third church. The vestry submitted a plan for one large enough to meet only the needs of parish residents and invited the colony's government to finance an enlargement to accommodate its officers and others who came to the capital when the General Assembly sat.


The house approved a £200 grant December 5, 1710, to be financed from the taxes on liquor and slaves.

The Reverend James Blair, president of the College of William and Mary and Virginia's highest-ranking clergyman, approved construction on March 1, 1711. The same day, Governor Alexander Spotswood provided an architectural drawing of a cruciform design 75 feet long and 28 feet wide "in the clear," with two wings 22 feet wide and 19 feet long. Spotswood offered to underwrite 22 feet of the length and provide some or all of the bricks if the vestry would finance 53 feet and the assembly paid for the wings. His proposition was accepted. The contract was let to carpenter James Morris on November 17, 1711, the wings to be raised by John Tyler, builder of the Magazine.

Work began in 1712 with an October 15, 1714, deadline. The December 2, 1715, entry in the vestry book says, "at length new Church is finished, or nearly so." The second church was demolished the same year.

Outside to the graveyard.

Daughter of John Tyler, 10th president of the United States is buried here.

Day 8 - Williamsburg

October 2016 - Williamsburg VA

Day 1 and 2 Toronto - Johnstown PA - Williamsburg VA

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Day 3 Williamsburg

Day 4 Jamestown

Day 5 Berkeley Plantation

Sherwood Forest Charles City

Day 6 Yorktown

Day 7 Williamsburg

Day 8 Williamsburg

Soup to Nuts Weekly Recap

Day 9 Home

Today we plan to complete our tour of Colonial Williamsburg.

Signs of Halloween were everywhere. even the horses were decorated.

Lots of townspeople out strolling on a gorgeous day.

John, photobombing as usual.

Well, some people had to work.

Inspecting everyone??

In the gardens it was all work.

James Anderson, Blacksmith.
During the early years of the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg blacksmith James Anderson expanded his small, commercial site into a Public Armoury. As Public Armourer, Anderson maintained and manufactured many of the weapons, tools, and other equipment used by the American military.

Tinman Steve Delisle creates cups and kettles, and softer sounds the squeak of shears cutting sheet metal, the tap of a hammer, and the muffled thump of a mallet. As Delisle says: “The din of tin is nowhere near as loud as the blacksmith’s trade.”

WM Pitt's shop.

Janea Whitacre, who portrays 18th Century store owner Margaret Hunter, presents the same poised and knowledgeable attitude when she welcomes visitors as if they were customers. “What do you buy?” she asks, offering them the traditional Colonial merchant's greeting. Her line is the perfect icebreaker for 20th Century Americans. Products of a powerful advertising-driven consumer society, they welcome the sales come-on, the invitation to spend and enjoy.

Fashion in Colonial Virginia was vibrant, fickle, fleeting, fun and something of an obsession for the middle and upper classes. It also was part of the Trans-Atlantic trade between Great Britain and her American colonies.

“Keep in mind that fashion changed as fast as the weather in England and hence in Virginia, therefore what style or philosophy was in vogue one year would be forgotten the next,” said Whitacre who oversees the interpretation at the millinery shop. “It is comforting to know that 18th Century people were concerned about the rapidly changing fashion and the amount of time, energy and money lavished on fashion as we are in this century.”

Halloween decorations.

One of my favourites as I knew nothing about wig making in those days.

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Today's shop represents Edward Charlton, who practiced the trade for more than a half century and became one of the most important 18th-century wigmakers in Virginia. Many prominent men in Virginia, such as Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and George Wythe frequented his shop.

The first colony to speak for American independence, Virginia spoke with the unanimous voices of the gentlemen who gathered May 15, 1776, in the tall brick building that dominated the east end of Williamsburg. From what had been England's original New World possession, Virginia instructed its delegation at Philadelphia's Continental Congress to move the question of freedom. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence records the Continental Congress's answer.

The gentlemen at Williamsburg sat in the oldest representative assembly in what was now the world's newest nation. The legislature first met at Williamsburg on April 21, 1704, when the Capitol on Duke of Gloucester Street was still under construction. Literally and figuratively, however, its foundation dated to 1619, when the House of Burgesses first convened at Jamestown.

After fire destroyed (for the third time) the Jamestown Statehouse in 1698, the burgesses decided to move the colony's government to Middle Plantation, soon renamed Williamsburg. On May 18, 1699, they resolved to build the first American structure to which the word "Capitol" was applied.

Henry Cary, a contractor finishing work on the College of William and Mary's Wren Building (the legislature's temporary home) took charge. He raised a two-story H-shaped structure – really two buildings connected by an arcade. Each measured 75 feet by 25 feet; their south ends terminated in semicircular apses penetrated by three large round windows.

Another excellent guide!

The first floor of the west building was for the General Court and the colony's secretary.

Stairs on one side led to the Council Chamber, a lobby, and the Council clerk's office; stairs on the other side led to three committee rooms. A second-floor conference room connected the classically corniced structures, and a six-sided cupola on the ridge of the hipped and dormered roof crowned it all. Though the west wing was completed by July 1703, it took Cary until November 1705 to finish all the work.

The first floor of the east part of the building was for the House of Burgesses and its clerk. Arched windows marched across the facades.


Once a year, a naturalization ceremony is held at the Capitol, during which a new group of immigrants becomes Americans, continuing a process begun in the building nearly 300 years earlier.

And we'll end our trip with a glorious fall photo.