Dusty & Gay: From Sea to Shining Sea, to Save Public Education
July 24, 2011
Ashland – Williamsburg – Yorktown
As we leave Ashland, Virginia this morning, we are riding north of Richmond to Mechanicsville and through countryside that is dotted with Civil War battle sites now preserved as part of the Richmond National Battlefield Park. Later in the day we reach Jamestown after crossing the Chickahominy River, the river John Smith and friends were navigating when they were captured. They were saved by Pocahontas, at least according to Smith’s version of the story.
Corn fields flourish here now but many of the early Jamestown settlers died of famine establishing this first English colony in America. 18th Century Williamsburg was the political and cultural center of Virginia. It’s
