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The Taste Tradition

Published July 18, 2014

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Event dates and times:August 29, August 30 and August 31, 2014 5:30 PM Friday: 5:30p-11p Saturday: 9:30a-9:30p Sunday: 9a-2p

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The Taste Tradition, Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual culinary weekend, returns August 29-31 for a celebration of food, drinks and Virginia’s rich culinary heritage, led by Colonial Williamsburg’s executive chefs Anthony Frank, Rhys Lewis and Travis Brust and pastry chef Rodney Diehl, along with local and Southern food and spirits experts.

The three-day event will be filled with more than 25 culinary events, spanning exclusive tastings and seminars, epicurean lectures, festive dinners and garden-to-guest experiences, showcasing the flavorful cuisine emerging from the region today.

Guests can truly immerse in the weekend with The Taste Tradition Hotel Package, which includes nightly accommodations at a Colonial Williamsburg hotel, tickets to Champagne & Oysters and The Cult of Bourbon, and length-of-stay passes to Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolutionary City and the Art Museums

of Colonial Williamsburg. This offer starts at $145 per person, per night, and is valid for stays between August 29 and August 31, 2014.

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The Taste Tradition The Taste Tradition, Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual culinary weekend, returns August 29-31 for a celebration of food, drinks and Virginia’s rich culinary heritage, led by Colonial Williamsburg’s executive chefs Anthony Frank, Rhys Lewis and Travis Brust and pastry chef Rodney Diehl, along with local and Southern food and spirits experts. The three-day event will be filled with more than 25 culinary events, spanning exclusive tastings and seminars, epicurean lectures, festive dinners and

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The Taste Tradition, Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual culinary weekend, returns August 29-31 for a

celebration of food, drinks and Virginia’s rich culinary heritage, led by Colonial Williamsburg’s executive chefs Anthony Frank, Rhys Lewis and Travis Brust and pastry chef Rodney Diehl, along with local and

Southern food and spirits experts.

The three-day event will be filled with more than 25 culinary events, spanning exclusive tastings and seminars, epicurean lectures, festive dinners and garden-to-guest experiences, showcasing the flavorful cuisine emerging from the region today.

Guests can truly immerse in the weekend with The Taste Tradition Hotel Package, which includes nightly accommodations at a Colonial Williamsburg hotel, tickets to Champagne & Oysters and The Cult of Bourbon, and length-of-stay passes to Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolutionary City and the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. This offer starts at $145 per person, per night, and is valid for stays between August 29 and August 31, 2014.

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Details The Taste Tradition, Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual culinary weekend, returns August 29-31 for a celebration of food, drinks and Virginia’s rich culinary heritage, led by Colonial Williamsburg’s executive chefs Anthony Frank, Rhys Lewis and Travis Brust and pastry chef Rodney Diehl, along with local and Southern food and spirits experts. The three-day event will be filled with more than 25 culinary events, spanning exclusive tastings and seminars, epicurean lectures, festive dinners and garden-to-guest experiences, showcasing the flavorful cuisine emerging from the region today. Guests can truly immerse in the weekend with The Taste Tradition Hotel Package, which includes nightly accommodations at a Colonial Williamsburg hotel, tickets to Champagne & Oysters and The Cult of Bourbon, and length-of-stay passes to Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolutionary City and the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. This offer starts at $145 per person, per night, and is valid for stays between August 29 and August 31, 2014. Cost Offers start at $145 per person, per night Contributed Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/special-events/taste-tradition/

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The Taste Tradition Visit website Repeats every day until Sunday, August 31, 2014, all day. Details The Taste Tradition, Colonial Williamsburg’s second annual culinary weekend, returns August 29-31 for a celebration of food, drinks and Virginia’s rich culinary heritage, led by Colonial Williamsburg’s executive chefs Anthony Frank, Rhys Lewis and Travis Brust and pastry chef Rodney Diehl, along with local and Southern food and spirits experts. The three-day event will be filled with more than 25 culinary events, spanning exclusive tastings and seminars, epicurean lectures, festive dinners and garden-to-guest experiences, showcasing the flavorful cuisine emerging from the region today. Cost Offers start at $145 per person, per night Contributed21 And Older Website: www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/special-events/taste-tradition

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Wren dig reveals lost colonial building By Mark St. John Erickson

July 28, 2014

WILLIAMSBURG — Even in a town that archaeologists have probed countless times since 1930, few places have been dug over as many times as the landmark compound that makes up the historic colonial campus at the College of William and Mary. But that doesn't mean the triangle of property that surrounds the late-1600s Sir Christopher Wren Building — which ranks as the nation's oldest college structure — has given up all its secrets. Spurred by a small but unexpectedly substantial brick feature unearthed by college archaeologists in 2011, a Colonial Williamsburg team has uncovered surprise after surprise since mid-May, when they begin exposing the increasingly large footprint of a previously unknown structure.

Hidden as much as 2 feet below the surface of the Wren's south yard, the main part of the early-1700s building measures 20-by-18-feet in size, while a smaller addition on its south wall checks in at about 20-by-12 feet.

Evidence of a central fire pit may help identify the structure as the college's busy 18th-century brew house, while an unusually large trash deposit located outside its east wall may hold clues to life inside the Wren Building before it was gutted by a fierce 1705 fire. "With as much archaeological work as we've done in the College Yard over the years, it's astonishing to find something like this — and to find so much of it still intact," says Louise Kale, who is retiring after nearly two decades as director of the college's historic campus.

"I've seen at least a dozen digs here during my time here — and this is the most important. It's a real gold mine."

Secrets in the dirt Funded by a private donor, the excavation was originally slated to end by mid-summer, Kale said.

But because of the unexpected scale and historical potential of the structure that has emerged, it will continue for at least several weeks as the archaeologists continue their painstaking, layer-by-layer investigation.

Among the obstacles they encountered as they mapped out the site was a thick, 5-foot-wide concrete sidewalk slab, of which about 125 linear feet had to be sawed out and removed by a contractor before the full extent of the find could be exposed, CW archaeologist Andy Edwards said.

The archaeologists also had to work their way through a deep deposit of 20th-century fill and debris, much of it laid down during the Rockefeller-financed restoration of the Wren Building and surrounding grounds completed in 1931.

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Bounded on the north by a large underground electrical substation — and on the west by the remains of late 1600s brick kiln discovered in the 1930s — the relatively small, hemmed-in target area didn't hold out much promise except for the mysterious masonry corner found in 2011, Edwards adds.

But as the surprised archaeologists exposed more and more of the foundation walls, the structure grew until it filled a roughly 30-by-20-foot swath of the Wren's south yard. "I don't know how they missed it," Edwards said, noting the proximity of the trenches dug across the space during the 1930s excavations.

"It's a fairly substantial building, and it's a fairly old building — probably dating to the first quarter of the 18th century — that was probably used for at least 50 years. But we had no idea it was here." Brew house? Completely absent from the oft-cited "Frenchman's Map" of 1782 — a military survey long regarded as one of the most detailed guides to the colonial town — the building seems to have disappeared sometime just before or during the Revolution, CW architectural historian Edward Chappell says.

It is likely to have been erected sometime during the rebuilding campaign that took place after 1705, when the college moved many of its cooking and brewing activities from their original location in the basement of the Great Hall after the Wren Building was gutted by a fire.

College records from 1716 detail an order sent to the school's London agents for the purchase of "Standing furniture for the College Kitchen Brewhouse, and Laundry."

Other records from 1755 note the purchase of hops from slaves who — after working in the school's Nottoway River fields all day — still found time to till their own cash crops in small gardens.

The discovery of a fire pit instead of a masonry hearth also squares with the general layout and practices of colonial brew houses, some of which used little more than a hole in the roof or louvered vents to exhaust the heat, steam and gases emitted by the fires and their giant bubbling kettles.

"Brewing beer was very common in the colonial period. Everybody had a brew house," Edwards said, describing a beverage that many colonists routinely consumed morning, noon and night.

"It was safer to drink than the water."

Equally if not more promising as a window into the college's colonial life is the large trash deposit unearthed adjacent to the east wall of the structure.

Visibly peppered with oyster shells, ceramics and other artifacts, the 12-foot-wide heap has only been explored through the scatters of debris kicked up by a utility trench that glanced against its edge during the 1930s.

But already the finds include numerous lead blobs that both Edwards and Chappell believe may be linked to the Wren's original roof, which was destroyed by the great 1705 fire.

"Some digs are very quick. You go in and you get out. And some digs you have the luxury of following all the leads," Kale said.

"That's what we're doing here because we don't want to leave anything undone. It's a very rich excavation."

Erickson can be reached at 757-247-4783. Find more Hampton Roads history stories at dailypress.com/history and Facebook.com/hrhistory.

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Rockefeller, Zinni elected as CW trustees

By WYDaily Staff

July 28, 2014

(L-R): Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV. and Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (Submitted)

Two new members are joining the board of trustees for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Colonial Williamsburg has elected U.S. Sen. John (Jay) D. Rockefeller IV and retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Anthony C. Zinni to serve on the board.

Zinni’s appointment is effective immediately, while Rockefeller will begin his service in January after his retirement from the U.S. Senate after five terms in office.

“We are delighted and honored that Sen. Rockefeller will bring his 50 years of public service and national leadership to the board of trustees, continuing the work of the Foundation begun by his grandfather,” said Colin G. Campbell, president and CEO of Colonial Williamsburg, in a news release. “Gen. Zinni brings to the board a lifetime of experience and leadership in public service, the military, diplomacy, business, and academia.”

A Harvard graduate, Rockefeller served two terms as governor of West Virginia before being elected to the U.S. Senate. There he chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the Health Care Subcommittee on Finance, and is also a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Rockefeller is a director or member of numerous policy and cultural organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society and the Washington Bach Consort.

He previously served as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and is married to Sharon P. Rockefeller, who served as a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation from 2001 through 2013.

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Zinni, who retired from the Marine Corps in 2000, is a public speaker on defense, national security, foreign policy, strategic planning and business development. He has served as U.S. Department of State special envoy to the Middle East and in support of peace efforts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Sudan.

Honored with Purple Hearts, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Navy Commendation Medal, Zinni’s military career includes service as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command, commanding general of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, deputy operations officer of the U.S. European Command and infantry battalion advisor during the Vietnam War.

Zinni is also a senior adviser of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and serves on numerous corporate, national policy institute and military association boards.

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Chowning’s Tavern Beer Garden

By Emily Ridjaneck

July 26, 2014

Conveniently located in the center of town, this 18th-century alehouse is anything but ordinary. Enjoy a menu of colonial-inspired favorites and specialty beer. Take in lively period entertainment inside, or dine outside under the grapevine arbor where you can enjoy a full-service bar, shareable plates, and kid-friendly offerings. You can also join in nightly for Gambols, featuring 18th-century games, music, and sing-a-longs, starting at 9 p.m.

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