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WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

Historic Preservation: Seasonal Cleaning At Jamestown and Yorktown

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Itinerary for Mar 10 — Mar 15, 2013

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Type: Hotel

 Description: The Clarion Hotel Historic District features 143 well-appointed guest rooms. On-site recreational offerings include a fitness center, an indoor heated pool with whirlpool and a game room. The hotel also offers great food and entertainment at the Bourbon Street Restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Walking distance to Colonial Williamsburg and two miles to Busch Gardens.

Contact info:
351 York Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
phone: 757-229-4100
web: www.clarionwilliamsburg.com

Room amenities: Room Amenities: Free high speed Internet access in all guest rooms and public spaces; dual-line speaker telephone; iron/ironing board; in-room movies; coffee maker; hair dryer; in room safes at no additional charge

Facility amenities: Facilities: 24-Hour Front Desk, business center, guest laundromat, dry cleaning service, fitness facility, game room, lounge, indoor whirlpool and indoor pool.

Smoking policy: No
Smoking policies vary by facility. During all group events and activities, smoking is prohibited.

Elevator: Yes

Additional nights before: $69p+ ($89+ sp. event wknds)
Make arrangements directly with the hotel. Limited rooms available at the discounted Road Scholar rate. Rate not available if hotel is sold out. Reservations require credit card guarantee. Cancellation must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival to avoid charge.

Check in time: 4:00 PM

Day One: Sunday, March 10 - Arrival and Registration/Road Scholar Introductions 
Afternoon: Arrival. Check-In. Welcome. Class: "Introduction to the Seventeenth Century". In anticipation of the work you will be doing to help interpret the past, develop an understanding of the earliest colonial English roots in America along with events in the greater world that affected the lives of the first colonists.

Dinner: Dinner

Evening: Road Scholar Introductions. Program Overview: "Introduction to Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and Jamestown Settlement" Learn about the organization that you will be assisting for the next five days and the living museum that it operates near the site of the original Jamestown Fort.

Lodging: Clarion Hotel Historic District

Meals Included: Dinner
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Type: Hotel

 Description: The Clarion Hotel Historic District features 143 well-appointed guest rooms. On-site recreational offerings include a fitness center, an indoor heated pool with whirlpool and a game room. The hotel also offers great food and entertainment at the Bourbon Street Restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Walking distance to Colonial Williamsburg and two miles to Busch Gardens.

Contact info:
351 York Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
phone: 757-229-4100
web: www.clarionwilliamsburg.com

Room amenities: Room Amenities: Free high speed Internet access in all guest rooms and public spaces; dual-line speaker telephone; iron/ironing board; in-room movies; coffee maker; hair dryer; in room safes at no additional charge

Facility amenities: Facilities: 24-Hour Front Desk, business center, guest laundromat, dry cleaning service, fitness facility, game room, lounge, indoor whirlpool and indoor pool.

Smoking policy: No
Smoking policies vary by facility. During all group events and activities, smoking is prohibited.

Elevator: Yes

Additional nights before: $69p+ ($89+ sp. event wknds)
Make arrangements directly with the hotel. Limited rooms available at the discounted Road Scholar rate. Rate not available if hotel is sold out. Reservations require credit card guarantee. Cancellation must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival to avoid charge.

Check in time: 4:00 PM

Day Two: Monday, March 11 - Tour of Jamestown Settlement and Service Work/Service Work Continues 
Note: A variety of service activities are offered on this day and each succeeding day so that participants can match their physical comfort levels to different tasks. The opportunity is provided to rotate among activities, but those preferring less strenuous jobs will have plenty from which to choose.

Breakfast: Breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Field Trip: "Jamestown Settlement" Before beginning your service work, enjoy a tour of the site where you will be working. Explore the reconstructed venues, including a Powhatan Indian village, the fort with its domestic, religious, and military buildings, and replicas of the three ships that brought the first English settlers to Jamestown. Service Work: Begin one of the various activities that you will be working on over the next two days. Jobs may include landscaping, preparing reed mats for the Indian dwellings, working on costumes for the interpreters and much more. You will have the opportunity to rotate among the activities and concentrate on those you most enjoy.

Lunch: Boxed Lunch at the Settlement

Afternoon: Class: "Rule of Law" Explore the rules and regulations that governed the Jamestown Colony from the earliest directives sent over by the Virginia Company through the beginnings of representative government in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Service Work: Continue with the projects begun in the morning, shifting to different activities as needed or preferred.

Dinner: Dinner

Evening: Class: "Costume Basics for Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown" A member of the JYF staff describes the research behind the authentic costumes and the processes used to reproduce colonial clothing as accurately as possible for the living museums.

Lodging: Clarion Hotel Historic District

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Type: Hotel

 Description: The Clarion Hotel Historic District features 143 well-appointed guest rooms. On-site recreational offerings include a fitness center, an indoor heated pool with whirlpool and a game room. The hotel also offers great food and entertainment at the Bourbon Street Restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Walking distance to Colonial Williamsburg and two miles to Busch Gardens.

Contact info:
351 York Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
phone: 757-229-4100
web: www.clarionwilliamsburg.com

Room amenities: Room Amenities: Free high speed Internet access in all guest rooms and public spaces; dual-line speaker telephone; iron/ironing board; in-room movies; coffee maker; hair dryer; in room safes at no additional charge

Facility amenities: Facilities: 24-Hour Front Desk, business center, guest laundromat, dry cleaning service, fitness facility, game room, lounge, indoor whirlpool and indoor pool.

Smoking policy: No
Smoking policies vary by facility. During all group events and activities, smoking is prohibited.

Elevator: Yes

Additional nights before: $69p+ ($89+ sp. event wknds)
Make arrangements directly with the hotel. Limited rooms available at the discounted Road Scholar rate. Rate not available if hotel is sold out. Reservations require credit card guarantee. Cancellation must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival to avoid charge.

Check in time: 4:00 PM

Day Three: Tuesday, March 12 -  
Breakfast: Breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Service Work: Continue with projects from the preceding day, adding as needed and time allows new activities such as preparing teacher and student packets for the large numbers of school groups that visit the site.

Lunch: Platter Lunch at Settlement

Afternoon: Performance: "Colonial Instruments" Enjoy a fascinating presentation by a world-renowned musician as he plays and explains a variety of eighteenth century instruments, both familiar and unusual. Service Work: Continue working on projects begun earlier in the day.

Dinner: Dinner

Evening: Free Evening. Information will be provided about activities that you can participate in on your own.

Lodging: Clarion Hotel Historic District

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Close [ x ]
Type: Hotel

 Description: The Clarion Hotel Historic District features 143 well-appointed guest rooms. On-site recreational offerings include a fitness center, an indoor heated pool with whirlpool and a game room. The hotel also offers great food and entertainment at the Bourbon Street Restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Walking distance to Colonial Williamsburg and two miles to Busch Gardens.

Contact info:
351 York Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
phone: 757-229-4100
web: www.clarionwilliamsburg.com

Room amenities: Room Amenities: Free high speed Internet access in all guest rooms and public spaces; dual-line speaker telephone; iron/ironing board; in-room movies; coffee maker; hair dryer; in room safes at no additional charge

Facility amenities: Facilities: 24-Hour Front Desk, business center, guest laundromat, dry cleaning service, fitness facility, game room, lounge, indoor whirlpool and indoor pool.

Smoking policy: No
Smoking policies vary by facility. During all group events and activities, smoking is prohibited.

Elevator: Yes

Additional nights before: $69p+ ($89+ sp. event wknds)
Make arrangements directly with the hotel. Limited rooms available at the discounted Road Scholar rate. Rate not available if hotel is sold out. Reservations require credit card guarantee. Cancellation must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival to avoid charge.

Check in time: 4:00 PM

Day Four: Wednesday, March 13 -  
Breakfast: Breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Service Work: Complete projects as you spend your last day at the Settlement and prepare to move to other Foundation sites for the rest of the week.

Lunch: Lunch at hotel

Afternoon: Free Afternoon

Dinner: Dinner

Evening: Class: "Colonial Medicine/Life of a Private" In this introduction to the living history museum at Yorktown you will learn something of the rather remarkable medical practices at the time of the Revolution and investigate the world of a private in the Continental Army.

Lodging: Clarion Hotel Historic District

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Close [ x ]
Type: Hotel

 Description: The Clarion Hotel Historic District features 143 well-appointed guest rooms. On-site recreational offerings include a fitness center, an indoor heated pool with whirlpool and a game room. The hotel also offers great food and entertainment at the Bourbon Street Restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Walking distance to Colonial Williamsburg and two miles to Busch Gardens.

Contact info:
351 York Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
phone: 757-229-4100
web: www.clarionwilliamsburg.com

Room amenities: Room Amenities: Free high speed Internet access in all guest rooms and public spaces; dual-line speaker telephone; iron/ironing board; in-room movies; coffee maker; hair dryer; in room safes at no additional charge

Facility amenities: Facilities: 24-Hour Front Desk, business center, guest laundromat, dry cleaning service, fitness facility, game room, lounge, indoor whirlpool and indoor pool.

Smoking policy: No
Smoking policies vary by facility. During all group events and activities, smoking is prohibited.

Elevator: Yes

Additional nights before: $69p+ ($89+ sp. event wknds)
Make arrangements directly with the hotel. Limited rooms available at the discounted Road Scholar rate. Rate not available if hotel is sold out. Reservations require credit card guarantee. Cancellation must be made 48 hrs prior to arrival to avoid charge.

Check in time: 4:00 PM

Day Five: Thursday, March 14 -  
Breakfast: Breakfast at your leisure

Morning: Field Trip: "Yorktown Victory Center" Begin your day at Yorktown with a visit to the museum, the outdoor Revolutionary encampment and the eighteenth century farmstead to learn how soldiers and civilians lived at the time of the War for Independence. Service Work: Begin working on the various projects at this site. Activities may include barrel painting and preparation, landscaping, fence repair, and much more.

Lunch: Box Lunch

Afternoon: Service Work: Continue on the morning's projects, once again rotating among activities depending on the manpower needs and your preferences.

Dinner: Dinner

Evening: Free Evening

Lodging: Clarion Hotel Historic District

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day Six: Friday, March 15 -  
Breakfast: Breakfast

Morning: Field Trip: Round out your week with a visit to Historic Jamestowne, the actual site of the first successful English colony in North America. Observe archaeologists working at the original fort site and view the church tower still surviving from the early 1600's. Explore the fabulous Archaearium where artifacts from the Jamestown Rediscovery Project are housed. Here also you can peer through the special floor to see the remains of the early statehouse where democracy took root in the New World.

Lunch: Special Final Lunch and Slide Show of the Week End of Program

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch


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Williamsburg
Tidewater Area: Williamsburg/Jamestown and YorktownOur Road Scholar service programs are filled with plenty of work time, along with lectures, field trips and performances. The day-by-day itinerary details what you will see and do. The schedule includes a free afternoon during the week to pursue your own interests; otherwise, there will be only a few hours of unstructured time per day. Because the Road Scholar schedule is so full, there will be little opportunity for independent exploration of other sites in the Williamsburg area. We suggest you consider taking time before or after the program to enjoy local attractions. The Colonial Williamsburg website, www.history.org, includes a detailed calendar of events that you might want to investigate. Websites for other area attractions such as Jamestown and Yorktown will have additional information.
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