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This is the College of William and Mary's art museum, but it's not just for students. (It's a fine side trip if you are visiting your student, however, or visiting with your wannabe student!) Located along Jamestown Road about one-half a mile from Merchant's Square (the College end of Colonial Williamsburg), the Muscarelle will clear your senses if you need a break from colonial Virginia by transporting you to Europe, Asia, ...

Bring your bike to Williamsburg and bike along the new trail! In the long run, this trail will connect Virginia's three capital cities of Jamestown (1607), Williamsburg (1699), and Richmond (1784) for the entire 50-some mile distance. For now, however, the best part of the trail is up and running between Jamestown and Chickahominy Riverfront Park. It's about 7 miles or 15 round trip. Leave your car at Jamestown Settlement ...

The Kimball Theatre, located on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, provides a variety of entertainment for College of William and Mary students, visitors to Colonial Williamsburg, and locals. The subdued Georgian building isn't graced with a flashing neon sign, so you have to know to look for it midway the block between the Cheese Shop and Williams-Sonoma.

The Kimball was a favorite of John D. Rockefeller when he visited the ...

When I was in college, Colonial Williamsburg held all of the cards when it came to fine dining in Williamsburg. More recently, Merchants Square, located at the end of Colonial Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street near the College of William and Mary, is the place to go. There are five full restaurants and several more cafes and coffeeshops within a two block area ... filled with lots of other fine ...

The Williamsburg Winery is located on one of the oldest farms in America, less than 10 miles from Historic Jamestowne and less than 5 from Colonial Williamsburg. The tour leaves from the retail shop and takes you through the wine operation that started in the mid-1980s. Award-winning wines were produced there within ten years. Tours start every half hour and cost $8 per person. You taste 7 wines and get to ...

Located in the New Town section of Williamsburg, the Corner Pocket is dinner and something to do/entertainment all in one. We went with out-of-town guests and 4 of our group of 6 played several games of pool after dinner. Two of us lagged at the dinner table to chat, then moved over with our coffee to the pool area to watch husbands and children pair off.

The owner and I have known ...

A fresh cup of coffee and a comfortable eatery: that's Aromas, just one block from Colonial Williamsburg's main street, Duke of Gloucester Street, and one block from the College of William and Mary. It is a favorite hangout for students, a meeting place for locals, and a "just what I was looking for" coffeehouse for visitors. Aromas is open early and closes late --- one of the few late-night places in ...

Let me begin by saying that Jamestown isn't a town today. If you remember your history, the 1600s settlers thought it was swampy and buggy, so after the village was burned, a new capital city was planned and built just up the road. Founded in 1699, Williamsburg is at the center of the James-York Peninsula.

Now, on to restaurants! So, Jamestown isn't a town: the choices are slim. That said, the choices ...

The Live Off Five live music series at Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists church (www.wuu.org/liveofffive.htm) is the kind of event every music-loving person hopes to find in a tourist town. Since Williamsburg is a tourist town and a college town, the combination often results in good programing that is well attended by visitors and locals. If you are lucky enough to be visiting when a performance is scheduled then lucky you! ...

Bread ends and house dressing. Yummm. Find out why thousands of College of William and Mary alums come back year after year. The Cheese Shop of Williamsburg hasn't change the house dressing recipe since ... forever. One time I asked Mary Ellen Power, one of the owners, what people came to the Cheese Shop to buy most often and she said the Cheese! Well, really, now that our taste buds ...