{"id":5711,"date":"2021-06-13T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2024-06-03T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T21:08:07","slug":"202106virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/202106virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Trip to Jamestown and Norfolk, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second weekend of June 2021. With summer calling, I decided to make an overnight trip to Virginia Beach for some typical summer fun. On the way there, I would be visiting historic Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America and cradle of American civilization. It turned out that Virginia Beach was sort of underwhelming, so on the second day, I visited Chrysler Museum in downtown Norfolk instead.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8393.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8393.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of John Smith\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Statue of John Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the morning of June 12, I set off from my home in northern suburb of Washington DC and headed for Virginia. I left home just past 9am, which unfortunately meant I was greeted with the horrendous traffic on I95 between DC and Richmond. The interstate was packed the entire way, and 3 lanes per direction were woefully inadequate for DC traffic volume.<br \/>\nIn the end, it took me almost 4 hours to reach Jamestown, one more than what I first planned. If there had to be an upside, Waze guided me on VA5 on the final leg to avoid slowdown on I64, and country roads of Virginia were scenic as ever.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Historic_Jamestown\">Historic Jamestown<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><script src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/splide.min.2.4.21.js\"><\/script>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/splide-skyblue.min.css\">\n<script>\ndocument.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function () {\n\tvar secondarySlider1 = new Splide( '#splide-thumb-1', {\n\t\tfixedWidth:100,height:67,gap:10,\n\t\tfocus:'center',keyboard:'focused',\n\t\tcover:true,isNavigation:true,\n\t\tbreakpoints :{'600':{fixedWidth:57,height:38,pagination:false,arrows:false,gap:5,}},\n\t} ).mount();\n\tvar primarySlider1 = new Splide( '#splide-major-1', {\n\t\ttype:'fade',pagination:false,arrows:false,\n\t} );\n\tprimarySlider1.sync( secondarySlider1 ).mount();\n\tvar secondarySlider2 = new Splide( '#splide-thumb-2', 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{\n\t\tfixedWidth:100,height:75,gap:9,\n\t\tfocus:'center',keyboard:'focused',\n\t\tcover:true,isNavigation:true,\n\t\tbreakpoints :{'600':{fixedWidth:56,height:42,pagination:false,arrows:false,gap:5,}},\n\t} ).mount();\n\tvar primarySlider12 = new Splide( '#splide-major-12', {\n\t\ttype:'fade',pagination:false,arrows:false,\n\t} );\n\tprimarySlider12.sync( secondarySlider12 ).mount();\n} );\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first permanent English settlement in America was established in May 1607. After landing in Cape Henry (First Landing State Park) in April, they explored the nearby waters and decided to set up camp 40 miles upstream along James River, at a defendable spot in current-day Jamestown.<br \/>\nThe first few years of the colony were plagued by drought and conflicts with native people, yet the colony survived with help of supplies coming from England and later tobacco farming. In 1619, the first representative assembly in America was held in Jamestown Church, whose 17th century church tower was still standing till this day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller\">A brief note about visiting Jamestown as there were 2 sites of &#8220;historic Jamestown&#8221;. The first one (<a href=\"https:\/\/historicjamestowne.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historicjamestowne.org<\/a>), located on the James Island, is a partner between NPS and local organizations and contains the actual site of the first colony. It contains many archeology sites and feels more like history representation. The second one (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisfun.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historyisfun.org<\/a>), located next to VA31, is run by local organizations and contained recreations of the colony together with the few ships that sailed across the Atlantic. It feels like history reenactment to me. I only had time to visit the former.<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8379.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8379.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8413.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8413.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><\/br>Wetland<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">A footbridge took visitors across this wetland to the site of historic Jamestown.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a gloomy day with occasional drizzle at Jamestown. Probably due to its proximity to water, I was bothered by some bugs at first, but Deet seemed to work quite well against them.<\/p>\n<p>A short walk from the parking lot, I was on the site of the original Jamestown colony. Historians used archaeological data and recreated most of the palisades around the colony. Unfortunately due to shore erosion, part of the original triangular colony was now in water.<\/p>\n<p>I first visited Jamestown Church, the only standing structure on the site while all other buildings did not survive through time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-1\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8380.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8380.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/a><\/br>Jamestown Church<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the few surviving structures at the site. The current structure was built in 1907.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8412.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8412.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/a><\/br>Jamestown Church<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the few surviving structures at the site. The current structure was built in 1907.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8389.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8389.jpg\" alt=\"Church Foundations\" \/><\/a><\/br>Church Foundations<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The church had been rebuilt many times, each time a different size at slightly different locations. Underneath the glass were one of the original foundations, which was a size smaller than the current walls.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8408.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8408.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><\/br>Church Interior<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8409.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8409.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><\/br>Church Interior<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8410.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8410.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><\/br>Church Interior<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8391.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8391.jpg\" alt=\"Churchyard\" \/><\/a><\/br>Churchyard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-1\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8380.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8412.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8389.jpg\" alt=\"Church Foundations\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8408.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8409.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8410.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8391.jpg\" alt=\"Churchyard\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-1, #splide-thumb-1 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of Jamestown Church.<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8380.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8380.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Jamestown Church<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the few surviving structures at the site. The current structure was built in 1907.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8412.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8412.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Jamestown Church<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the few surviving structures at the site. The current structure was built in 1907.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8389.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8389.jpg\" alt=\"Church Foundations\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Church Foundations<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The church had been rebuilt many times, each time a different size at slightly different locations. Underneath the glass were one of the original foundations, which was a size smaller than the current walls.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8408.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8408.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Church Interior<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8409.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8409.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Church Interior<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8410.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8410.jpg\" alt=\"Church Interior\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Church Interior<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8391.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8391.jpg\" alt=\"Churchyard\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Churchyard<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>After that, I walked around the remaining part of this first colony, including an archaeology museum nearby. The entire site was a collaboration between National Park Service (NPS) and Preservation Virginia, a non-profit organization, with the latter in charge of the areas of the first colony, and former in charge of pretty much rest of James Island, including the nearby &#8220;New Town&#8221; where Jamestown expanded along the river in the 17th Century with ruins of townhouses. It felt to me that Preservation Virginia was doing a much better job at educating the public. Their workers\/volunteers were roaming the grounds of the colony answering people&#8217;s questions or giving tours around, while on the NPS part everything seemed to be in a worse shape with old fences and broken information boards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-2\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8406.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8406.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Entrance\" \/><\/a><\/br>Reconstructed Entrance<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8381.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8381.jpg\" alt=\"Councillor's Row Built on Burial Grounds\" \/><\/a><\/br>Councillor&#8217;s Row Built on Burial Grounds<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Archaeological excavations at this location uncovered the stone foundations that once supported the sills of two substantially built timber-frame structures. The cobble footings encompassed H-shaped brick chimney foundations indicating back-to-back fireplace locations in several rooms.<\/br>The buildings were likely constructed in 1611, at Virginia Company expense, as residences for Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Gates and other government officials. These buildings are unusually large, reflecting a greater Virginia Company investment in Jamestown<\/br>.Archaeological excavations here revealed over thirty grave shafts. Located beneath the remnants of the ca. 1611 \u201cCouncillors Row\u201d building, the graves predate the construction of that structure. The first year was very harsh, out of the original 104 settlers, only 38 survived. Virginia Company instructions mandated that the dead and sick be concealed from the Indians, a possible reason for the burial ground being located here, inside the fort. A few of these burials have been investigated.<\/br>The archaeology team uses forensics, chemistry, and history to work towards an identification of these first settlers. Archaeologists can identify the age, sex, and origin of the remains. All of these clues \u2014 along with the location of the burials within the fort \u2014 confirm this to be the first burial ground of 1607.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8394.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8394.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Cannon by River\" \/><\/a><\/br>Reconstructed Cannon by River<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The original settler chose to sail upstream along James River to the current site to set up encampment, due to its geological location where the river wound, so that invading ships could be spotted well in advance and defended against.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8395.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8395.jpg\" alt=\"The Barracks\" \/><\/a><\/br>The Barracks<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Like this experimental frame structure before you, most buildings found at James Fort were of earthfast or post-in-ground construction.<\/br>Main structural posts were seated directly in the ground without the use of footings. Once the building disappeared, rotted posts and postholes remained. Based on the tell-tale patterns of these postholes, it is likely that the early structures were constructed in a style known as \u201cMud and Stud,\u201d a way of building well recorded in 17th-century documentary sources and in centuries-old standing buildings in Lincolnshire.<\/br>This building had a cellar, which was the first major archaeological feature from the fort period to be identified by the Jamestown Rediscovery project. The cellar became a trash pit once the building above it fell into disrepair. Through careful excavation and water screening of the cellar fill, many thousands of late 16th- and early 17th-century artifacts were retrieved.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8384.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8384.jpg\" alt=\"Statehouse Foundation\" \/><\/a><\/br>Statehouse Foundation<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8385.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8385.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/a><\/br>Museum<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Built over the Statehouse foundation. Archaeologists finished excavations at the site before the museum was built, with foundation columns avoiding those of the original statehouse.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8386.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8386.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/a><\/br>Museum<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Unfortunately photography wasn&#8217;t permitted in the museum, so I didn&#8217;t have anything to show.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8411.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8411.jpg\" alt=\"Archeology Site\" \/><\/a><\/br>Archeology Site<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Just as I was leaving, a guide was on site giving a tour, and he had the canvas open so we got to peek behind it, which consisted of more canvas.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-2\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8406.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Entrance\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8381.jpg\" alt=\"Councillor's Row Built on Burial Grounds\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8394.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Cannon by River\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8395.jpg\" alt=\"The Barracks\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8384.jpg\" alt=\"Statehouse Foundation\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8385.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8386.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8411.jpg\" alt=\"Archeology Site\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-2, #splide-thumb-2 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8406.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8406.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Entrance\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Reconstructed Entrance<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8381.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8381.jpg\" alt=\"Councillor's Row Built on Burial Grounds\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Councillor&#8217;s Row Built on Burial Grounds<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Archaeological excavations at this location uncovered the stone foundations that once supported the sills of two substantially built timber-frame structures. The cobble footings encompassed H-shaped brick chimney foundations indicating back-to-back fireplace locations in several rooms.<\/br>The buildings were likely constructed in 1611, at Virginia Company expense, as residences for Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Gates and other government officials. These buildings are unusually large, reflecting a greater Virginia Company investment in Jamestown<\/br>Archaeological excavations here revealed over thirty grave shafts. Located beneath the remnants of the ca. 1611 \u201cCouncillors Row\u201d building, the graves predate the construction of that structure. The first year was very harsh, out of the original 104 settlers, only 38 survived. Virginia Company instructions mandated that the dead and sick be concealed from the Indians, a possible reason for the burial ground being located here, inside the fort. A few of these burials have been investigated.<\/br>The archaeology team uses forensics, chemistry, and history to work towards an identification of these first settlers. Archaeologists can identify the age, sex, and origin of the remains. All of these clues \u2014 along with the location of the burials within the fort \u2014 confirm this to be the first burial ground of 1607.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8394.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8394.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Cannon by River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Reconstructed Cannon by River<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The original settler chose to sail upstream along James River to the current site to set up encampment, due to its geological location where the river wound, so that invading ships could be spotted well in advance and defended against.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8395.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8395.jpg\" alt=\"The Barracks\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>The Barracks<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Like this experimental frame structure before you, most buildings found at James Fort were of earthfast or post-in-ground construction.<\/br>Main structural posts were seated directly in the ground without the use of footings. Once the building disappeared, rotted posts and postholes remained. Based on the tell-tale patterns of these postholes, it is likely that the early structures were constructed in a style known as \u201cMud and Stud,\u201d a way of building well recorded in 17th-century documentary sources and in centuries-old standing buildings in Lincolnshire.<\/br>This building had a cellar, which was the first major archaeological feature from the fort period to be identified by the Jamestown Rediscovery project. The cellar became a trash pit once the building above it fell into disrepair. Through careful excavation and water screening of the cellar fill, many thousands of late 16th- and early 17th-century artifacts were retrieved.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8384.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8384.jpg\" alt=\"Statehouse Foundation\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Statehouse Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8385.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8385.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Museum<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Built over the Statehouse foundation. Archaeologists finished excavations at the site before the museum was built, with foundation columns avoiding those of the original statehouse.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8386.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8386.jpg\" alt=\"Museum\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Museum<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Unfortunately photography wasn&#8217;t permitted in the museum, so I didn&#8217;t have anything to show.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8411.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8411.jpg\" alt=\"Archeology Site\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Archeology Site<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Just as I was leaving, a guide was on site giving a tour, and he had the canvas open so we got to peek behind it, which consisted of more canvas.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-3\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8383.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8383.jpg\" alt=\"Horse Trough\" \/><\/a><\/br>Horse Trough<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Set up in 1907 and donated by the Society of Colonial Wars to honor the 300th anniversary of Jamestown. In 1907, most visitors to Jamestown came by steamboat or by horse, so this horse trough provided needed water for the horses.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8392.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8392.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church Tower\" \/><\/a><\/br>Jamestown Church Tower<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">That survived from the 17th Century.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_152937.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_152937.jpg\" alt=\"Monument\" \/><\/a><\/br>Monument<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-3\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8383.jpg\" alt=\"Horse Trough\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8392.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church Tower\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_152937.jpg\" alt=\"Monument\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-3, #splide-thumb-3 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8383.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8383.jpg\" alt=\"Horse Trough\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Horse Trough<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Set up in 1907 and donated by the Society of Colonial Wars to honor the 300th anniversary of Jamestown. In 1907, most visitors to Jamestown came by steamboat or by horse, so this horse trough provided needed water for the horses.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8392.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8392.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Church Tower\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Jamestown Church Tower<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">That survived from the 17th Century.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_152937.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_152937.jpg\" alt=\"Monument\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Monument<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8396.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8396.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Field of Geese\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8398.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8398.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Field of Geese\" \/><\/a><\/br>Field of Geese<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">They were the most noticeable residents of the island.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>After that, I headed east to &#8220;New Town&#8221;, the NPS part of the site, featuring ruins of a few buildings in the 17th Century. As Jamestown survived through its first few years of plight, it expanded along the waterfront into &#8220;New Town&#8221;. Here, the buildings weren&#8217;t of as much historical importance as the original James Fort, so I just took it as a casual walk in the park, with occasional information boards telling stories of their owners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-4\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8397.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8397.jpg\" alt=\"Ruins\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ruins<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8399.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8399.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ambler House<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The Ambler House was built by the Ambler family in the 1750s as the centerpiece of a fine plantation estate. A refined Georgian-style home, it was comparable to the elegant George Wythe House in Williamsburg. The house was burned in 2 wars, and after a third fire in 1895, was abandoned.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8402.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8402.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ambler House<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The Ambler House was built by the Ambler family in the 1750s as the centerpiece of a fine plantation estate. A refined Georgian-style home, it was comparable to the elegant George Wythe House in Williamsburg. The house was burned in 2 wars, and after a third fire in 1895, was abandoned.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8400.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8400.jpg\" alt=\"Trees\" \/><\/a><\/br>Trees<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8404.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8404.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Swann's Tavern\" \/><\/a><\/br>Site of Swann&#8217;s Tavern<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Councilman Colonel Thomas Swann resided across the James River at this Swann Point plantation, he also leased a Jamestown tavern that provided accommodations to colonists who attended the assembly and courts, or had business in town.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-4\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8397.jpg\" alt=\"Ruins\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8399.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8402.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8400.jpg\" alt=\"Trees\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8404.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Swann's Tavern\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-4, #splide-thumb-4 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8397.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8397.jpg\" alt=\"Ruins\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Ruins<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8399.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8399.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Ambler House<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The Ambler House was built by the Ambler family in the 1750s as the centerpiece of a fine plantation estate. A refined Georgian-style home, it was comparable to the elegant George Wythe House in Williamsburg. The house was burned in 2 wars, and after a third fire in 1895, was abandoned.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8402.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8402.jpg\" alt=\"Ambler House\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Ambler House<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The Ambler House was built by the Ambler family in the 1750s as the centerpiece of a fine plantation estate. A refined Georgian-style home, it was comparable to the elegant George Wythe House in Williamsburg. The house was burned in 2 wars, and after a third fire in 1895, was abandoned.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8400.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8400.jpg\" alt=\"Trees\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Trees<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8404.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8404.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Swann's Tavern\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Site of Swann&#8217;s Tavern<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Councilman Colonel Thomas Swann resided across the James River at this Swann Point plantation, he also leased a Jamestown tavern that provided accommodations to colonists who attended the assembly and courts, or had business in town.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Island_Loop_Drive\">Island Loop Drive<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>After wrapping up my visit to the historic colony site, I decided to check out the nearby Island Drive Loop.<br \/>\nWhich turned out to be a bit underwhelming as there&#8217;s really not much to see around the loop road. A few information boards scattered around the road, just like Yorktown Battlefield. But unlike Yorktown, they felt random and uncorrelated and unorganized.<br \/>\nAt the far end of the loop there&#8217;s a 270m trail to Black Point, the edge of James Island, which turned out to be neither black nor with decent views (p1-p4 in the slideshow).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8415.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8415.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Trail\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8416.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8416.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Trail\" \/><\/a><\/br>Trail to Black Point<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-5\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_155429.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_155429.jpg\" alt=\"Black Point\" \/><\/a><\/br>Black Point<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8419Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8419Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Structure in James River\" \/><\/a><\/br>Structure in James River<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Certainly an artificial structure that had fallen into disrepair and got occupied by birds&#8217; nests. I had no clue what it was.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8421.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8421.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><\/br>James River<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8423.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8423.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Branches at Shore\" \/><\/a><\/br>Fallen Branches at Shore<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8425.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8425.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Travis Family Cemetery\" \/><\/a><\/br>Site of Travis Family Cemetery<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">After Williamsburg became Virginia&#8217;s capital in 1699, Jamestown began a slow decline. The Reverend Hugh Jones I reported in 1747 that Jamestown consisted \u201cof nothing but abundance of brick rubbish and three or four good inhabited houses.\u201d By then, two prominent families controlled most of the island&#8217;s acreage \u2014 the Amblers (whose home stands in ruins in the townsite today) and the Travises. From the 1630s into the 19th century, the Travis family owned this part of Jamestown Island.<\/br>Revelers celebrating the founding of Jamestown accidentally burned the Travis home in May 1822. A newspaperman who witnessed the fire reported, \u201cHeavens! Just as I am writing this, the old brick building belonging to Colonel Travis&#8217; estate has taken fire and the roof is already in a blaze. It was an uninhabitable ruin, to be sure, but I am sorry, as it is one of the few remaining monuments of antiquity here, to see it disappearing from the scene.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_160824.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_160824.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><\/br>Wetland<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_160833.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_160833.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><\/br>Wetland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-5\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_155429.jpg\" alt=\"Black Point\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8419Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Structure in James River\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8421.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8423.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Branches at Shore\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8425.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Travis Family Cemetery\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_160824.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_160833.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-5, #splide-thumb-5 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_155429.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_155429.jpg\" alt=\"Black Point\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Black Point<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8419Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8419Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Structure in James River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Structure in James River<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Certainly an artificial structure that had fallen into disrepair and got occupied by birds&#8217; nests. I had no clue what it was.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8421.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8421.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>James River<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8423.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8423.jpg\" alt=\"Fallen Branches at Shore\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Fallen Branches at Shore<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8425.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8425.jpg\" alt=\"Site of Travis Family Cemetery\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Site of Travis Family Cemetery<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">After Williamsburg became Virginia&#8217;s capital in 1699, Jamestown began a slow decline. The Reverend Hugh Jones I reported in 1747 that Jamestown consisted \u201cof nothing but abundance of brick rubbish and three or four good inhabited houses.\u201d By then, two prominent families controlled most of the island&#8217;s acreage \u2014 the Amblers (whose home stands in ruins in the townsite today) and the Travises. From the 1630s into the 19th century, the Travis family owned this part of Jamestown Island.<\/br>Revelers celebrating the founding of Jamestown accidentally burned the Travis home in May 1822. A newspaperman who witnessed the fire reported, \u201cHeavens! Just as I am writing this, the old brick building belonging to Colonel Travis&#8217; estate has taken fire and the roof is already in a blaze. It was an uninhabitable ruin, to be sure, but I am sorry, as it is one of the few remaining monuments of antiquity here, to see it disappearing from the scene.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_160824.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_160824.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_160833.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_160833.jpg\" alt=\"Wetland\" \/><\/a><\/br>Wetland<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"Glasshouse\">Glasshouse<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>On the way out I passed by the site of Jamestown Glasshouse, which consisted of ruins of the original glasshouse constructed around 1608, together with a modern recreation. As described by an information board nearby, the site had access to both sand and wood, ingredients and fuel for making glass that was in high demand in Europe. Unfortunately, the glasshouse didn&#8217;t stay operational for long before famine and conflicts with native people forced its closure. <\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-6\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8426.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8426.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/a><\/br>Remnants of Original Glasshouse<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8427.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8427.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/a><\/br>Remnants of Original Glasshouse<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8430.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8430.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Glass House\" \/><\/a><\/br>Reconstructed Glass House<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Now manned by local craftspeople demonstrating the process of making glass. It also sold various glassware as a souvenir shop here.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-6\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8426.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8427.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8430.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Glass House\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-6, #splide-thumb-6 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the glasshouse.<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8426.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8426.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8427.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8427.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Original Glasshouse\" \/><\/a><\/br>Remnants of Original Glasshouse<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8430.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8430.jpg\" alt=\"Reconstructed Glass House\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Reconstructed Glass House<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Now manned by local craftspeople demonstrating the process of making glass. It also sold various glassware as a souvenir shop here.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Jamestown_Scotland_Ferry\">Jamestown Scotland Ferry<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Originally, I planned to head for Virginia Beach for some cool time in the waters after visiting Jamestown. After seeing heavy traffic on I64 near Hampton on my phone, I decided to take the (free) ferry across James River to Scotland, then travel along more country roads before joining I664 around Norfolk which would take me to Virginia Beach.<br \/>\nThis meant I got a boat tour of historic Jamestown on the ferry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-7\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8438.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8438.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry Boat\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ferry Boat<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8432.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8432.jpg\" alt=\"Another Ferry Boat\" \/><\/a><\/br>Another Ferry Boat<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Two ferry boats served in the Jamestown \u2013 Scotland ferry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8433Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8433Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Historic Ship Museum\" \/><\/a><\/br>Jamestown Historic Ship Museum<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Featuring recreated ships of the 1607 English ships.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8435Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8435Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge onto James Island\" \/><\/a><\/br>Bridge onto James Island<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If not for this bridge James Island would be detached from the mainland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8443.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8443.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/a><\/br>Historic Jamestown<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8445.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8445.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/a><\/br>Historic Jamestown<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8437.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8437.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><\/br>James River<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8446.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8446.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><\/br>James River<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tip of James Island in the foreground.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8447.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8447.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><\/br>James River<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Approaching Scotland.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-7\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8438.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry Boat\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8432.jpg\" alt=\"Another Ferry Boat\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8433Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Historic Ship Museum\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8435Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge onto James Island\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8443.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8445.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8437.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8446.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8447.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-7, #splide-thumb-7 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8438.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8438.jpg\" alt=\"Ferry Boat\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Ferry Boat<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8432.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8432.jpg\" alt=\"Another Ferry Boat\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Another Ferry Boat<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Two ferry boats served in the Jamestown \u2013 Scotland ferry.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8433Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8433Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown Historic Ship Museum\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Jamestown Historic Ship Museum<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Featuring recreated ships of the 1607 English ships.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8435Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8435Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge onto James Island\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Bridge onto James Island<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If not for this bridge James Island would be detached from the mainland.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8443.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8443.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8445.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8445.jpg\" alt=\"Historic Jamestown\" \/><\/a><\/br>Historic Jamestown<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8437.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8437.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>James River<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8446.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8446.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>James River<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tip of James Island in the foreground.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8447.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8447.jpg\" alt=\"James River\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>James River<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Approaching Scotland.<\/span><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Virginia_Beach\">Virginia Beach<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_182651.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_20210612_182651.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Virginia Beach\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_183842.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_20210612_183842.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Virginia Beach\" \/><\/a><\/br>Virginia Beach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately with traffic jam in the morning and difficulties in finding parking, it&#8217;s 6:20pm by the time I set foot on the sands of Virginia Beach, less than 2 hours before sunset. To make matters worse, it happened to be the coldest weekend of the month, with wind blowing from the sea making me feel a bit chilly. In addition, the waters at Virginia Beach weren&#8217;t as pristine as I&#8217;d like it to be, which I attributed to the industries nearby. As a result, I just set up my beach chair on the sand and pretended that I was enjoying this &#8220;vacation&#8221; while actually watching movies on my pad, and it turned out most other people were like me, enjoying the beach but not the water. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_182712.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_182712.jpg\" alt=\"Vacation Mode on Virginia Beach\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Vacation Mode on Virginia Beach<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">I set up my beach chair a few meters from the water, which was safe at first, until I witnessed tide rising and I had to move it back a few more meters in an hour.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Approaching sunset and with it getting even colder <del>and me running out of movies<\/del>, I decided to call it a day. After washing my legs off sand at the nearby public foot wash, which was certainly harder than what it seemed, I drove back to Norfolk and checked into my overnight hotel in its southern suburb.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Hotel_Hyatt_Place_Chesapeake\">Hotel: Hyatt Place Chesapeake<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s picked largely for being one of the few cat 1 Hyatt properties costing only 5000 Hyatt points per night. In addition, Hyatt was running a promotion of 2500 award points for every 2 nights in 2021Q2, and I had an odd number of nights before this, which quite contributed to my decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-8\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_211801.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_211801.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/a><\/br>Hotel Room<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As expected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_211806.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_211806.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/a><\/br>Hotel Room<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As expected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_213947Q9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_213947Q9.jpg\" alt=\"Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/a><\/br>Cleanness Issue<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Something sticky (candy?) on table&#8217;s edge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_213957Q9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_213957Q9.jpg\" alt=\" Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/a><\/br>Cleanness Issue<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hair on Towel<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_084144.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_084144.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast\" \/><\/a><\/br>Breakfast<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">At least the breakfast brought some redemption. While it&#8217;s technically grab-and-go format, they didn&#8217;t seem to care if one wanted to consume it at the other end of the lobby. As for the food options, due to COVID there was only packaged options, but it&#8217;s certainly acceptable in my opinion.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-8\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_211801.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_211806.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_213947Q9.jpg\" alt=\"Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210612_213957Q9.jpg\" alt=\"Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210613_084144.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-8, #splide-thumb-8 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the hotel.<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_211801.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_211801.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_211806.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_211806.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Room\" \/><\/a><\/br>Hotel Room<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As expected.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_213947Q9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_213947Q9.jpg\" alt=\"Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Cleanness Issue<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Something sticky (candy?) on table&#8217;s edge.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210612_213957Q9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210612_213957Q9.jpg\" alt=\"Cleanness Issue\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Cleanness Issue<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hair on Towel<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_084144.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_084144.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Breakfast<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">At least the breakfast brought some redemption. While it&#8217;s technically grab-and-go format, they didn&#8217;t seem to care if one wanted to consume it at the other end of the lobby. As for the food options, due to COVID there was only packaged options, but it&#8217;s certainly acceptable in my opinion.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Chrysler_Museum\">Chrysler Museum<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>After checking it out the previous afternoon, I found I didn\u2019t quite like the waters off Virginia Beach, so instead of going to the beach today I decided to try something different, which ended up being Chrysler Museum, an art museum with free admission in downtown Norfolk. <\/p>\n<p>It turned out that I quite enjoyed the few hours I spent in it. It got a decent collection of classical arts with good descriptions and wasn\u2019t too crowded. Here are a few highlights picked by me:<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-9\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8481.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8481.jpg\" alt=\"Facade\" \/><\/a><\/br>Facade<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8480.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8480.jpg\" alt=\"Canvases in Atrium\" \/><\/a><\/br>Canvases in Atrium<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8451.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8451.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8452.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8452.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8454.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8454.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8455.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8455.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8460.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8460.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8465Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8465Q10.jpg\" alt=\"War Time\" \/><\/a><\/br>War Time<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Briton Riviere.English, 1840-1920<\/br>War Time, 1874.Oil on canvas<\/br>Briton Riviere achieved fame for his heartfelt depictions of dogs, and it is the devoted dogs in this painting that tell us there is something amiss with their master. Like them, we look at the old sheepherder, wondering why he has abandoned his distant flock and retreated to his farmyard. The newspaper in his hand provides the grim answer. It reports the death of his son in battle.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8468Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8468Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Neophyte\" \/><\/a><\/br>The Neophyte<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Gustave Dor\u00e9.French, 1832-1883<\/br>The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery), Ca. 1866-68.Oil on canvas<\/br>New to the monastery, a young man gazes woefully at the viewer. He clearly regrets his vows. Anxious images like this one were a staple of Romantic art, and Gustave Dore was a master of the genre. He took his subject from George Sand\u2019s contemporary novel Spiridion, in which a young novice, Brother Angel, bemoans his isolation behind the cloister wall. Dore heightens the youth&#8217;s desolation by contrasting his tense posture and youthfulness with the row of bent and decrepit old men. Dore himself noted the grim humor of the young man\u2019s predicament and quipped, \u201cHe will be over the wall tonight.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8471Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8471Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Bridge\" \/><\/a><\/br>Natural Bridge<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Oscar Edmund Berninghaus.American, 1874-1952<\/br>Natural Bridge, ca.1914.Oil on board laid on panel<\/br>How do you make a rock formation that is millions of years old seem new again? Oscar Edmund Berninghaus likely created this view of Virginia&#8217;s iconic natural wonder as part of an advertising campaign for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. Natural Bridge, a sacred site to the Monacan Indian Nation, was once owned by Thomas Jefferson and had been a popular subject for artists in the nineteenth century. Berninghaus pictured the area as it appeared in the twentieth century, with tiny tourists dotting the valley floor. He employed a bold style well-suited to modern advertising, though it is not certain if this image was ever used in any ads.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8478.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8478.jpg\" alt=\"Ganymede and the Eagle\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ganymede and the Eagle<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Bertel Thorvaldsen.Danish, 1770-1844<\/br>Ganymede and the Eagle, ca. 1815-17.Marble<\/br>According to Greek myth, Ganymede, the beautiful prince of Troy, caught the eye of the great god Zeus, who fell in love with the boy. Disguising himself as an eagle, Zeus carried the young prince off to Olympus, where he served as cupbearer to the gods. The contrast seen here between the boy&#8217;s soft skin and the bird&#8217;s rugged feathers enhances the story\u2019s theme of innocence in the grip of cosmic cunning. With suave, psychologically intense works like this one, Bertel Thorvaldsen influenced a generation of Neoclassical sculptors.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_143331.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_143331.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch\" \/><\/a><\/br>Lunch<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The museum had a small cafeteria with limited selections of cold food. I decided to try out this Asian salad bowl, which turned out to be great. In particular, the Mochi in the upper-right brought back a taste that I had been missing for years.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-9\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8481.jpg\" alt=\"Facade\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8480.jpg\" alt=\"Canvases in Atrium\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8451.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8452.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8454.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8455.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8460.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8465Q10.jpg\" alt=\"War Time\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8468Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Neophyte\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8471Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Bridge\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8478.jpg\" alt=\"Ganymede and the Eagle\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210613_143331.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-9, #splide-thumb-9 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8481.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8481.jpg\" alt=\"Facade\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Facade<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8480.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8480.jpg\" alt=\"Canvases in Atrium\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Canvases in Atrium<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8451.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8451.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8452.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8452.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8454.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8454.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8460.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8460.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><\/br>Chess Set<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8455.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8455.jpg\" alt=\"Chess Set\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Chess Set<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By Italian artist Gianni Toso in 1985. Here different characters have various drastic composures and facial expressions. A closer looked revealed this depicted a religion war between Christianity and Islam.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8465Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8465Q10.jpg\" alt=\"War Time\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>War Time<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Briton Riviere.English, 1840-1920<\/br>War Time, 1874.Oil on canvas<\/br>Briton Riviere achieved fame for his heartfelt depictions of dogs, and it is the devoted dogs in this painting that tell us there is something amiss with their master. Like them, we look at the old sheepherder, wondering why he has abandoned his distant flock and retreated to his farmyard. The newspaper in his hand provides the grim answer. It reports the death of his son in battle.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8468Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8468Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Neophyte\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>The Neophyte<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Gustave Dor\u00e9.French, 1832-1883<\/br>The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery), Ca. 1866-68.Oil on canvas<\/br>New to the monastery, a young man gazes woefully at the viewer. He clearly regrets his vows. Anxious images like this one were a staple of Romantic art, and Gustave Dore was a master of the genre. He took his subject from George Sand\u2019s contemporary novel Spiridion, in which a young novice, Brother Angel, bemoans his isolation behind the cloister wall. Dore heightens the youth&#8217;s desolation by contrasting his tense posture and youthfulness with the row of bent and decrepit old men. Dore himself noted the grim humor of the young man\u2019s predicament and quipped, \u201cHe will be over the wall tonight.\u201d<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8471Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8471Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Bridge\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Natural Bridge<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Oscar Edmund Berninghaus.American, 1874-1952<\/br>Natural Bridge, ca.1914.Oil on board laid on panel<\/br>How do you make a rock formation that is millions of years old seem new again? Oscar Edmund Berninghaus likely created this view of Virginia&#8217;s iconic natural wonder as part of an advertising campaign for the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. Natural Bridge, a sacred site to the Monacan Indian Nation, was once owned by Thomas Jefferson and had been a popular subject for artists in the nineteenth century. Berninghaus pictured the area as it appeared in the twentieth century, with tiny tourists dotting the valley floor. He employed a bold style well-suited to modern advertising, though it is not certain if this image was ever used in any ads.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8478.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8478.jpg\" alt=\"Ganymede and the Eagle\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Ganymede and the Eagle<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Bertel Thorvaldsen.Danish, 1770-1844<\/br>Ganymede and the Eagle, ca. 1815-17.Marble<\/br>According to Greek myth, Ganymede, the beautiful prince of Troy, caught the eye of the great god Zeus, who fell in love with the boy. Disguising himself as an eagle, Zeus carried the young prince off to Olympus, where he served as cupbearer to the gods. The contrast seen here between the boy&#8217;s soft skin and the bird&#8217;s rugged feathers enhances the story\u2019s theme of innocence in the grip of cosmic cunning. With suave, psychologically intense works like this one, Bertel Thorvaldsen influenced a generation of Neoclassical sculptors.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_143331.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_143331.jpg\" alt=\"Lunch\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Lunch<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">The museum had a small cafeteria with limited selections of cold food. I decided to try out this Asian salad bowl, which turned out to be great. In particular, the Mochi in the upper-right brought back a taste that I had been missing for years.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-10\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8473.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8473.jpg\" alt=\"The Sun Vow\" \/><\/a><\/br>The Sun Vow<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Hermon Atkins MacNeil.American, 1866-1947<\/br>The Sun Vow, modeled 1898-99, cast Ca. 1925.Bronze cast by Roman Bronze Works, White Plains, New York<\/br>With grace and confidence, an Indian boy aims his arrow directly into the sun. His teacher squints to judge whether the shot\u2019s precision will earn the young archer official passage into manhood. The detailed hairstyles, headdress, and moccasins attest to sculptor Hermon MacNeil\u2019s knowledge of Native American costume. Meanwhile, the smooth curves of the nude bodies, echoing the elegant form of the raised bow, reveal admiration for the graceful naturalism of Auguste Rodin\u2019s bronzes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8466Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8466Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Orphans\" \/><\/a><\/br>The Orphans<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">L\u00e9on-Bazile Perrault\u2019s seductive image of a beggar-girl holding a baby continues  a tradition of 19th-century realist art that stresses the plight of the poor and dispossessed.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8467Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8467Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell\" \/><\/a><\/br>Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Sir William Beechey.English, 1753-1839<\/br>Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, ca. 1838.Oil on canvas<\/br>This formally dressed British nobleman sits in his grand study, yet the colonnade curiously opens onto the mountainous wilds of Australia. By including the distant mountains, the portrait painter William Beechey highlights the sitter\u2019s crowning achievement. As surveyor-general of the British colony of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell explored the Australian interior and mapped the Darling and Glenelg Rivers. Beechey further commends Mitchell by placing the title page of his book on the writing table. Called Survey of Glenelg, it features Mitchell\u2019s map of New South Wales.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8457.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8457.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/a><\/br>Holiday<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By American born artist Christopher Ries in 1998<\/br>Notice the near-perfect transparency of this sculpture. The surface has one small area of decorative cutting, which is reflected throughout the sculpture. The polished sides act like facing mirrors, creating additional internal forms by means of \u201chinge reflections\u201d that bounce light back and forth endlessly, allowing Ries to essentially sculpt with light. The result is a highly simple sculptural form that is deeply complex in its expression.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8458.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8458.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/a><\/br>Holiday<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By American born artist Christopher Ries in 1998<\/br>Notice the near-perfect transparency of this sculpture. The surface has one small area of decorative cutting, which is reflected throughout the sculpture. The polished sides act like facing mirrors, creating additional internal forms by means of \u201chinge reflections\u201d that bounce light back and forth endlessly, allowing Ries to essentially sculpt with light. The result is a highly simple sculptural form that is deeply complex in its expression.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_151256.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_151256.jpg\" alt=\"Glassware\" \/><\/a><\/br>Glassware<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8479.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8479.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha Sheltered by a Naga\" \/><\/a><\/br>Buddha Sheltered by a Naga<\/br>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Cambodian, Khmer Empire,.1181-1218 C.E<\/br>Stone<\/br>After the Buddha attained enlightenment, he spent several weeks contemplating his newfound awareness. When a downpour threatened to interrupt his meditation, the naga Muchilinda, a cobra deity, sheltered him from the weeklong monsoon. As depicted here, the Buddha maintains his serene expression while the naga energetically splays his hood overhead. Associated with healing and protection, nagas inspired an independent cult of veneration in the Khmer Empire during King Jayavarman VII&#8217;s rule, when this sculpture was made.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-10\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8473.jpg\" alt=\"The Sun Vow\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8466Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Orphans\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8467Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8457.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8458.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/IMG_20210613_151256.jpg\" alt=\"Glassware\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8479.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha Sheltered by a Naga\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-10, #splide-thumb-10 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8473.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8473.jpg\" alt=\"The Sun Vow\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>The Sun Vow<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Hermon Atkins MacNeil.American, 1866-1947<\/br>The Sun Vow, modeled 1898-99, cast Ca. 1925.Bronze cast by Roman Bronze Works, White Plains, New York<\/br>With grace and confidence, an Indian boy aims his arrow directly into the sun. His teacher squints to judge whether the shot\u2019s precision will earn the young archer official passage into manhood. The detailed hairstyles, headdress, and moccasins attest to sculptor Hermon MacNeil\u2019s knowledge of Native American costume. Meanwhile, the smooth curves of the nude bodies, echoing the elegant form of the raised bow, reveal admiration for the graceful naturalism of Auguste Rodin\u2019s bronzes.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8466Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8466Q10.jpg\" alt=\"The Orphans\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>The Orphans<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">L\u00e9on-Bazile Perrault\u2019s seductive image of a beggar-girl holding a baby continues  a tradition of 19th-century realist art that stresses the plight of the poor and dispossessed.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8467Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8467Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Sir William Beechey.English, 1753-1839<\/br>Portrait of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, ca. 1838.Oil on canvas<\/br>This formally dressed British nobleman sits in his grand study, yet the colonnade curiously opens onto the mountainous wilds of Australia. By including the distant mountains, the portrait painter William Beechey highlights the sitter\u2019s crowning achievement. As surveyor-general of the British colony of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell explored the Australian interior and mapped the Darling and Glenelg Rivers. Beechey further commends Mitchell by placing the title page of his book on the writing table. Called Survey of Glenelg, it features Mitchell\u2019s map of New South Wales.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8457.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8457.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8458.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8458.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday\" \/><\/a><\/br>Holiday<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">By American born artist Christopher Ries in 1998<\/br>Notice the near-perfect transparency of this sculpture. The surface has one small area of decorative cutting, which is reflected throughout the sculpture. The polished sides act like facing mirrors, creating additional internal forms by means of \u201chinge reflections\u201d that bounce light back and forth endlessly, allowing Ries to essentially sculpt with light. The result is a highly simple sculptural form that is deeply complex in its expression.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/IMG_20210613_151256.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/IMG_20210613_151256.jpg\" alt=\"Glassware\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Glassware<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8479.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8479.jpg\" alt=\"Buddha Sheltered by a Naga\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Buddha Sheltered by a Naga<\/br><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: smaller;text-align: left\">Cambodian, Khmer Empire,.1181-1218 C.E<\/br>Stone<\/br>After the Buddha attained enlightenment, he spent several weeks contemplating his newfound awareness. When a downpour threatened to interrupt his meditation, the naga Muchilinda, a cobra deity, sheltered him from the weeklong monsoon. As depicted here, the Buddha maintains his serene expression while the naga energetically splays his hood overhead. Associated with healing and protection, nagas inspired an independent cult of veneration in the Khmer Empire during King Jayavarman VII&#8217;s rule, when this sculpture was made.<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"Town_Point_Park\">Town Point Park<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Speaking of Norfolk, one would most likely associate the city with the largest naval base in the world, with navy ships lined up throughout the banks of Elizabeth River. So before I headed home, I decided to drive to the nearby Town Point Park and caught a glimpse of it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8509.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8509.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Town Point Park\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8510.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8510.jpg\" width=\"49%\" alt=\"Town Point Park\" \/><\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8511.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DSC_8511.jpg\" width=\"51.85%\" alt=\"Town Point Park\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0066.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-m\/DJI_0066.jpg\" width=\"46.05%\" alt=\"Overlooking Town Point Park\" \/><\/a><\/br>Town Point Park<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Urban green space on the waterfront, with family picnics scattered around.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>While it&#8217;s not directly next to Naval Station Norfolk which housed many aircraft carriers, there were a few repair yards along Elizabeth River for me to catch a few glimpses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-11\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8488Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8488Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at BAE Systems Norfolk\" \/><\/a><\/br>Naval Ships at BAE Systems Norfolk<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8489Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8489Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk\" \/><\/a><\/br>Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk<\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8490Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8490Q10.jpg\" alt=\"USS Bataan\" \/><\/a><\/br>USS Bataan<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">LHD-5, amphibious assault ship.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8491.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8491.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Portsmouth\" \/><\/a><\/br>Naval Ships at NASSCO Portsmouth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-11\">\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8488Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at BAE Systems Norfolk\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8489Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8490Q10.jpg\" alt=\"USS Bataan\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DSC_8491.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Portsmouth\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\nJavascript not enabled, unable to display slideshow.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#splide-major-11, #splide-thumb-11 { display:none; }\n<\/style>\n<details>\n<summary>Click here to display photos of the slideshow<\/summary>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8488Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8488Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at BAE Systems Norfolk\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Naval Ships at BAE Systems Norfolk<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8489Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8489Q10.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8490Q10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8490Q10.jpg\" alt=\"USS Bataan\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>USS Bataan<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">LHD-5, amphibious assault ship.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8491.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8491.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Portsmouth\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Naval Ships at NASSCO Portsmouth<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<\/details>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DSC_8492_DSC_8508-17.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DSC_8492_DSC_8508-17.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth River from Town Point Park\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/br>Elizabeth River from Town Point Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--\nIt's surprising that I checked and found no restrictions flying a drone directly over Elizabeth River, given its proximity to many of the naval ships. So I launched my drone and did myself a tour of Elizabeth River, until it ran out of signal range about a mile south from where I was.\n\n[caption width=\"605\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0014_DJI_0023-10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0014_DJI_0023-10.jpg\" alt=\"Drone Overlooking Elizabeth River\" \/><\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0025_DJI_0036-12.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0025_DJI_0036-12.jpg\" alt=\"Drone Overlooking Elizabeth River near Berkley Bridge\" \/><\/a><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0047_DJI_0057-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0047_DJI_0057-11.jpg\" alt=\"Drone Overlooking Elizabeth River near BAE Shipyards\" \/><\/a><\/br>Drone Overlooking Elizabeth River<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Berkley Bridge, and BAE Shipyards.<\/span>[\/caption]\n\n\n\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-major-12\">\n\n\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0037.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0037.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk\" \/><\/a><\/br>Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0044.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0044.jpg\" alt=\"USS Leyte Gulf\" \/><\/a><\/br>USS Leyte Gulf<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">CG-55, cruiser.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0046.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0046.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships\" \/><\/a><\/br>Naval Ships<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">USS Vicksburg (CG-69) before USS Chesapeake (FFG-64) on the right, USS Tortuga (LSD-46) on the left.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0058.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0058.jpg\" alt=\"USS Tortuga\" \/><\/a><\/br>USS Tortuga<\/br><span style=\"font-size: small;\">LSD-46, dock landing ship.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0040.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0040.jpg\" alt=\"Norfolk Waterside\" \/><\/a><\/br>Norfolk Waterside<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0064.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0064.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Norfolk from Elizabeth River\" \/><\/a><\/br>Downtown Norfolk from Elizabeth River<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0059.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0059.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth River\" \/><\/a><\/br>Elizabeth River<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0061.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0061.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth River\" \/><\/a><\/br>Elizabeth River<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/DJI_0060.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails\/DJI_0060.jpg\" alt=\"Ocean Yacht Marina\" \/><\/a><\/br>Ocean Yacht Marina<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"splide\" id=\"splide-thumb-12\">\n\n\n<div class=\"splide__track\">\n\n\n<ul class=\"splide__list\">\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DJI_0037.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships at NASSCO Norfolk\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DJI_0044.jpg\" alt=\"USS Leyte Gulf\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DJI_0046.jpg\" alt=\"Naval Ships\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DJI_0058.jpg\" alt=\"USS Tortuga\" \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n\n<li class=\"splide__slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/202106\/thumbnails-s\/DJI_0040.jpg\" alt=\"Norfolk Waterside\" 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With traffic jam in I64 tunnel and a few errands here and there, it took me another 4.5 hours to get back home in Northern DC suburb. But at least I enjoyed my cruise along US17, my favorite country road in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second weekend of June 2021. With summer calling, I decided to make an overnight trip to Virginia Beach for some typical summer fun. 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