Williamsburg At Dawn

Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the Aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoiled by a season in London; Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and initially thinks of himself as a Tory; and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother. But we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy playing their roles not as historical figures but as men. We see de Kalb's gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. We penetrate to the swamp-encircled camp which was Marion's stronghold on the Peedee. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette, which ended in Cornwallis's unlucky stand at Yorktown. Dawn's Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.

George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.

Volume 5 of The Williamsburg Series. This is the adventures of the twins Calvert and Camilla Scott from the First World War through 1934. Both of them go overseas, Camilla to act as nurse's aid in the hospitals run by her cousins in London and Gloucestershire. Calvert to serve briefly on the crew of a big gun. Chiefly it is Camilla's story, her futile love for a Frenchman; her involvement in the stormy passions of Jenny and the American who - with Calvert - had managed to survive the destruction of the gun crew, and who nearly lost his life thereafter. The threads of previous stories are fitted into place, gathering momentum, seeming to build up into a love story between the duke's daughter and the poor mechanic. And in the last quarter, death and disaster; a brief interlude between Camilla and a young Nazi; and the story ends with two matings, and the build-up for World War II.

Artist's Reference Photos: The Restored Colonial Area of the City of Williamsburg, VA If you love the restored colonial district of the City of Williamsburg, Virginia, and if you are an artist looking for strong reference photos, this book is for you! This book over 80 full-color photographs that provide strong visual interpretation of the exterior and interior of the governor's palace for the artists to use fully as a reference for their sketching, illustrations, and painting efforts. This book is made up of photographs taken between 2015 and 2018 by the author / photographer's efforts of documenting architecture in the restored colonial area within the City of Williamsburg, Virginia. During this period, the photos may actually show small differences between the years as the non-profit foundation updated, improved, and added to the beautiful tourist setting. After dozens of trips to the City of Williamsburg, Virginia over decades, and untold numbers of visits to the restored area of the original colonial city, the collection grew to thousands of photos. The difference between these photographs and other photography of the area is these were taken specifically at certain artistic angles and viewpoints that would aesthetically enhance the view of the building or allow the artist to see details of the exteriors or interiors. The photographer's main purpose was to use the photographs as a basis for sketches and drawings for fine art illustrations and pen and ink drawings. Thus the photographs in this book showcase angles and views which the normal tourist or photographer may not have considered. The photographer used a Canon Rebel DSL 35mm camera set on automatic exposure and focus. These photo resources are excellent guides which artists are allowed to use as a basis for their own fine art illustrations of the beautiful restored buildings, streets, and venues. This book is one of a series of artists reference photos by the photographer of the restored colonial area inside the city of Williamsburg, Virginia (check Amazon for other books in this series!). This book and the photographer allows and encourages the fine artist purchasing this book to use any reference photo as a basis upon which to create their own fine art illustrations. Key Search Words for The Author/Artist's Books: Adult Coloring, Animals, animals, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, balance, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Books, biofeedback, body, brain, bumble bee butts, bees, blooming, bloomers, bugs, butterflies, calming, celebration, City of Williamsburg Virginia, co-artist, color, coloring books, colors, colour, colourful, colouring, colouring book, composition, crab, creation, de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, Drawing, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, family history, family lineage, family surnames, fauna, feathers aflying, fish, flora, forest, forgotten places, genealogy research, gratitude, growl, Hearts A'Fire, illustration, imagination, jellyfish, joy, Kaleidoscope, lobster, love, magical, Mandala, meditate, meditation, mermaids, motivation, mystical, mystical creatures, nature, ocean, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, peace, pen and ink, photo-bombing, photobomb, relax, relaxation, roar, sea, self, self-hypnosis, self-remembering, shading, shark, shipwreck, space, spirits, spiritual, state-of-being, strengths, sub-conscious, sugar skulls, tangles, tantalizing, technique, therapy, tropical, undersea, universe, valentine, well-being, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area, wisdom, Zen, Zendala, Zentangles

“An utterly absorbing account of one of history’s most momentous battles” (Forbes) that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power—from acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review). No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, took a radical step to combat the Union blockade, building an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project, and, in panicky desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret. The ship hurried south from Brooklyn, only to arrive to find the Merrimack had already sunk half the Union fleet—and would be back to finish the job. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a standstill, and, many believe, saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the fight spread, Great Britain—the foremost sea power of the day—ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended and the naval future opened. Richly illustrated with photos, maps, and engravings, Iron Dawn “renders all previous accounts of the encounter between the Monitor and the Merrimack as obsolete as wooden war ships” (The Dallas Morning News). Richard Snow brings to vivid life the tensions of the time in this “lively tale of science, war, and clashing personalities” (The Wall Street Journal).

If you love to color colonial architecture from the nation's revolutionary city capital in the Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area and the Historic Restoration district, this book is a definite 'must buy!' If you love to color the holiday decorations, you can't wait to purchase this book! Historically, the colonists did not decorate for the holidays as Americans do today. But, in keeping with the guidelines of the local building codes of the area, residents can decorate for the holidays, but are only allowed to use natural materials that could be found or were present at the time of the early revolutionary era. The amazing wreath designs are stunning in their simplicity and variety of beautiful materials. This coloring book also has a companion resource book available via the author's Etsy store where buyers can view the original full-color photographs to resource the colors and more details to the materials in each wreath (etsy.com/people/DawnDBoyer) The book is filled with 50+ Gray Scaled Photographs of the 2016 Holiday Wreathes and D�cor you will find if you visit the area. This is one of four volumes of Gray Scale photos that concentrate on Holiday Wreathes and D�cor. There are at least two creative ways you can use the illustrations in this book and the other three volumes: As a Coloring Book - pull the pages out, get out your crayons and colored pencils, and 'go to town' in adding your interpretation of what materials the colonists used if they were inclined to decorate their windows and doors during the holiday season. As a Scavenger Game - look through the book and see if you can identify the location of all the illustrations throughout the book. Mark the location page with the longitude and latitude coordinates. Buy more books for your friends and family and see who can identify all the locations of the structures in the book first! Details about the book: ** Non-perforated pages (you can use an craft knife or razor to remove them) ** Glue-bound spine ** Pages are 8.5" x 11" with an approximate 1/2 inch margin around the photographs; paper weight is the thickness of standard paper-back books; some wetter media may bleed through the paper (test first, back with cardboard or plastic!) ** Two pages of pre-views of drawings in the book should be available on Amazon's "Look Between the Covers" function to see the types of illustrations in the book, as well as on the front and back covers** Single-Pages - all the illustrations have blank pages on the back side so you don't have to worry about your 'wetter' media ruining any images on the other side KEY SEARCH TERMS FOR DAWN BOYER'S BOOKS ON AMAZON: Adult Coloring Book, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Book, bugs, butterflies, co-artist, City of Williamsburg Virginia, color, colonial, Coloring Book, colors, colour, colouring, colouring book, colours, [email protected], de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, doodles, Drawing, drawings, hearts, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, fauna, feathers, Feathers A'Flying, fish, flora, forest, hidden animals, hearts, Hearts A'Fire, Illustration, imagination, Kaleidoscope, magical, mandala, mermaids, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, pen and ink, restored buildings, revolutionary city, sea, shading, shipwreck, sugar skulls, tangles, tantalizing, tropical, undersea, valentine, Virginia historic district, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area, wreathes, holiday d�cor

When people start disappearing, Ashton is compelled to discover if the tales of dragons are true. She may be labeled as crazy as her grandfather, but she must unravel the mystery of her birthright.