in the town, williamsburg and throughout. local women, especially lee felt a fierce loyalty to traditions, both real and imagined. meanwhile, production of history books shifted to the northeast to boston, new york and, philadelphia and minimized role of jamestown and virginia in establishing america's founding principles. and this was both a natural outgrowth of regional bias and a more curatorial decision. virginia's past was no longer to laud at the national level as it had seemed to be prior to the civil war and out of this post bellum environment grew the lost cause mythology. but a variety of women's associations dedicated to rehabilitating and promoting the image of the past. they believed in and held dear. that past placed virginia its institutions at the heart of the american experience. and one such group championed cynthia coleman, lucy bagby and mary galt was the association for the preservation of virginia antiquities or founded in 1889. the degree which the women of the apvma supported lost cause varied by indiv

and he throws these parties in, like gentrifying indie sleaze, williamsburg.he encourages to wear, you know, quote unquote, hip hop fashion. and these are people who don't really. again, there's not i don't think there's, anything wrong with like trying out different styles or whatever. but this this isn't people are doing they're wearing essentially like costume to make fun of other people. and the washington post article even says that some people up in blackface. so i think that really kind of gives you a clue of of what's going there. but i think that i think it's very to kind of imagine this today and a sense because the past i think that the sort of public discourse around race in the past has been probably better than it was the y2k era. and so i think that i don't know i felt that it was important to kind of preserve this insane stuff that kind of i didn't want that to be forgotten. right. i wanted that i wanted there to be some kind of documentation of this and little place where it seems like you want to do that and where you also see similarly, thes

those buried in williamsburg, virginia elite virginia episcopalians did not usually bury family members in churchyards church burials indicated that a person had no land code and belonged to a lower class. moreover, home burials that once a state was holy ground like a churchyard and that one wanted to be resurrected with one's kin. in the days after washington's death, the united states congress issued mourning that urged all americans to mourn for washington. members of congress called on americans wear black armbands for 30 days. they set aside december 26 as the day for washington's funeral, which was to be in philadelphia's german church, the largest church in that city. they set aside february second at washington's birthday as another day of national mourning for the public to engage in prayers, orations and additional funerals. congress also called for washington's corpse to be from mt. vernon and reinterred under the u.s. capitol. so the building itself would be infused with his virtuous presence and all could visit the site to experience the spiritual power of washington's ear