In April, young guests can tour the galleries and create a souvenir to take home through these programs:

Unless otherwise noted, the programs meet at the grand staircase.

Guests can learn about cultural influences transmitted through decorative arts and folk art by early immigrants to the colonies during the program, Migrating Cultures, 5 p.m. Fridays, March 20, 27, May 1, 8 and 15, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. On this 45-minute guided tour learn about 18th-century European immigrant groups, why they moved to the colonies and where they settled. Trace their migrations through the objects they brought with them or produced in America. Examine decorative details on furniture, paintings, musical instruments and more to learn about the immigrant groups that made them.

Programs and exhibitions at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Entrance to Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums is through the Public Hospital of 1773 at 326 W. Francis St. For information call (757) 220-7724.

Bassett Hall, the Williamsburg home of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, will host a variety of programs this spring. Abby’s Art returns 10 a.m.-noon Thursdays, April 9, 16 and 23. Young guests can try their hand at making a theorem.

“That the Future May Learn from the Past” offers an opportunity for guests to meet Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, the man who helped Mr. Rockefeller restore Williamsburg. Guests will join Dr. Goodwin in the Bassett Hall garden where he reflects on the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, his association with John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his own fascinating life and career at Bruton Parish Church, the College of William and Mary, and within the community of Williamsburg. 10 a.m.-noon Saturdays, March 21, 28, April 4, 11 and 18.

A Bassett Hall interpreter will lead guests on Garden Tours at Bassett Hall through the Rockefeller gardens, sharing stories about the family's visits to Williamsburg in the spring and fall in the 1930s and ‘40s, and about the flora and fauna they loved to see here. Learn about the creative landscape architect that designed the gardens at Bassett Hall and about the events that unfolded under the "Great Oak." 10 a.m. Wednesdays, March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.

A two-story 18th-century frame house near Colonial Williamsburg's Capitol, Bassett Hall is set on a 585-acre tract of woodlands. In addition to the home, the property includes a teahouse and three original outbuildings: a smokehouse, kitchen and dairy.

Bassett Hall is located at 522 E. Francis St.

A Colonial Williamsburg admissions ticket or Good Neighbor Card provides access to enjoy these programs at Colonial Williamsburg’s Art Museums and Bassett Hall.

Colonial Williamsburg museum interpreter Ed Way portrays the Rev. W.A.R. Goodwin during the program, “That the Future May Learn from the Past” this spring at Bassett Hall. To obtain this image, contact Penna Rogers at (757) 220-7121 or at progers@cwf.org.

Established in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and operates the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia as a town-sized living history museum, telling the inspirational stories of our nation’s founding men and women. Within the restored and reconstructed buildings, historic interpreters, attired as colonial men and women from slaves to shopkeepers to soldiers, relate stories of colonial Virginia society and culture – stories of our journey to become Americans – while historic trades people research, demonstrate and preserve the 18th-century world of work and industry. As Colonial Williamsburg interprets life in the time of the American Revolution guests interact with history through “Revolutionary City®” – a dramatic live street theater presentation.

Williamsburg is located in Virginia’s Tidewater region, 20 minutes from Newport News, within an hour’s drive of Richmond and Norfolk, and 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64. For more information about Colonial Williamsburg, call 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg’s Web site at www.history.org.

Media Contact:
Penna Rogers
(757) 220-7121