Summer has arrived in town, and it is a scorcher. It seems that summer in Williamsburg has always been warm and slow paced. Henry Everett took this photograph of Williamsburg at the turn of the 20th century. In the 1980s his daughter sent a small collection of his photographs to the Meekins Library. This one shows a young boy in a hat looking directly at the camera. In the back we see a man in a straw boater at the lower end of Nash Hill Road with the East Main Street Bridge at right and the sawmill at front left, behind the tree. Who was the bare-foot boy and where was he going? And what about the gentleman who is looking on? Do you know?
Thanks to historian Eric Weber for the location information. Daria D’Arienzo, Meekins Archivist. #throwbackthursday; #tbt.
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