A History Nerd's Summer: Weekend Shenanigans

Saturday was another early wake-up, archaeology (Very fun!! We found pieces of brick, pottery, nails, and glass!), and the rest of the day was freaking out over writing my journal, which I completed!! I wrote it on how we view our founding, debunking some myths, and analyzing what our glorified views say about us.

Today I slept in slightly and did laundry. After lunch and our background lecture, which introduced this week's theme, I headed to CW with some friends! Our theme this week is basically Southern Honor, so we watched some clips, including this lovely video that showed duels and what people got from them- satisfaction, as well as a clip from the HBO series Deadwood which showed the lower class/Western version of dueling- rough and tumble gouging aka taking eyeballs out of heads. I averted my eyes, because the article I read about it was enough.

CW was so much fun!! We walked through Merchant's Square, checked out some shops, and then headed into the Revolutionary City. The first shop we hit was the Prentis shop. Since I'd been there before, I took a few minutes to look around, then went outside to listen to some officers (Captain Innes from my earlier CW adventures and another guy) speak. The crowd around them dispersed, so they started on their way but stopped to ask me for the time. I told them I would 'check my sundial', and pulled out my phone. All my friends left the Prentis store to see me talking to the officers, telling them it was 4PM, and promptly chastised me with "We left you for five minutes." I think I'm officially the Lydia Bennett of our group. We continued through CW, stopping at the milliner's shop to see their lovely clothes and the Raleigh Tavern bakery for cold cider and baked goods. We waited outside for a little bit and caught the first few minutes of Captain Innes's rallying speech thing trying to enlist people. On our walk back we passed the green in front of the Governor's Palace and who was there but the Marquis, riding around on his horse!! I promptly freaked out, and all my friends laughed because they now know of my love of the Marquis de Lafayette. Another of my friends told him that in a couple years he needed to get the royal family out of France (French Revolution reference). He said that he would take her advice, then galloped off.