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It’s
not just a city tour:
IT’S SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY!
RICHMOND CITY TOUR
Saturday, July 28, 2007,
3:30-6:30 PM
Cost $25.00
PLT’s city tour was designed by members of its
Virginia Area chapter; the professional tour guide is a long-time
chapter member. You’ll see the Richmond that you would show your own
guests if you lived there.
The tour will be more than just the attractions and
landmarks. It will give our local members an opportunity to show off
the city in which they take so much pride, and to make you feel
welcome. Don’t miss it!
Virginia owns a unique place in U.S. history: it is
the home of Jamestown, the oldest permanent English settlement in
America. By that measure, Virginia is the first of the original
thirteen colonies, and colonial Virginians played a seminal role in
the formation of almost every value, custom, and practice that makes
America what it is today. (During all of 2007, Virginians will
celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of
Jamestown, giving visitors an experience that is literally
unprecedented!)
The capital of the Confederacy, Richmond presents a
microcosm of that piece of post-colonial American history that
determined once and for all that the United States would be “one
nation…indivisible.” The city—and the tour as well—also offers
poignant glimpses of the African American journey from Emancipation,
to the Civil Rights Act, to the present. If you are interested in
U.S. history as it applies to all Americans,
there is simply
nowhere else like Richmond.
You can start enjoying your tour before you even leave home: Get a
comfortable chair, hook your computer up to the Internet, click on
the links to the tour’s landmarks and attractions, and immerse
yourself in the history and culture you will experience. Each link
opens a different chapter of the great book that is Richmond—a book
that describes the history not just of a city, but of our nation.
Your hotel, the Omni Richmond, is located right in the Shockoe Slip
Historic District, only a block or two from the first attraction:
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