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A replica of the former chapel, St. Mary's City. |
I'm not sure what we were expecting. Perhaps the lesson here is to do a little bit of research before a proposed daytrip! But,
St. Mary's City was just not what we thought it was. Instead of a historical, yet working city, we found a Williamsburg-like experience--a sort of hands-on-history tour of one of the first settlements in the United States. (Actually it was a former capital of the Maryland colony.)
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Recreated barns and houses, St. Mary's City, MD. |
Here's the question I have for myself after the visit to St. Mary's City: why didn't I do some research? Why did we assume it was something it wasn't? We envisioned walking along a main street and eating lunch at a little restaurant. Instead, we found interpretive trails through replica buildings and footprints of other buildings marked off so we had a virtual sense of the former village. I'm not complaining here. I'm just blogging about this as a lesson: know where you are going! This sort of trip would be great if our parents were in town. It was the off-season sort of so we had the recreated settlement to ourselves mostly.
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A small graveyard attached to an old church,
overlooks the Chesapeake Bay. |
Still, I think we returned home thinking we wasted an afternoon. Weekends are so quick, so fleeting that a disappointing daytrip can make you feel that you didn't get the most out of your free time!
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