Karen Tani's post on May 1 as law day reminded me that I have a picture of a monument to the Common Law at Jamestown, which I've been meaning to post. It's inside the reconstructed church at Jamestown. Perhaps not insignificantly, this monument was put up on May 17, 1959 -- the year after President Eisenhower established May 1 as "law day." (The picture of the monument is not the best picture, obviously -- sorry about that. I was there late in the day and it was quite dark in the church.)
The tower of the original church is still there -- in fact, I used it as a trivia question recently. I guess this is beside the point of this post, but I'm not a huge fan of reconstructed buildings at historic sites. This one bothered me more than most; I'm not quite sure why. I wish they'd just left the church tower by itself rather than adding that building in the early twentieth century (at the four hundredth anniversary). Maybe sometime soon I'll be able to distinguish why I'm unhappy with this building.
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