EASTERN USA & EASTERN CANADA
Travelling Well Includes…
• Filmed narratives, exclusively produced for Tauck by filmmakers Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan, feature new insights based on themes from their films, from the Civil War to the National Parks
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Early admission & behind-the-scenes experience at the National Archives • TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Private presentation on slavery & plantation life by Dr. Leni Sorensen • TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Perspectives shared by Civil War historian & author Mark Howell • An archaeologist’s insights into Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in the Americas • Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted • 22 meals, gratuities to local guides, taxes, service charges, admission fees & porterage
3. AMISH LIFE & GETTYSBURG Travel through rolling Pennsylvania farmland to Lancaster County for a guided tour that reveals the cultural traditions of the Amish people, steeped in centuries past, and lunch. Continue on to Gettysburg National Military Park for a visit to the amazing interpretive centre, which includes the film “A New Birth of Freedom” narrated by Morgan Freeman; the massive Cyclorama painting, which literally surrounds visitors with a magnificent visual of the fury of Pickett’s Charge and brings vividly to life the sights and sounds of the battles that raged here on 01 – 03 July 1863; and the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War, featuring 12 exhibit galleries that contain artefacts and interactive displays. At our dessert reception after dinner this evening, a storyteller recounts the harrowing experience of civilians trapped in the town of Gettysburg during the ferocious fighting. Meals BLD
4. HARPERS FERRY / BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS A morning drive with a Gettysburg expert takes you through some of the battlefields – now eerily peaceful – to view pivotal sites and hear stories such as the defence of Little Round Top, the “Killer Angels” and Pickett’s Charge, both courageous and futile. More than 50,000 men on both sides were killed, wounded or missing at Gettysburg; about 6,000 lie in the national cemetery here, which Lincoln dedicated with his famous address later that year. Travel on to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, with a Ken Burns film vignette that sets up your visit to the site of John Brown’s failed 1859 raid on the town’s federal arsenal, where the abolitionist was captured and most of his 21-man “army” were killed. Later, ride the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the gorgeous Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park; stay overnight at Big Meadows Lodge or Skyland Resort inside the park. Meals BLD
5. MONTICELLO AND CHARLOTTESVILLE The Civil War was fought in over 10,000 places, the majority of them in the South; foraging armies swept across American farms and burned American towns, and homes became headquarters and hospitals. Travel today to Charlottesville for a visit to author, statesman, scientist and third US President Thomas Jefferson’s beloved Monticello, the hilltop house he
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designed on the principles of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. As you explore the house, plantation and grounds, you’ll observe that the realities of plantation life did not always fit comfortably with the founding father’s principles of equality and liberty. After lunch, featuring colonial fare and servers in 18th-century period attire at the historic Michie Tavern, visit the University of Virginia’s landmark Rotunda and Grounds, described by its designer, Thomas Jefferson, as an “academical village.” You’ll end the afternoon with a Tauck Exclusive: a lively private presentation on “Slavery, the Plantation and the Civil War” by Dr. Leni Sorensen, scholar, living history interpreter, and African American Research Historian for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. Your day ends in Charlottesville; the evening is free to spend as you please, with dinner at your leisure at the hotel. Meals BLD
PENNSYLVANIA
Lancaster County
Gettysburg MARYLAND Harpers Ferry VIRGINIA
Shenandoah National Park
Charlottesville VIRGINIA Richmond Jamestown Williamsburg Maximum Elevation: 4,000 ft. WEST
Mount Vernon
Washington, DC DELAWARE
Philadelphia NEW
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