Our family loves history. We love to read encyclopedias, historical fiction, myths and legends. We love to watch period films. We recently had the pleasure of visiting the Historic Settlement at Jamestown outside of Williamsburg, Virginia. Stepping back in time to the year 1607, my children got to frolic around a Powhatan Indian village, board two ships that brought English settlers and merchants across the Atlantic, and explore an English settlement. They made tools out of rock and animal bone, loaded and pretended to fire a swivel gun from the side of a ship, and watched a settler make meat and fruit pies. The got to see history come to life, be a part of it, live it – if just for a day.