Norman Fuss is an avocational historian and living history interpreter who, for the past forty years has focused on the history of the period of the American War for Independence. After retiring from a career as a chemical engineer and management consultant, he moved to Williamsburg, Virginia where he conducts guided tours for the Jamestown Yorktown Foundation and acts as a volunteer consultant for the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, opening in late 2016. He also serves as a subject matter expert for Colonial Williamsburg’s Electronic Field Trips. A frequent writer and speaker, he has published over two dozen articles on a variety of topics related to the Revolutionary War period.
Ten years in the planning and construction, the new fifty million dollar state of the art American Revolution Museum at Yorktown was officially dedicated in a thirteen day series of events celebrating each of the thirteen original states in the order in which they ratified our Constitution. From March 23 through April 4, 2017, daily […]
April in Virginia is regarded by many as the best month of the year. Sandwiched between the chilly bluster of March and the growing heat and humidity of May and June, April is characterized by warm but not hot days, cool but not cold nights, gentle breezes and gentle rains. There are, of course, exceptions. […]
Sometimes taking a closer look at an iconic and widely accepted primary source artifact can lead to unanticipated insights. And sometimes those unanticipated insights call for re-examination of long held beliefs. Such is the case of the watercolor of Yorktown viewed from Gloucester Point during the 1781 siege of Yorktown shown above.[1] For almost a […]
Billy Flora was cold. That was not surprising. He was crouched in the lee of a pile of shingles next to a burnt out building in the early hours of December 9, 1775, with a musket in his hands and a rime of ice forming in the marshes of the Great Dismal Swamp that lay […]
Go to any Revolutionary War period living history program or reenactment and you hear it again and again. “Huzzah for Great Washington and the Continental Congress!” “Huzzah for good King George and Parliament!” Huzzah this and Huzzah that all day. If our forefathers could come back to one of these events, they would be mightily […]
