Celebrate Thanksgiving like the Pilgrims

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Celebrate Thanksgiving Colonial-style at Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 24-26, with a "Foods & Feasts" event. You'll learn how food was gathered, preserved and prepared by Virginia's colonists and by the Powhatan Indians.

The museum is open daily year-round. Jamestown Settlement is located on State Route 31, just southwest of Williamsburg. Details at (888) 593-4682 or www.historyisfun.org.

At nearby Colonial Williamsburg, Thanksgiving Day meals are already sold out at the Williamsburg Inn, King's Arm Tavern and Christiana Campbell's Tavern, but reservations are still available for an 18th century-style feast at the James Shields Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street. Call (800) 447-8679 for details.

Nearby, in downtown Charlottesville, a Jeffersonian Thanksgiving Festival takes place Nov. 18-20 and on Nov. 25, including concerts and dancing to period music, Revolutionary War encampments, and re-enactors debating events of the era. Details at www.jeffersonthanksgiving.org or (434) 249-4032.