Terry, I downloaded a very high-res version of the photo, and I'm almost sure that the group of boys and men are playing an earlier form of baseball. Hope this helps. Martha Katz-Hyman Curator Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Williamsburg, Virginia On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Terry Meyers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks for the several replies about the group(s) taught by > President Dawson…. Dawson was supportive of religious education for > blacks locally and helped raise funds for a charity school in Maryland that > admitted blacks; it’s striking that in one instance he refers to the > College’s enslaved people as “persons belonging to the College,” not > “slaves” or “servants,” the usual euphemism. All that suggests to me a > kind of ecumenism that supports what I see as language that is clear in any > case. > > And now for something completely different…… > > NYPL has just digitized a massive amount of material, some of it > photographs relating to Virginia: > > > http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5Broot-collection%5D=5261fd50-c52e-012f-85ec-58d385a7bc34&keywords=virginia#/?scroll=3 > > It includes a view of the Williamsburg courthouse. > > > http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-b90a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 > > I think I see one or more men playing musical instruments on the > courthouse steps, and it looks like some kind of game, maybe a ball game, > going on to the side. Can anyone figure out what the game might be? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, College of William and > Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 23187 757-221-3932 > > http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ > > http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html > ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— > > > > Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?....Well, we can't > afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. > > --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers." > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html