Yorktown Days: How Independence Was Fun

Or Realizing I Grew up in a Tom Clancy Novel

“What’s going on here today?” a hip-looking dude with an English accent asked me on the morning of October 19, 2022. We were both standing in the Yorktown Arts Foundation building at the intersection of Main Street and Church Street in Yorktown, Virginia. He was there with his wife. I was there by myself, browsing the local artwork, waiting for the para…