One of the perks of teaching at a small university is that everyone knows each other. So when the usual professor couldn't take a group of students on the Thanksgiving trip around colonial Virginia, the lovely travel study coordinator turned to us, the new-sans-children-newlywed professors: "Want to ditch your original Thanksgiving plans and host a ragtag group of misfits for a free trip to Williamsburg?" she said (in so many words). And that's how...
