“The hands are the cutting edge of the mind,” cultural historian Jacob Bronowski once observed. In this series of reflective walks through the Historic Trades at Colonial Williamsburg, we seek to regain the wisdom of skilled hand work to a world where it has almost wholly disappeared. How does the human mind suffer when the hands have no voice? In this first series of three meetings, we will visit sites representing the fundamental crafts of Food, Clothes, and Shelter.