As anyone who's ever done so knows, moving is a giant pain.
Now imagine moving millions of items, each of them delicate, unique, priceless and old. Like, two to three centuries old.
That process is underway now at Colonial Williamsburg, the Virginia living history town that is marking its own 100th birthday as America celebrates its 250th birthday.
"We've been packing for the past two years so we’re excited to start the (moving) process," said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology. "The goal is to move the entire collection with nothing lost and nothing broken – even things that are already broken."
"The entire collection" means millions of items excavated over the last century, from pieces of plates and intact bottles and bricks, household items and even bits of food from centuries ago.
