Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Greim/Getty Images (John Greim/Getty Images) If you could go back and sit down to dinner in 1776, the scene would probably ...

If you could go back and sit down to dinner in 1776, the scene would probably look far more practical and lived-in than the polished Colonial Williamsburg reenactment most of us have in our minds. The ...