But word expert Charles Funk says that early writer could not explain where the name started.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

But the nickname did not become famous until the early nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

You have all those things here." The three million visitors who fill the streets of Williamsburg every year are immersed not only in early American life but in the struggle of a small, new country to find its own identity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03