St John's has a fabulous and impressive history... for me it's a sunset location for yoga, in a Parish Hall that feels rather like home.
So the history: As tensions between Virginia and England grew in the 1770s, the assembly of the Second Virginia Convention was moved from the capital of Williamsburg to Richmond. St. John’s, the largest available public building in the City, was the site of the March 1775 meeting attended by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, and other prominent Virginians who heard Patrick Henry’s stirring words, “Give me liberty or give me death.
