by gwffoundation | Aug 17, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
The Rude Mechanicals presented candlelight performances of William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline this past weekend at Historic...
by gwffoundation | Aug 10, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists spend much more of their time working to determine the significance of an object than actually finding the object through excavation. This analytical work is done in an archaeology lab. Before analysis can begin, the newly uncovered artifacts have to be...
by gwffoundation | Aug 5, 2015 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
Virginia celebrates a proud theatrical history. It boasts the first recorded performance of a play in all the colonies. It also claims the first permanent playhouse and the first evening of professional theatre. That first evening was in September of 1752 and was...
by gwffoundation | Jul 29, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
One of the aspects of a historian’s job is dealing with primary sources, the paper trail of history. The archives here at The George Washington Foundation contain primary sources that include letters, wills, land grants, court orders, military orders, bills and...
by gwffoundation | Jul 27, 2015 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists sometimes recreate technology from the past to understand how people lived. This is called experimental archaeology. Native American occupation of Ferry Farm left behind many artifacts including fire-cracked rocks. This video shows how those rock...
