by gwffoundation | Jul 22, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Chances are you haven’t spent much time thinking about chicken digestive tracts. This is normal. Here at George Washington’s Ferry Farm, however, the topic actually comes up from time to time. More than once we archaeologists have found ceramic artifacts that have...
by gwffoundation | Jul 20, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
George Washington’s Boyhood Home at Ferry Farm offers a wonderful blend of woods, fields, wetlands, and riverfront. Fox, groundhogs, snakes, lizards, turtles, and deer make Ferry Farm their home. In the meadows, bushy heads of grass seeds provide an important...
by gwffoundation | Jul 15, 2015 | Colonial Grossology, Lives & Legacies
Editor’s Note: Looking back in time, people’s personal hygiene, fashion choices, medical treatments, and more sometimes look, at the very least, bizarre, if not outright disgusting. When confronted with these weird or gross practices, our first reaction can be to...
by gwffoundation | Jul 13, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Scenes from the Demonstration Garden at George Washington’s Ferry Farm on a peaceful summer morning. The garden contains a variety of colonial-era plants that would have been grown by the Washington family like tobacco, corn, and squash. There are also modern...
by gwffoundation | Jul 8, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Scenes from this past weekend’s Independence Day celebration at George Washington’s Ferry...
