by gwffoundation | Aug 18, 2016 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two posts inspired by this year’s Summer Olympics. This week, Archaeologist Mara Kaktins reflects on the connection fencing has created between her family and George Washington. Read our first Olympics-inspired post here. At our...
by gwffoundation | Aug 16, 2016 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
This past weekend was Shakespeare by Candlelight at Historic Kenmore! William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew was presented in eighteenth-century style on the Lawn at Kenmore on Friday and Saturday nights and, because of a thunderstorm, indoors on Sunday...
by gwffoundation | Aug 10, 2016 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Editor’s Note: This is the first of two posts inspired by this year’s Summer Olympics. This week, it’s an equestrian-inspired post from Archaeologist Laura Galke, who briefly looks at some of the ornaments found on 18th century horse tack. What an...
by gwffoundation | Aug 8, 2016 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, we learn how Stonemasons Ray Cannetti, Kevin Neito, and Robert Hall split and dressed Aquia sandstone into foundation stones for the Washington House interpretive replica at Ferry Farm. Learn about the special concrete cradle the foundation stones will...
by gwffoundation | Aug 3, 2016 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
We excavate hundreds of artifacts every day during the field season at George Washington’s Ferry Farm and occasionally one or two really stand out. For me, the most interesting artifacts uncovered during the past few years are fragments of a Bartmann Jug. The...
by gwffoundation | Jul 28, 2016 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
When we look at the history of Shakespeare in America the preference for his classic tragedies is obvious. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III are two of the three most-performed plays of the 18th century (George Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem rounded out this top...
