by gwffoundation | May 27, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Shakespeare on the Lawn at Kenmore returns this June with four performances of the popular drama, King Lear, performed by The Fredericksburg Players and directed by Fred Franklin. King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most heart-breaking tragedies—the story of a father...
by gwffoundation | May 22, 2015 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Master Stonemason Ray Cannetti and his crew split large sandstone boulders into smaller pieces that will then be dressed into foundation stones for an interpretive replica of George Washington’s boyhood home soon to be constructed at Ferry Farm. The George...
by gwffoundation | May 18, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Nature shaped the lives of English colonists and enslaved Africans living and working at Kenmore Plantation 200 years ago. Over centuries, humans changed Kenmore’s natural world from a plantation setting into an urban green space. Yet, nature remains just outside the...
by gwffoundation | May 13, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Several months ago, Historic Kenmore concluded the refurnishing effort in the Dining Room. After painstaking research and scientific investigation, that room has been returned to a state that would be immensely familiar to Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis. It...
by gwffoundation | May 11, 2015 | Lives & Legacies, Natural History
Humans are an inescapable part of nature. It shapes us and we shape it. Most of us can see this dynamic relationship when looking back 200 years. It is easier to appreciate the centrality of nature in the lives of 18th century planters, farmers, and enslaved people...
by gwffoundation | Apr 30, 2015 | Civil War, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
As the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close, we are remembering the war at Kenmore, and its aftermath. Although Kenmore is best known as a house of the colonial period, it had quite a history during the Civil War. Visitors to Kenmore have long heard...
