by gwffoundation | Mar 27, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
The George Washington Foundation’s curators recently oversaw the hanging of portraits in Historic Kenmore’s Drawing Room. Portraits of Fielding and Betty Lewis painted by John Wollaston as well as of John Lewis and Fielding Lewis, Jr. painted by Charles...
by gwffoundation | Mar 25, 2015 | Colonial Grossology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, 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 | Mar 18, 2015 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
At George Washington’s Ferry Farm we’ve just wrapped up a ceramic mending project. We explain how and why we undertake these mending projects in this post. Our most recent effort focused on Westerwald stonewares owned by the Washington family. Stoneware is a...
by gwffoundation | Mar 12, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Editor’s Note: The behind-the-scenes tour mentioned at the end of this post and on the video’s end title is sold out. Today, we’re linking to a behind-the-scenes video on The George Washington Foundation’s YouTube channel. In the...
by gwffoundation | Mar 6, 2015 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
About a month ago on “Lives & Legacies,” we shared a gallery of photos showing snow-covered Historic Kenmore and George Washington’s Ferry Farm in years past. That post especially focused on snowy scenes of Kenmore. With snow from...
by gwffoundation | Feb 25, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
What do archaeologists do with the broken ceramic and glass artifacts after these objects have been excavated, cleaned, and catalogued? They are cool to look at but what do these little pieces actually tell us about the past? How can we use them to understand the...
