by gwffoundation | Jun 23, 2021 | Historic Kenmore, Lewis Family, Lives & Legacies
Visitors to Kenmore’s Drawing Room may have noticed an unusual pairing of glassware and ceramic pieces displayed on the gaming table – a beautiful, air-twist stem wine glass sitting next to a Westerwald pottery jug. At first glance, this small vignette may...
by gwffoundation | Feb 22, 2021 | George Washington, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Washington in the World
An Essay of a New and Compact Map, Containing the Known Parts of the Terrestrial Globe by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was published in 1750 when George Washington was 18-years-old. Credit: Wikipedia. Ferry Farm was a unique place to live in the mid-1700s. Situated where...
by gwffoundation | Apr 24, 2019 | Lives & Legacies, Natural History
With hindsight, the events of history often seem inevitable. America was destined for independence from Britain. All colonists were patriots who saw themselves as a nation and a people separate from the mother country. This was absolutely not the case. Colonists’...
by gwffoundation | Aug 31, 2016 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Colonial American. Think about that term. What does it mean to you? It refers to citizens of the American colonies prior to the Revolution. In the minds of many of us in the present-day United States, however, it might denote a unique American identity, probably...
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...
