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Archaeology Is Not For The Faint Of Heart – But We Love It Anyway

Archaeology Is Not For The Faint Of Heart – But We Love It Anyway

by gwffoundation | Nov 15, 2024 | Archaeology, Behind the Scenes, Civil War, Ferry Farm, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Nature

A lot of people have told me that they want or wanted to become archaeologists.  I always find this flattering.  Yours truly was only in my single digits when I declared the same to my family and anyone who would listen.  After reading every National...
“With Double Its Weight of Vermin”: Bugs in George’s Bed

“With Double Its Weight of Vermin”: Bugs in George’s Bed

by gwffoundation | Apr 27, 2016 | Lives & Legacies

“I went in to the Bed as they call’d it when to my Surprize I found it to be nothing but a Little Straw—Matted together without Sheets or any thing else but only one Thread Bear blanket with double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice Fleas &c,” wrote 15-year-old...

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