by gwffoundation | Jul 13, 2016 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
A carpet was recently installed in the Drawing Room at Historic Kenmore. In this video, Meghan Budinger, Aldrich Director of Curatorial Operations, tells us all about it. Follow The Rooms at Kenmore blog for more about the drawing room carpet and the final stages of...
by gwffoundation | Mar 21, 2016 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
Colonial Americans often played cards for leisure and enjoyment and one of the most popular card games of the period was Whist. In this video we show you how to play this game. You can read a bit about the history of playing cards themselves...
by gwffoundation | Feb 25, 2016 | Daily Life in the 1700s, Lives & Legacies
As modern people, we tend to assume the past is a foreign land where residents’ lives are alien to our own. Would the founding fathers balk at how we dither away our time? Or would they recognize that life without its moments of levity is foolish? Eighteenth century...
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...
