by gwffoundation | Nov 4, 2020 | Historic Kenmore, Lewis Family, Lives & Legacies
On walls of the Historic Kenmore’s drawing room hang two large portraits of a man and a woman. The man is an older gentleman in a serene outdoor setting, looking quite dignified and sober in a brownish knee-length jacket, knee breeches and long waistcoat. His...
by gwffoundation | Jul 3, 2017 | George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
“There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.” – Charles James Fox, letter to Edmund Burke, 24 January 1779. Quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (1997:41). “It is intolerable...
