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| Fourth of July Celebration |
| Friday, July 4, 2008 |
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| Celebrate where Revolutionary War patriots once trod. Bring a picnic, family, and friends to the grounds of this historic site. Music, dancing, Revolutionary-War re-enactments, children's crafts and games, and tours through the magnificent house will be occurring. |
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| Cost: House tours will be discounted; grounds admission free |
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| "The French, the Indians, and the History and Archaeology of Québec" |
| Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
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In celebration of the 400th anniversary of watershed European settlements in North America, the University of Virginia is offering a Travel & Learn program to Canada to explore the roots of French settlement in Québec (1608). Leading the program is Jeffrey Hantman, University of Virginia professor and specialist on the North American, along with Dr. William Kelso, Director of Archaeology for APVA Preservation Virginia; William Moss, Chief Archaeologist for the City of Québec; and Canadian Historian Gilles Proulx.
We will follow the trails blazed by Samuel de Champlain and his fellow travelers, exploring the momentous consequences for Europeans and the native peoples they encountered during an era of competition for control of the “New World.” The program will include lecture, discussion, special access tours, and visits to Montreal and Ottawa.
This is the second in a series of programs offered by the University which examine the history and archaeology of European settlement in North America. The 2007 offering featured a fascinating look at new discoveries in the settlement of Jamestown (1607). The 2009 program will head to Santa Fe, New Mexico (Spanish charter 1609) to explore the beginnings of Spanish settlement in North America.
More information can be found here. |
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| Contact: | Telephone 1-800-346-2882 |
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| Summer History Camps at Smithfield Plantation |
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - Friday, August 8, 2008 |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:00p.m. |
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THE FOODS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY!
This is an excellent way for your child to learn history and have fun doing it while keeping busy during the summer.
The one-week sessions are for rising 3rd through 6th graders. Cost is $110 per child for one week, $200 oer child for two weeks. $10 discount for each additional family member attending. APVA members may apply a 15% discount to their total amount due.
Weeks 1 & 3. Food from 1565 (Native Americans and early settlers) through 1783 (end of the American Revolution). Explore foodways from the late woodland period through the Revolutionary War. Highlighted will be European contact with the Native Americans, changes brought about by the introduction of slavery, and the extension of Tidewater planter culture to Southwest Virginia.
Weeks 2 & 4. Foods from the end of the Revolutionary War to the present. Explore foodways during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Industrial and Agriculture Revolutions, World Wars 1 and 2 and how modern conveniences of today have changed food patterns. |
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| Summer Speaker Series, APVA Northern Neck Branch |
| Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Everyone is invited to attend the first of the Branch's annual APVA Summer Speaker Series.
This particular program will be presented by Lynn Padgett, and she will speak on eighteenth-century ladies garments.
Ever wonder exactly what over- and undergarments the ladies of that period had to wear, especially in the hot weather? Find out when Lynn presents her entertaining program.
Dress is casual, and, I am sure, more comfortable than in the eighteenth century. |
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| Cost: Just bring a covered dish of food to share |
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| Location: | Dabney Wellford Hall
St. John's Church
Warsaw |
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| Summer Speaker Series, APVA Northern Neck Branch |
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Everyone is invited to attend the second of the Branch's annual APVA Summer Speaker Series.
This particular program will be presented by Jan Beckett, who will speak on the George Washington Birthplace. For more information visit here.
Dress is casual. |
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| Cost: Just bring a covered dish of food to share |
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| Location: | Dabney Wellford Hall
St. John's Church
Warsaw |
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| First Assembly Day Commemoration |
| Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
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| Thomas Jefferson will reflect on the significance of the first Assembly in 1619 to the establishment of a new democracy and republic in 1776. Jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and APVA Preservation Virginia. |
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| Cost: Entrance Fee |
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| Summer Speaker Series, APVA Northern Neck Branch |
| Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. |
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Everyone is invited to attend the third of the Branch's annual APVA Summer Speaker Series.
Waite Rawls will preset a program on Jefferson Davis's bicentennial.
Dress is casual. |
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| Cost: Just bring a covered dish of food to share |
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| Location: | Dabney Wellford Hall
St. John's Church
Warsaw |
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| Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeology Tour |
| Sunday, June 1, 2008 - Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| 11:00 a.m. |
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This 30-minute tour of the original 1607 James Fort site is conducted by an APVA Preservation Virginia archaeologist. Learn how historical archaeology was used in 1994 by Dr. William Kelso to rediscover the once-lost fort site and how it is still used today by staff archaeologists to locate features of the fort's interior and artifact treasures. (Tour will not be given on 4 July.)
The site is jointly sponsored by the APVA and the National Park Service. |
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| Cost: Entrance fee; free to card-carrying APVA members |
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