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Public History Fellow Organizing African American Heritage Day
by Lisa Hayes, Director of Public Programs and Education Meet Terence Johnson, Public History Fellow at the Accokeek Foundation From the...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 31, 20113 min
Food for Thought
by Matt Mattingly, Manager of the National Colonial Farm and Historic Interpretation You know what I miss the most about Southern...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 29, 20111 min
The Hog Blog
by “Sally” Recently my photo was selected by a London publisher for inclusion in a new book by Brett Mizelle (a professor at California...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 19, 20113 min
Remembering Clara Moran: An Extraordinary Woman
Clara loved her mums Throughout its history the Accokeek Foundation has been blessed by the contributions of many extraordinary women....
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 18, 20112 min
Colonial Cooking Books
The Accokeek Foundation's Foodways program explores the foods that our colonial ancestors ate and the ways in which these foods were...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 17, 20113 min
Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Wrench
Last month I gave a workshop on museum theatre at the Small Museums Association conference. Museum theatre is a valued part of our ...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 1, 20112 min
Washington’s Birthday and Washington’s View
by Wilton Corkern, President In 1793 George Washington wrote that, “No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this.”...
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Accokeek Foundation
Mar 1, 20111 min
Tobacco’s Tools
The eighteenth-century tobacco barn on the National Colonial Farm is filled with dry tobacco. Bundles of dried tobacco plants hang from...
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Accokeek Foundation
Jan 21, 20111 min
Missive from the Reading Room of the American Antiquarian Society
by Lisa Hayes, Director of Public Programs and Education In December I learned that I had been selected for a four-week Creative and...
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Accokeek Foundation
Jan 19, 20111 min
Discover Maryland Foodways this March
In March of this year the National Colonial Farm will premier its newly developed Foodways program. Over the years this successful...
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Accokeek Foundation
Nov 3, 20101 min
Twilight Tales: The Darker Side of Colonial Maryland’s History
Hog Island Sheep Grazing At 5:00 p.m. last Saturday the National Colonial Farm was the perfect picture of a pastoral scene. Cows and...
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