She is responsible for recreating the beds and mountes that make vernon believable as a home. Nancy is widely recognized as the leading american expert of textiles of the 18th and 19th centuries. She began her career as an archaeologist, deeply interested in understanding the ways people how theythe past, lived with and express themselves through their material possessions. Over the past 30 years. , natalie has taken that approach above ground by studying furnishing textiles in order to recreate them. She began as an archaeological draftsmen. While at williamsburg, natalie refurbished nearly every expedition building, including the most recent restoration of the Peyton Randolph house. Natalie has worked for more than 80 museums and public sites. She is the go to textile expert for what i consider the three most important houses in america mount vernon, monticello, and the white house. Natalie is an extraordinary mentor to curators around the country. She selflessly provides insights fr
Individual you have all seen but whose name you may not recognize, natalie larson. Natalie larson is the unsung hero of mount vernon. She is responsible for physically recreating beds, curtains, and household textiles that make mount vernon believable as a home. Natalie is widely recognized as on leading american expert furnishing textiles of the 18th and 19th century and is the sole textilesr of historic incorporated of williamsburg, virginia. She began her career as an archaeologist, deeply interested in the ways people lived in the past and how they lived with and expressed themselves through their material possessions. Over the past 30 years, natalie has taken that approach above andnd by studying documenting surviving furnishing textiles to recreate them for use and house museums. An began her career as archaeological draftsman and Colonial Williamsburg before becoming a versions specialist. At williamsburg natalie refurnished nearly every exhibition building, including the most r
Good evening. I am the executive director of the society of the cincinnati. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker this evening. I want you all to do me a favor. This is his book. Hes going to talk to us about it. The book is the road to concord how four stolen cannon ignited the revolutionary war. He will defend that premise for us a little bit later. I want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. It is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. I dont read quickly. The reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort. And second, it is wonderfully researched, when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. All good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. A story you migh
I want to tell you what my reaction to this book is because i have had the opportunity to read it already. It is one of three books in the last 20 years i read cover to cover in one sitting. I dont read quickly. The reason i read it cover to cover in one sitting is it is extremely well written. It is graceful prose of an oldfashioned sort. And second, it is wonderfully , when i was taught in graduate school to refer to as a revisionist work in history. All good works of history if they are good are revisionist in some way, but he is telling us a new story about the coming of the revolution in massachusetts. A story you might have thought was already told to death. Of twook is a reflection things. One, really good oldfashioned history writing of a kind we dont see as much as we used to. And the second thing is, it is indicative of the emergence of what i think is a new sort of history writing or a new kind of history research. In ways itossible was not possible 20 years ago to andarch t
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