My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
Good evening and welcome to the National Churchill library and center. My name is Michael Bishop and im director of the library and executive director of the International Church and society. The result of a collaboration between the society of the George Washington university, the library is a First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of winston churchill. Here, students and visitors have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the interNational Churchill society by visiting our website, webdit winston churchill. Org. The benefits of membership are many and include a subscription to our quarterly publication of churchill scholarship finest hour. A few programming notes before turning to the subject of the evening. I hope you return to National Churchill library and center on march 1 when elio