The Virginia Safe Project

The Virginia Safe Project Virginia punched-tin paneled furniture Co-Directors: Jeffrey S. Evans and Kurt C.

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The initial phase of TVSP will target the Shenandoah Valley region beginning with Frederick County in the north and running southward to Botetourt County, as well as contiguous counties with associated manufacturing centers or concentrations of safes. Based on a combination of field research to record and photograph Virginia safes and extensive documentary evidence, the project’s Shenandoah V

alley survey will culminate in a 2014 exhibition at a soon to be announced Virginia museum as well as an illustrated catalogue describing the findings.

Lafayette’s accounts of travels through the Rockbridge-Botetourt County regions of Virginia offer fascinating insights i...
08/22/2023

Lafayette’s accounts of travels through the Rockbridge-Botetourt County regions of Virginia offer fascinating insights into early nineteenth-century lifeways in the backcountry!

in 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette says a final farewell to Jefferson at Monticello.

Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the United States in 1824 to tour the country he had fought for 50 years prior. Along his travels, he managed to first reunite with Jefferson at Monticello in November 1824, after 35 years of separation. It was during this twelve-day visit that the Marquis de Lafayette advocated for the liberation of the enslaved people at Monticello.

At the end of his tour, Lafayette circled back to Monticello to see Jefferson in August 1825. In a letter, he described Jefferson as "much weakened" and that "These partings and many others are very painful."

To learn more about the Marquis de Lafayette and his visits to Monticello, listen to our podcast “A Visit to Remember - Lafayette at Monticello”(https://bit.ly/3WgCmiJ)

Home from Mt. Vernon Symposium and had plenty of help watering Beverley's gardens..Missed you Rascals!!!⁹
06/05/2023

Home from Mt. Vernon Symposium and had plenty of help watering Beverley's gardens..Missed you Rascals!!!⁹

03/31/2023

"George Washington" by Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), signed and dated “CP Polk / Pinx / 1793” lower right, sold for $630,000 to a bidder on the phone with Christie's specialist Martha Willoughby. It was the top-selling lot of the sale.

https://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/from-peale-to-peto-the-pollack-collection/9200

The portrait, 30" x 23", was estimated at $200,000/400,000. An online bidder from Ohio was the underbidder. Christie’s New York had sold the work November 30, 2006, for $284,400 (est. $150,000/250,000).

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