🇺🇸On #PresidentsDay we honor the legacy of leadership & US history. 🇺🇸#GeorgeMason was a friend & colleague to 4 US Presidents.Visit historic #GunstonHall & see where George exchanged ideas & corresponded with these men who would become US Presidents.
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🥾☀️Join us in 1-week for Nature Thursdays on Feb 5 at 10:30 AM! 🌳Preschoolers enjoy story time, a guided hike and do weather observations. ☔🌞 Dress for the weather! 🎟️ Register now: https://t.co/LikMwbmHT9 Adults: $10, Seniors: $8, Kids 6-18: $5, under 6: Free. #LortonVA
🥾☀️Join us for Nature Thursdays on Feb 5 at 10:30 AM! 🌳Preschoolers enjoy story time, a guided hike and do weather observations. ☔🌞 Dress for the weather! 🎟️ Register now: https://t.co/LikMwbmHT9 Adults: $10, Seniors: $8, Kids 6-18: $5, under 6: Free.
#OTD#GeorgeMason wrote to his son John Mason in 1792
"I am also anxious to hear how you keep your Health;...The Snow is now as deep here,as it was in the hard Winter of 1740;..."
Letter: https://t.co/DxFeEef9jT
#Snow#FoundingFathers#VirginiaHistory
Pic: Gunston Hall 01/06/25
⭐🗓️One month till Game Night on Friday, February 20th, 6pm - 9 pm! ⭐
Many people in the 18th-C. played a variety of card, dice & board games. Learn how to play over a glass of wine 🍷or treat.
21 & older | 🎟️Tkts: Individual $35 Members $25
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⭐We can’t wait to welcome you back to the museum, mansion & grounds when we reopen this Sat., Jan. 17th, at 9:30 am!⭐While closed, we have been busy cleaning & caring for important preservation & curatorial work.
📌15 minutes from Mt. Vernon
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⏲️#HistoryInTheKitchen is this Sat., Jan. 10th, 10:30 am - 11:45 am! 🍽️
Join us for this #free, online series that illuminates the kinds of food different people ate in colonial Virginia. Jan. 10th will be Eggs in Croquets! 🍳
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#DMVFoodie
In the 18th-C., the #FeastOfTheEpiphany was when people exchanged gifts. Watch as our former Curator, Dr. Kate Steir highlights 3 gifts (book, puzzle & coin) that might have been given during the period.
Puzzle: Gift of Mrs. John Theodore Tenneson of the Washington Society, 1959
⏲️ Only 1-week away! #HistoryInTheKitchen is Sat., Jan. 10th, 10:30 am - 11:45 am! 🍽️
Join us for this #Free, online series that illuminates the kinds of food different people ate in colonial Virginia. Jan. 10th will be Eggs in Croquets! 🍳
https://t.co/eageyxYvGP
#DMVFoodie