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For that introduction, thank you so much. I wish my parents could have heard that. It would have made my father very proud and my mother actually would have believed you. So there you go. Well, for me as you suggested, this lecture concludes an amazing year that began just a year ago when the library, the fred w. Smith library for the study of George Washington opened and i was able to take a seat as one of the inaugural library fellows. During that year, i learned what a treasure all of you have in mt. Vernon. Led by kurt v. Brands and with the library led by doug bradburn, the staff here is ...

Move. There. We think of retirement as golf, bridge, a condo in florida with no grass to mow. But what would it mean to George Washington . He used the word often in 1783 as the revolutionary war was winding down and he prepared to resign his commission as commander in chief of American Forces in december. Mt. Vernon would be the and im quoting here, the seat of my retirement from the bustle of the busy world, washington wrote in one typical letter. Yet what did he envision . What did he envision that retirement to be . He was only 51 years old. And the most celebrated man in america, if not t...

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Perhaps actually fighting with it, we dont know. Certainly, it would have been a mark of status and pride and one of the only examples of late 18th century 34inchlong hunting sword from paris, france. I think we are very fortunate here at the Neville Public Museum here in brown county to have pieces of American History that resound across generations. What you are seeing is elements that we are focusing on a specific timeperiod of contact. Native american and european populations are coming going. The material culture, the artifacts, the paintings, all illustrate the points of crossroads on a ...

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