The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association: 150 Years of Restoring George Washington's Home
Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2010. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with color illustration and gold gilt lettering, three sides gilt textblock, 191 pp., color and bw illustrations throughout. VG (minimal shelf wear, in excellent condition, all pages clear and intact). Item #181123
ISBN: 9780931917431
Contents Include: "Foreword / Cokie Roberts -- Visiting Mount Vernon, 1860-2010 / Stephen A. McLeod -- The vice regents : "ladies, the home of Washington is in your charge!" / Stephen A. McLeod -- The regents : "sister laborers -- whose hearts have been -- single unto their patriotic work" / Stephen A. McLeod and Mary V. Thompson -- The early years of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association : "a mite from their hard earnings cheerfully given" / Mary V. Thompson -- Years of preserving and restoring Mount Vernon : "restored as nearly as possible to General Washington's days" / Dennis J. Pogue -- Bringing them home : building the Mount Vernon collection / Emily D. Shapiro and Laura B. Simo -- In pursuit of authenticity : furnishing George Washington's Mount Vernon, 1860-2010 / Carol Borchert Cadou -- Restoring the gardens and landscapes at Mount Vernon: "Let one spot in this grand country of ours be saved from 'change!'" / J. Dean Norton."
OCLC: 444874746
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