Just Do It: Reflections from Libby Cook. In this latest guest blog, Libby reflects on the powerful influences archaeology, material culture, and other fields and trades have on her study […]
The Battle of the Hook, and researching Gloucester’s Revolutionary War landscape
The Battle of the Hook returned to Gloucester this weekend! As this mock battle unfolded, we reflected on the changes to Gloucester County since 1781, and how the intervening history […]
Archaeology at the Battle of the Hook!
Raise your hand if you like archaeology. Okay, now raise your hand if it’s been too long since you last visited the beautiful grounds of Gloucester’s historic Warner Hall. Anybody […]
Celebrating the history of the Gloucester Woman’s Club and Edge Hill House
The Gloucester Woman’s Club is holding their 100th Anniversary Open House on October 5th at their home, the Edge Hill House. In preparation for this event, we have been helping the Woman’s Club […]
September Volunteer Spotlight: Pattie Sobieski
To continue our volunteer spotlight blog segment, we’d like to introduce you to Pattie Sobieski. Pattie brings energy, enthusiasm, and laughter to everything she participates in. We especially treasure her […]
Help Make The 2013 Amazing Raise A Success For The Fairfield Foundation!
It’s that time of year again! We are gearing up for the third annual Amazing Raise online fundraiser event, which is coming up next Wednesday and Thursday, September 18 and […]
AiP Workshop Builds a Better Future for Fairfield’s Foundations
Our third year of working with Adventures in Preservation brought about our most successful workshop yet! The mix of archaeology, architecture, and architectural conservation resulted in new discoveries, new friends, and […]
Why preserve Fairfield? And how?
The northeast facade of the Fairfield manor house, as it looked shortly before it burned in 1897 (image courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society). Why are you preserving these old […]
Bricks and Mortar: Using archaeology and preservation to save the past
Chocolate and Peanut Butter. Peanut Butter and Chocolate. These are undeniably two great things that go great together. The same should be true of archaeology and architectural conservation. Excavations frequently […]
Volunteer Spotlight: Rebecca Guest
Here at the Fairfield Foundation, we embrace the fact that we would be nothing without our dedicated volunteers. But we could definitely stand to recognize them publicly far more often […]
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