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September 11, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

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 19! If you’re unfamiliar with the Amazing Raise event, here’s some brief background information: The Community Foundation of Greater Richmond is hosting a 36-hour online […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Amazing Raise, CAPE, fairfield foundation, Fundraising

September 3, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

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 a new model for our work preserving the Fairfield manor house.  Over five fast days (and a half day behind the scenes tour of Colonial Williamsburg), […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Adventures in Preservation, archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg, excavation, Fairfield Plantation, historic masonry, Preservation, Preservation Workshop, Volunteers

August 26, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

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 foundations? We get questions like this a lot, and they are good questions.  Why do we take remnants of the past, whether bits of paper, […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Adventures in Preservation, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Artifacts, education, Preservation, Preservation Workshop, Restoration

August 22, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

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 uncover the material remains of long lost buildings and landscape features, while these same architectural elements often inform our understanding of the past through their […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: Adventures in Preservation, archaeology, Architectural Conservation, Colonial Williamsburg, Fairfield, Fairfield Plantation, Preservation, Preservation Workshop

August 9, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

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 than we do! To that end, we are introducing a new, monthly segment of the blog post: the Volunteer Spotlight. This gives US a chance […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: lab nights, Volunteers

August 2, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Lithic Analysis at Fairfield: Chris Godschalk’s Summer Fellowship

Hello everyone.  My name is Christopher Godschalk.  I am a rising senior at the College of William & Mary majoring in Anthropology.  This summer, with generous funding from a Chappell Undergradute Research Fellowship through the Charles Center at the College of William and Mary, I am studying the prehistoric landscape at Fairfield Plantation.  Fairfield is primarily […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, College of William and Mary, Fairfield, interns, prehistoric

July 16, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Mapping Buildings and Burials at Gloucester Town

What happens to archaeological collections and associated documentation when the dig is over? Two weeks ago, fellow Colleen Betti wrote about her analysis of collections from the large slave quarter yards and midden at Fairfield (click here to read Colleen’s blog). Colleen’s research will culminate in a senior honor’s thesis at the College of William and […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, Gloucester Point, Gloucester Town

June 24, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Fairfield Fellow Check-In: Colleen Betti

Hi, my name is Colleen Betti and I am a rising senior at the College of William and Mary. I am excited to be back with the Fairfield Foundation for my fourth summer. This summer I am looking at artifacts from the midden – a large trash disposal area – and slave quarter yards at […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education Tagged With: archaeology, excavation, Fairfield, intern

June 7, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

Fairfield Foundation Launches The Center for Archaeology, Preservation and Education (CAPE)

This week a plumbing leak in our long-time lab facility covered the floor with an inch of water, making the space temporarily unusable.  Although we were better prepared for this lab flood than an identical one in April 2012, we are left without a fully operational lab.  We are forced once again to shift our operations to a temporary facility, limiting our […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events, Preservation Tagged With: archaeology, CAPE, Community, Edge Hill Service Station, education, gloucester, Heritage, Lab, Main Street, Middle Peninsula, Preservation, Restoration

May 16, 2013 By Fairfield Foundation

The Return of the Dig History! Archaeology Camp at Abingdon Glebe

If you missed out on last year’s successful Dig History! Archaeology camp for students at Abingdon Glebe, not to worry! The Fairfield Foundation is joining once again with St. James Anglican Church to host a three day camp filled with archaeology, education, and of course, fun! If your child roams your backyard with a metal […]

Filed Under: Archaeology, Education, Events Tagged With: Abingdon Glebe, archaeology, education, excavation

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