Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/10/2023
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University
Categories
This program is free and open to the public. You can attend via Zoom or in-person. See details below on both ways to attend.
Reenactor and Friends of Urban Agriculture volunteer gardener at Arlington House, Sandy Newton, will discuss the historic gardening methods in use at the National Park Service’s Plot Against Hunger.
Sandy will cover the history of Arlington House, focusing on two enslaved individuals who tended the garden, Ephraim Derricks and George Clark. She’ll also talk about the role of the garden in the life of the house and the Lee girls contributions to it. Finally, she’ll describe the garden as a Plot Against Hunger and the historic gardening methods in use today to produce and donate fresh foods to local pantries.
Along with digging in the dirt, Sandy Newton is also a spinner and weaver. She has worked at Mount Vernon for 32 years as a guide, farm supervisor, and historical character interpreter. She has a degree in textiles and was a curator at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden. She volunteers as a docent at both AHS museums, the Arlington Historical Museum and the Ball-Sellers House. She became the Secretary for the Arlington Historical Society this year and has volunteered throughout the Arlington community for decades.
Attend via Zoom or In-Person
PREREGISTER FOR ZOOM ACCESS. You can attend this event on either Zoom or in-person on the Marymount University Main Campus. If you want to attend this event virtually, please use this link to register. You can also cut and paste the following URL into your browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCbTaDM4W9dDbfoFITbuvWZEM4sCWM0-U6JtOoYO86hf7Kog/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please register by Wednesday, August 9: Zoom access information will be sent to you on the morning of the event on Thursday, August 10.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees planning to attend the event in-person should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. From Glebe Road going north, take a right onto 26th Street. Pass the intersection with Yorktown Road and then enter the campus through the next gate on your left. The library is to your left as you enter the campus. Free garage parking is just past the library at the bottom of the small incline. (Handicapped parking is immediately to your right as you enter the campus.)
- If the university has lowered the garage gates, push the button and let them know you’re here for an Arlington Historical Society event in the library. To leave, push the button and they’ll raise the gate.
This event is one of the monthly series of free public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society. For more information, please email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.