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The gentleman's farm : elegant country house living
\"For four centuries the ideal of the gentleman's farm has inspired Virginians to create extraordinary homes on landscapes of unparalleled beauty ... The houses featured in this book range from the Eastern Shore through the fabled Hunt Country and Piedmont, encompassing centuries-old family plantations and presidential retreats as well as aristocratic private estates lovingly restored as homes, working farms and resorts. Together, the elegant homes of these gentlemen--and gentlewomen--farmers tell the story of enduring allure of traditional country life, architecture and interior design.\"--Flyleaf.
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Reflections of Virginia on the Manatee River
The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 opened Florida as part of the American rapid westward expansion. The new territory offered speculative ventures, potential political careers, and cheap, fertile land to many Tidewater planters. In the 1840s, the newly opened South Florida frontier enabled Middle Florida planters to create sugar plantations, worked by enslaved labor, that participated within the 19th-century global economy. This paper examines the historical sources regarding Robert Gamble's Virginia heritage, his family's role in the migration of Virginia planters to Middle Florida, and the creation of the Gamble Plantation in order to gain a sense of the Manatee River frontier as a settlement colony.
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George Washington's Mount Vernon
This book brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also loved building, a man passionately committed to impressing the stamp of his character and personal beliefs on the physical world around him. Architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light their book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--enslaved and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of the nation--hopes that embraced the full promise of the American Revolution.George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of our first President's life, the public and the private, and uses this combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, and with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, it tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.
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The dying of the light : a novel
Forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family's estate, Diana Cooke, coming of age just after World War I, sacrifices everything, including love, to become the wife of a man she cannot abide, until fate intervenes.
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The Archaeology of Temporary Construction Devices on Historic Building Sites in the Southeast
Distinctive archaeological features can be attributed to the life cycle of buildings from construction to destruction. One group of features that has not been closely examined on historic sites are those resulting from the erection of construction devices such as derricks and scaffolding. Descriptions of these devices in the literature are provided. Archaeological features of derricks and scaffolds on house sites in Tennessee and Virginia are compared to those in the literature. Attributes such as distance from the building, spacing, and feature fill that differentiates them from other earthfast features are discussed. The identification of such temporary construction features is important for understanding the level of technology employed in American construction, dating buildings under construction, origins, and possible ethnic affiliation of these devices.
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The Bird is the Word
This chapter focuses on Woolf's “familiarity with and appreciation” for the work of ornithologist W. H. Hudson (1841–1922). Despite differences in sex and socialization, age and reputation, Hudson and Woolf were kindred spirits. Both had distinctive childhood experiences of non-urban places that reverberate throughout their writing. Both were educated and enthusiastic common readers. Without university degrees or positions, both defined themselves as outsiders—Hudson among academic scientists in an adopted country and Woolf among academic, mostly male, biographers and critics. The chapter uses two of Hudson's books to create cultural contexts for Woolf's writing. When Woolf reviewed Hudson's memoir Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life in 1918, she linked his interest in birds with his flights of words. In her later fiction, she re-envisioned Hudson's attempt in his bird-filled 1904 novel Green Mansions to express oneness with nature.
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James Madison and Montpelier: The Rhythms of Rural Life
This chapter contains sections titled:
Madison's Lifelong Home
The Building of Montpelier
Madison's Early Days
Madison's Marriage and Return to Montpelier
Madison as Secretary of State
Madison as President
Madison in Retirement
Montpelier after James Madison
Madison and Montpelier
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Mr. Jefferson's dream house
Monticello, the mansion built in Virginia by Thomas Jafferson, is the jewel of American neo-classical architecture. In 1987, it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. A historic tour of Monticello is presented.
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