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B. Sullivan

Sep 30, 2023

Letters of Recantation 1742

In the 1740s, Colonial America was in the midst of a religious "Great Awakening". The passion of the Puritan growth of the early-to-mid...

B. Sullivan

Aug 23, 2023

Madison at 83 by Longacre

This portrait was the last painted of James Madison during his lifetime. James Barton Longacre visited Madison at Montpelier in July of...

B. Sullivan

Aug 15, 2023

Mold - P-U!

Please, protect your special treasures properly. It is sad when you see the damage that is done by moisture when something is saved in a...

B. Sullivan

Feb 15, 2023

“Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s black.” Henry Ford

(All images are the 1924 Model T donated by Tex Webb.) With regard to the color of the Model T's (1919 - 1925), Henry Ford is quoted for...

B. Sullivan

Feb 10, 2023

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...

Anyone who had watched Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" remembers the wicked Queen, obsessed with her beauty, uttered those...

B. Sullivan

Feb 3, 2023

The Green Book

Technically, the Jim Crow Period was from 1867-1877. It was a time when federal laws provided protection of civil rights for former...

B. Sullivan

Nov 3, 2022

I'll connect you...

We've very recently received a donation from Robbie Colvin of the original phone switchboard of the President Madison Inn (James Madison...

B. Sullivan

Oct 6, 2022

Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders

I will admit straight out that my knowledge of inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison is weak, limited. For myself, the donation of...

B. Sullivan

Sep 24, 2022

"Your oath on the Bible...."

The Museum has several Bibles in our Collection, even a mid-1700's Book of Common Prayer. When colonists arrived on America's shores,...

B. Sullivan

Aug 27, 2022

Tully Choice Bond, Dec. 26, 1750

"My word is my bond." A handshake sealed a deal. These were codes of honor of men from our past which pretty well died out after the...