Month of October 2009

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Oct 2, 2009 - Friday

• Symposium on Slavery
  duPont Library
  Stratford, VA
  Oct 2, 2009 - Oct 4, 2009
  Stratford Hall will host a three-day residential Symposium on Slavery (click link for schedule) for Virginia teachers October 2-4, 2009. VCU Professor Emeritus Philip Schwarz, who formerly headed our two-week Seminar on Slavery, will serve as symposium director. As with the two-week seminar, the symposium will introduce participants to noted slavery scholars, alon...Read more
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Oct 16, 2009 - Friday

• Dining Room Closed
  Stratford Hall
  Stratford, Virginia
  Oct 16, 2009 -
  The Stratford Hall Dining Room is closed to the public.
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Oct 22, 2009 - Thursday

• Cultural Landscapes Symposium
  Stratford Hall
  Stratford, Virginia
  Oct 22, 2009 - Oct 25, 2009
  Dr. Camille Wells will direct this residential symposium that will examine historic architecture and landscape settings in the Northern Neck. The program incorporates a stimulating mix of lectures and site visits. For further information about the symposium, visit www.stratfordhall.org/learn/education/nn.php.
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Oct 24, 2009 - Saturday

• Dining Room Closed
  Stratford Hall
  Stratford, Virginia
  Oct 24, 2009 -
  The Dining Room will be closed to the public on Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25.
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Oct 25, 2009 - Sunday

• Dining Room Closed
  Stratford Hall
  Stratford, Virginia
  Oct 25, 2009 -
  The Dining Room will be closed to the public on Sunday, October 25.
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Oct 29, 2009 - Thursday

• Dining Room Closed
  Stratford Hall
  Stratford, Virginia
  Oct 29, 2009 -
  The Dining Room is closed to the public and will reopen on Friday, October 30.
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• Symposium: Rediscovering the Historic House
  Council House
  Stratford, VA
  Rediscovering the Historic House: Creating a New Paradigm for the Visitor Experience.

  Innovations expected by a modern, and increasingly technologically savvy, museum audience have prompted discussions of the historic house museum tour model. For this symposium, sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation, Stratford Hall has assembled a panel of experts from various disciplines to consider a new mo...Read more
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Oct 31, 2009 - Saturday

• Historical Haunts
  Visitor Center
  Stratford, VA
  

  On Saturday, October 31, 2009, from 6-8pm, Stratford Hall will host its third annual Historical Haunts program. Activities include ghost tours of the Great House, pumpkin painting, various Halloween crafts, picture-taking with Frankenstein and a witch, and an 18th-century fortune teller. Halloween refreshments will also be available.

  In the 18th-century, when the Lee family lived at ...Read more
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