All Manner of Useful Goods: Household Necessities and Craftsmanship in Early America - A Symposium on American Social History and Material Culture.

All Manner of Useful Goods explores a host of hand-crafted materials and objects necessary to the daily running of households in early America from 1750-1850, and the craftsmanship involved in producing and marketing these wares. Presentations, a costumed interpretation, tabletop exhibits and demonstrations examine various trades, how they operated, economic factors impacting American craft, and how utilitarian goods made of redware and stoneware, base metals, cooperage, basketry and woodenware were produced and marketed.

Friday, March 28, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Presenters & Exhibitors:

• Katie Boardman, The Cherry Valley Group
• Donald Fennimore, Winterthur Museum
• Jay Gaynor, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Carson Hudson, Historical Diversions
• James Koterski, Independent Historian
• Michel Burton, The Swift Shuttles & Pat Lasus, Rabbit Ridge Spinning
• Kevin P. & Kathleen Clancy, Blacksmithing
• Walt & Mary Henderson, Henderson & Vinci Cabinetmaking
• Kathryn Polletto, High Country Basketry Guild
• Marshall Scheetz, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Cooperage

Cost: $65.00.
Advance registration is required and must be received by March 21, 2008. For information and registration forms, email susan.clark@fairfaxcounty.gov or phone Museum Collections at (703) 631-1429 or FAX (703) 631-8319.

Sponsors: Fairfax County Park Authority & George Mason University- Department of History