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

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

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.

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
[log in to unmask] or phone Museum Collections at (703)
631-1429 or FAX (703) 631-8319.

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

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