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Holiday Wreaths at Chatham
December 2020: Again this year, a group of volunteers gathered at Chatham to collect greenery from the grounds and create wreaths. In addition to adorning the doors of the mansion, wreaths for the laundry and kitchen outbuildings were added as well as for the entrance to the walled garden. Joyce Childress, Carol Ann Campbell and […]
Progress of Diana Restoration
Members of the Board of Directors and committee members of Friends of Chatham travelled to Russell Bernabo’s studio in Ashland recently to check on the progress of the restoration of the statue of Diana. The terracotta statue had been donated by John Lee Pratt, the last private owner of Chatham, to the Virginia Museum of […]
Restoring Pan
Pan, the noisy, goat-footed god of the Greeks, returned to Chatham Manor in April 2013, whose riverfront he had graced since the 1920s–until vandals knocked him over in December 2002, shattering the stone statue. The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club, the Rappahannock Fredericksburg Rotary Club, Friends of Chatham, and sculptors Scott McKee of Fredericksburg and […]
