March will soon be here and it will be time for the annual Friends of Chatham pre-St. Patrick’s Day Dutch Treat Member Mingle. Colonial Tavern, Home of the Irish Brigade 406 Lafayette Blvd, … [Read More...] about March Member Mingle
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Holiday Wreaths at Chatham
Again this year, the National Park Service gave Friends of Chatham permission to cut greens from the property to make wreaths for the exterior doors of the manor house. On December 6, volunteers Beth Stenstrom, Carol Ann Campbell, Joyce Childress and Carol Hyland gathered boxwood, magnolia, holly and other greenery. Using grapevine bases as a […]
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 […]
