Presentation: Good Stories about Great Stuff

Every object in our collection has an interesting back story. Discover who created the object, who owned it, and how it ended up in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection. Each week an object will be explored by a curator, conservator, educator, archaeologist, or historian.

March 4: Kate Rogers, Associate Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture - Faces of Early Williamsburg: Portraits from the Colonial Capitol

March 11: Emily Nootbaar, Americana Foundation Curatorial Intern - Adding a Friendship Album to the Collection

March 18: Eric Schweickart, Archaeologist - An Archaeological Discovery from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine

March 25: Tracey Gulden, Media Collections - Home Movies

April 1: Christina Westenberger, DeWitt Wallace Gallery Learning - Hunting, Murder, and Bacon: Three Handkerchiefs from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection

April 8: Laura Barry, Juli Grainger Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture - New Paintings Accessions

April 15: Erik Goldstein, Senior Curator of Mechanical Arts, Metals, & Numismatics - Arms from Flixton Hall

April 22: Christina Westenberger, DeWitt Wallace Gallery Learning - Hunting, Murder, and Bacon: Three Handkerchiefs from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection

April 29: Sean Devlin, Senior Curator of Archaeological Collections - Tobacco Hoes from an Archaeological Perspective

May 6: Margaret Perry, Apothecary Assistant - Material Culture and the Public Hospital

May 13: Eric Schweickart, Archaeologist - An Archaeological Discovery from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine

May 20: Kate McEnroe, Conservator of Archaeological Materials - The Excavation of a Rare Bleu Persan Flower Urn

May 27: Margaret Perry, Apothecary Assistant - Material Culture and the Public Hospital

Programs are subject to change.