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Waterford Fair

81st American Crafts & Historic Homes Tour

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Exhibits, Demonstrations & Tent Talks

Exhibits & Demonstrations

Old School Area

250 Exhibit: Loudoun & the American Revolution – lobby

Njörðr’s Wanderers

Rebecca Suerdick, Historian & Perfumer – porch

Jeff Ball, Earthly Host – Cemetery (behind the Old School)

Bond Street Barn Area

African American Experience of Waterford Display – Liggett Street stone wall

Sons of the American Revolution

John Wesley Church Area

Chesapeake Region Lace Guild – lower level

Hessian Regiment Von Huyn – Churchyard

Smocking Arts Guild of America – lower level

Village Center

Eugene Scheel, Mapmaker – Map Shop

Glenn McIntyre, Gunsmith – Gun Shop

Rivenwool Farm Rescue | Sheep & Goat: Meet & Greet, Wool Handicrafts Demonstration (Saturday & Sunday) – Next to the Red Barn

Sheep Shearing Demonstration: Then & Now (Saturday only, weather permitting) – Next to the Red Barn

Second Street School

Explore an 1880’s Classroom (15611 2nd St.)


Tent Talks

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Friday

11:00 am: Laura E. Christiansen, Thomas Balch Library
After the War: Documentation of Revolutionary War Veterans

12:30 pm: Susan Manch, President, Waterford Foundation
A Brief History of Waterford

2:00 pm: Rebecca Suerdick, Historian
Mary Randolph’s Virginia: “The Virginia House-wife” Culinary History

Saturday

11:00 am: Krag Buck, Historian, Njörðr’s Wanderers
Women, Textiles and Magic in the Viking Age

12:30 pm: Mallory Dansereau, Head Seamstress, Sycamore Spring Clothier
Dressing for the Revolution: Textiles that Clothed the Colonies

2:00 pm: John DeWald, Master Horner, The Horn & Needle
Beyond the Blade: Scrimshaw vs. Engraving, Explained

Sunday

12:30 pm: Susan Manch, President, Waterford Foundation
A Brief History of Waterford

2:00 pm: Jacob Grotheer, Pewtersmith, Georgia Colony Smith
Pewter and Spoons in Colonial America


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