Today we meet with a real George Washington expert. Jeremy Ray is the Director of Interpretation at Mount Vernon, which is the former President's 18th-century home. It has been fully restored and includes the estate mansion, four separate gardens, both the old and new tomb where George Washington is buried, historic outbuildings including a blacksmith shop and ice house, a farm with interpreters who demonstrate Washinton's farming practices, a distillery, a wharf on the Potomac River, a museum, and an education center!
We discuss how Washington came to live at the mansion and the work he did there before, during, and after the American Revolution. We also highlight a short sword that, according to family, Washington wore during the Braddock campaign in the French and Indian War and a pair of eyeglasses that played a part in confronting a secret petition of mutiny!
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