This egg hunt provides an opportunity for visually impaired and blind individuals, along with their families, to participate in an audible Easter egg hunt. The event will run from 2-4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Families are asked to RSVP by Wednesday, March 25.
The specially designed plastic Easter eggs, donated by Stafford County-based International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, emit a beeping sound that allows visually impaired children to retrieve the eggs using their hearing. The event also includes a miniature animal petting zoo, crafts, “Touch a Tractor” and Wegmans-sponsored healthy snacks.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio is a 28-acre estate and former residence of the artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne. The property, which is operated by the University of Mary Washington, is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Michelle Crow-Dolby, education and communications manager, at mdolby@umw.edu or (540) 654-1851.Gari Melchers Home and Studio Hosts Fourth Annual Beeping Egg Hunt
March 9, 2015 by
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont will host its fourth annual Beeping Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 29.
This egg hunt provides an opportunity for visually impaired and blind individuals, along with their families, to participate in an audible Easter egg hunt. The event will run from 2-4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Families are asked to RSVP by Wednesday, March 25.
The specially designed plastic Easter eggs, donated by Stafford County-based International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, emit a beeping sound that allows visually impaired children to retrieve the eggs using their hearing. The event also includes a miniature animal petting zoo, crafts, “Touch a Tractor” and Wegmans-sponsored healthy snacks.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio is a 28-acre estate and former residence of the artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne. The property, which is operated by the University of Mary Washington, is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Michelle Crow-Dolby, education and communications manager, at mdolby@umw.edu or (540) 654-1851.
This egg hunt provides an opportunity for visually impaired and blind individuals, along with their families, to participate in an audible Easter egg hunt. The event will run from 2-4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Families are asked to RSVP by Wednesday, March 25.
The specially designed plastic Easter eggs, donated by Stafford County-based International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, emit a beeping sound that allows visually impaired children to retrieve the eggs using their hearing. The event also includes a miniature animal petting zoo, crafts, “Touch a Tractor” and Wegmans-sponsored healthy snacks.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio is a 28-acre estate and former residence of the artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne. The property, which is operated by the University of Mary Washington, is both a Virginia Historic Landmark and a National Historic Landmark.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Michelle Crow-Dolby, education and communications manager, at mdolby@umw.edu or (540) 654-1851.UMW Hosts Education Representatives
February 24, 2015 by
The University of Mary Washington hosted a delegation of high-level ministry and higher education representatives from eight countries on Feb. 23.
The representatives, who came to the U.S. from Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Vietnam, and the Philippines, visited as part of the EducationUSA Leadership Institute. The EducationUSA Leadership Institute was sponsored by the State Department and the Institute for International Education.
The delegation stayed in the U.S. from Feb. 16 to 24.
The goal of EducationUSA is to bring participants from select countries and world regions to the U.S. to increase their understanding of U.S. higher education, develop the tools necessary to build capacity within their own systems, and engage with the U.S. higher education in effective, sustained ways.
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- Salah Benabdallah, director of the mission Al Akhawayan, University of Ifrane, Morocco, and Nele Feldmann, Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, walk together through UMW campus.
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- Left to right: Salah Benabdallah, director of the mission Al Akhawayan at the University of Ifrane in Morocco, Cynthia Llanes, vice president for Academic Affairs at the Technological Institute of the Philippines, Beth Dennis, Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Nele Feldmann, Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, warm up inside of the Information and Technology Convergence Center.
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- Left to right: Nele Feldmann, Program Manager for Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, Mhammed Chraibi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ifraine in Morocco, Jose A. Sainz, associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for International Education at UMW, Oleksandra Lukianeknko, Chief Specialist of International Cooperation in Ukraine, and Beth Dennis, Program Officer at the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, walk past Lee Hall at UMW.
Author Discovers Founding Friendships
February 6, 2015 by
Friendships between men and women are usually regarded with suspicion, but Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington, discovered instances of genuine friendships between men and women hidden away in an unexpected time in history.
Good’s recently published book, “Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic,” draws on diaries, portraits and letters between men and women who lived in the early stages of the United States’ history and explores their relationships. Some of the relationships include familiar names: Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote letters back and forth. George Washington corresponded with a woman named Elizabeth Powel, also through letters.
Good spent nearly a decade researching friendships between men and women from 1780 to 1830. She traveled to about two dozen archives and museums all over the east coast and read letters written by men and women to each other among other documents. Some prohibitions existed against writing letters to unrelated members of the opposite sex during the late 1700s and early 1800s, but Good found substantial material.
Friendships between elite men and women, such as the one between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson, had political, social and personal benefits that were not romantic in nature, an idea that Good conveys in her book.
“I argue that elite men and women in the early American republic formed loving friendships that exemplified the key values of that period: equality, virtue, freedom and choice. These friendships were building blocks of new American systems of politics, gender, and power,” said Good, whose book was published by Oxford University Press.
Good aims to show that relationships between men and women are not always limited to marriage or romance. Friendship between men and women is not only possible, but it can be healthy, she said.
“The idea of companionate marriage—that a husband and wife should be friends—started in the period I write about, and with that arose the idea that marriage should be the central place for adults to fulfill emotional needs. I think both then and now we put too much weight on marriage as the pinnacle of fulfillment,” said Good. “I hope readers will consider how it takes many different relationships and types of love to support us and make us happy.”
Good’s recently published book, “Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic,” draws on diaries, portraits and letters between men and women who lived in the early stages of the United States’ history and explores their relationships. Some of the relationships include familiar names: Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote letters back and forth. George Washington corresponded with a woman named Elizabeth Powel, also through letters.
Good spent nearly a decade researching friendships between men and women from 1780 to 1830. She traveled to about two dozen archives and museums all over the east coast and read letters written by men and women to each other among other documents. Some prohibitions existed against writing letters to unrelated members of the opposite sex during the late 1700s and early 1800s, but Good found substantial material.
Friendships between elite men and women, such as the one between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson, had political, social and personal benefits that were not romantic in nature, an idea that Good conveys in her book.
“I argue that elite men and women in the early American republic formed loving friendships that exemplified the key values of that period: equality, virtue, freedom and choice. These friendships were building blocks of new American systems of politics, gender, and power,” said Good, whose book was published by Oxford University Press.
Good aims to show that relationships between men and women are not always limited to marriage or romance. Friendship between men and women is not only possible, but it can be healthy, she said.
“The idea of companionate marriage—that a husband and wife should be friends—started in the period I write about, and with that arose the idea that marriage should be the central place for adults to fulfill emotional needs. I think both then and now we put too much weight on marriage as the pinnacle of fulfillment,” said Good. “I hope readers will consider how it takes many different relationships and types of love to support us and make us happy.”