Arlington House U.S. Department of the Interior The Robert E. Lee Memorial The Spectacle

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This summer, Arlington House Facilities Manager Malcolm Willoughby transferred to Glen Echo and Clara Barton National Historic Site to be facility manager there. It was a dark day when he left, but there is a silver lining: we get to bring in someone new!

The Facilities Manager job is a complex position that demands hands on trades skills, the ability to work well with people, and to an ever increasing degree, the ability to work with computer databases. Fortunately for us, we have found such a person within the ranks of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Tinaudra Foster, a maintenance worker in the Buildings and Utilities branch, will begin serving this month on a 60-day detail as the Arlington House Facilities Manager. North wing of Arlington House Tinaudra, or “Ti”, is no stranger to Arlington House. She has done some marvelous VIP Trip to Appomattox Court masonry work here, particularly the replacement of the brick floors in the slaves House quarters following the archeology, and she has worked behind the scenes with the park’s This year our destination for the volunteer September 10 (703 235-1530 ext. 227) or facility management database. But if you have trip will be the Appomattox Court House e-mail ([email protected]) to not had the chance to meet her, please take a National Historical Park. This will be day- reserve your seat on the bus. The bus seats moment to introduce yourself and welcome long trip, approximately 8:00 AM–7:30 PM. about 20. Please let us know your plans as her to the site! We will be leaving from the OAB (Old soon as possible, so we can finalize Administration Building) at 8:00 AM. arrangements. If you are unable to go on the Kendell Thompson Appomattox is approximately three and a trip, but would like to volunteer at Arlington Site Manager half hours from Arlington. House for part of the day, we would be most Arlington House, appreciative. The Robert E. Lee Memorial The Park Service will reimburse volunteers for their lunches (limit $10.00 per volunteer). The September 24th date is tentative because You may also want to bring snacks for the a driver has not been assigned. If the date is ride home. A Park Service bus has been changed you will be notified and we will reserved for our trip on Saturday, reschedule the trip. September 24, 2005. Please call by

Volunteers Monthly Newsletter - Volume VI, Number 9 - September 2005 Significant Historic Events in September

September, 1845 Perhaps the greatest consequence of the taken away for the evil to come.’ [Isaiah 57:1] G.W.P. Custis, continues his “pilgrimage to battle was the death of General Phillip May God have mercy on us all.” the great scenes of the American Revolution, Kearny, one of the “most promising Union visiting , Lexington, and Concord. In officers…The death of the beloved and September 13, 1862 Boston he was “depressed to find no sign of admired Kearny…was mourned both North In the morning at Frederick, , two the old entrenchments on Bunker Hill,” and and South.” Kearny’s grave and equestrian lounging Union soldiers picked up a paper later expressed his regret that the New statue are located near the Old wrapped around a few cigars. It was a lost of England states had not preserved some of Amphitheater. Lee’s orders for the Maryland campaign. the Revolutionary battle sites for future The ‘Lost Order of Antietam’ was rushed to generations. In Lexington and Concord he September 2, 1862 McCellan and he began to move accordingly found thing “as they should be, little After defeating the forces at and a little more rapidly, though not entirely changed from the olden days.” “In Second Manassas, Lee remained on the trusting to his fortuitous intelligence. advocating the preservation of historic offensive, crossing the Potomac into sites…Custis was once more well ahead of Maryland by fords in the Leesburg area, an September 16, 1832 this time.” operation which continued until September George Washington Custis Lee, first child of 7. Robert E. and Mary Custis Lee was born at September, 1851 Old Point (Fort Monroe), Norfolk, , G.W.P. Custis spent a few days visiting the September 8, 1862 the only one of the Lee children not born at Lees in Baltimore, and while there addressed General Lee issued a proclamation to the Arlington. Six weeks later Lee wrote, a meeting in Monument Square “which had citizen of Maryland declaring that it “is for “Master Custis is the most darling boy in the been called to petition the government to you to decide your destiny freely and without world.” intercede in behalf of some Irish nationalist constraint. This army will respect your confined in the England penal colony in choice, whatever it may be.” September 17, 1862 Australia. Lee was impressed…by the size of The was probably the the crowd and the attention and applause it September 11, 1861 bloodiest one-day battle ever fought in gave ‘the old orator of Ireland,’ when Mr. The cheat Mountain campaign, the first that North America. “Badly outnumbered, Lee Custis addressed it.” Lee was to conduct, was a failure, and it made his stand in Maryland and McCellan brought Lee considerable public criticism. attacked, throwing in his corps piecemeal September, 1866 For five days he campaigned “against the and failing to use his very strong The vault of The Unknown Dead of the Civil Federals, the heavy rains of the season, and reserve…Federal gains were small and War, a pit twenty feet deep and twenty feet in the rugged mountains in western Virginia.” costly.” At a critical moment when the diameter constructed just to the west of the [Long] Afterwards the Richmond press Confederate right was driven in, Confederate former flower garden at Arlington, was filled pictured Lee as overcautious theorist and General A. P. Hill and his division arrived on with bones from over two thousand gave him a lecture about the proper conduct the field after a hurried march from Harper’s skeletons—”skulls in one division, legs in of mountain warfare. Ferry, and the Federal advance was halted. another, arms in another, and ribs in Exact casualty figures are unknown, but at another”—and finally sealed. September 13, 1861 least 12,400 Federals and 13,700 Confederates Lt. Colonel John A. Washington, Lee’s were killed, wounded or listed as missing in September 1, 1852 A.D.C. during the Cheat Mountain fiasco, battle. Colonel Lee assumed command of the was killed by United States Army pickets United States Military Academy at West while reconnoitering. The horse of Rooney “Lee, directing his first battle on the field (in Point were he served until March 31, 1855. Lee was killed at the same time, but Lee’s son contrast to planning the strategy and was himself uninjured. Washington, who relinquishing the tactics to subordinates), September 1,1862 was the great-grand nephew of George revealed himself to be as great a combat Battle of Chantilly. During this last episode Washington and the last private owner of general as he had already shown himself a of Second Manassas, General Pope’s troops Mount Vernon, had been esteemed by Lee as strategist. It was entirely his fight, as he held off a Confederate advance and both a friend and a gentleman. To his wife, moved brigade units and even gun batteries withdrew closer to Washington. “Lee kept Lee wrote with genuine grief that he had about with no regard to army organization.” the pressure on the distraught Federals, but appreciated “him very highly. Morning & “His men stood up to 25 per cent Washington itself was well protected.” evening have I seen him on him knees praying to his Maker… ‘[T]he righteous is (continued on page 3)

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On September 27th and September 29th, Dr. Dr. Fitzgerald earned his B.A from Check the following link to learn more about Oscar Fitzgerald will give a tour of the Vanderbilt University and his M.A. and Ph.D. Dr. Fitzgerald’s book: exhibit room furnishings at Arlington House in history from Georgetown University. He http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/ for the volunteers and staff. recently retired from the Naval Historical 0870697412/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-1945190- As space in the exhibit rooms is limited, we Center, where he served first as head of the 7032123#reader-page can only take 15 people on each tour. You Contemporary History program and then as must RSVP no later than Friday, September director of the Navy Museum. His 23rd so that we may have an accurate count. publications include two volumes in the Please choose one of the evenings and call official Navy history of the Vietnam War. For Museum Curator Mary Troy at 703-235-1535 the past few years he has pursued full time to RSVP. [Mary works Monday toFriday, his first love, the history of furniture and the 6 am – 3:30 pm] decorative arts. His publications in this field We will schedule a weekend tour later in the include Four Centuries of American year to accommodate those who can not Furniture and an exhibit catalogue of the make it in September. “Green Family of Cabinetmakers: An Alexandria Institution.” He is active in Details: historic preservation as a consultant to RSVP - Museum Curator Mary Troy no later historic properties, including Dumbarton than Friday, September 23rd, 703-235-1535 House in Washington, and as a member of Limit: 15 people per tour Alexandria’s Board of Architectural Review. Meet: OAB conference room He currently teaches at The George When: Introduction and tour will begin at Washington University and in the 5:00pm sharp – daylight will be limited! Smithsonian Institution/Parsons School master’s program in the Decorative Arts. Significant Historic Events in September (continued)

casualties…and permanently cooled off morning he had worked in his office at National Park Service McCellan’s battle ardor.” Nevertheless, Lee’s Washington College. As he completed his U.S. Department of the Interior best chance of winning independence for the work, he met a sophomore who had a small Confederacy “had come and gone.” picture of Lee which he wished autographed. The student offered to come back later, but Arlington House was the home of Robert E. Lee September 18, 1862 Lee said, “No, I will go right back and do it and his family for thirty years and is uniquely Though outnumbered more than two to one, now.” In the evening he braved a cold rain to associated with the Washington and Custis families. It is now preserved as a memorial to Lee remained at Antietam throughout the preside over a vestry meeting at Grace General Lee, who gained the respect of day inviting an attack for McCellan that [Episcopal] Church. Returning home, he Americans in both the North and the South. never came. Lee finally recrossed the tried to say grace at the table, but the words Arlington House Potomac with his army on the night of would not come. Doctors were summoned, The Robert E. Lee Memorial September 18-19. and a bed was brought downstairs so that the c/o George Washington Memorial Parkway Turkey Run Park dinning room could become a sick chamber. McLean, VA 22101 September 25, 1825 Robert E. Lee signed the oath taken by Since his undiagnosed heart attack outside Phone 703-235-1530 entering cadets at West Point. “When Fredericksburg in March 1863, Lee had registering, Lee gave Westmoreland County, suffered angina pectoris, “and his Web Site Virginia, as his place of residence, and deteriorating circulatory system made him http://www.nps.gov/arho Colonel Henry Lee, his half-brother, as his vulnerable to another heart attack or to a The Spectacle online guardian.” stroke.” In Lee’s day his attack of September http://www.nps.gov/arho/tour/spectacle.html 28 was diagnosed as a “venous congestion of The National Park Service cares for the September 28, 1870 the brain”. Today it would be called a special places saved by the American people Robert E. Lee suffered the stroke which led “cerebral thrombosis, a blood clot in the so that all may experience our heritage. to his death on October 12. During the brain.”

The Spectacle 3 Area Special Events

September 3 September 10 Living history, “The Capture of Harpers Artillery demonstrations at Fort Macon, Tour, two-hour guided tour of part of the Ferry 1862,” special programs at the Harpers Altantic Beach, NC. Cannon firings at 10:30 Brandy Station battlefield. Begins 10 am at Ferry National Historical Park, WV. Free and 11:30 am and 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 pm. Free. the Graffiti House Visitor Center (just off with admission. 304-535-6029 or More info: 252-726-8598. Route 29 north of Culpeper, VA) at 10 am. $5. www.nps.gov/hafe. www.brandystationfoundation.com or Civil War living history lantern tours at 540-547-4106. Living history encampments at the Pitzer Meadow Farm, north of Richmond, VA Woods, Gettysburg National Park, PA. Free. (follow signs from I-295). Tours leave every 15 Civil War Bike Ride. The Baltimore Bicycling 717-338-9114 or www.nps.gov/gett. minutes 7:15-9 pm. Free. Registration Club sponsors a variety of rides during the required: 804-501-5520. “Civil War Century” event allowing visits to Civil War Days at the Chesapeake Public South Mountain, Gettysburg or Antietam, Library, VA. Annual event includes military September 3-4 MD. More info, registration: and civilian demonstrations and other living Large artillery demonstration at Pitzer www.baltobikeclub.org/cwc history, lectures, children’s activities and Woods. Medical demonstrations and field much more. Free. 757-382-8571 or hospital at the Memorial at anniversary www.chesapeake.lib.va.us. Gettysburg National Military Park, PA Free. activities: Lecture, “The Battle of South 717-338-9114 or www.nps.gov/gett. Mountain,” at the Antietam National Living history encampment, demonstrations Battlefield, MD at 11 am; lecture, “Who Shot and skirmish at the Reister’s Towne Festival Living history, “Union Surgeon,” at the Reno,” at Crampton’s Gap/Gathland State in Reistertown, MD. Festival opens 9 am National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Park, MD at 1 pm; and “The Civil War in 3- Saturday and noon Sunday on the grounds of Frederick, MD. 11 am-3 pm. Free with D,” special stereo photograph showing at the Hannah More Center. Free. Festival admission. 301-695-1864 or , MD visitor center at 7 details: www.reisters-towne-festival.com. www.civilwarmed.org. pm. Park fees may apply. Call 301-432-8065 for details. September 11 September 4 Battle of South Mountain anniversary Artillery demonstrations at Fort Washington Living history program at Gathland State activities: Lecture, “The Texas Brigade Park, MD (I-495, exit 3A). 1, 2 and 3 pm. Free Park (Crampton’s Gap, South Mountain) during the Maryland Campaign,” at the with park admission. 301-763-4600 or near Burkittsville, MD. Details: 301-432-8065. Antietam National Battlefield at 11 am; www.nps.gov/fowa. lecture, “The Hospitals of Burkittsville,” at Tour, “ Escape Route,” 12- Crampton’s Gap/Gathland State Park at 1 pm. Walking tour, “Death of a Brigade, The hour bus tour follows the footsteps of Park fees may apply. Call 301-432-8065 for Afternoon Battle,” explore the Turner’s and Lincoln’s assassin from Ford’s Theater details. Fox’s Gaps of the South Mountain through Maryland and into Virginia. $50. Battlefield. Begins Turner’s Gap (Alternate Reservations required. Sponsored by the Flag ceremony for the Battle of South Route 40) near Boonsboro, MD at 2 pm. Surratt House Museum, Clinton, MD. Mountain dead in the Antietam National Free. 301-432-8065. Details: www.surratt.org or 301-868-1121. Cemetery, MD. Details: 301-432-8065.

Living history, Civil War civilian story at September 10-11 September 16-18 Meadow Farm, north of Richmond, VA Reenactment, the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, at Special event, Antietam Anniversary (follow signs from I-295). Noon-4 pm. Free. the state park near Summersville, WV. Weekend. Talks, presentations, hikes and 804-501-5520. Grounds open with demonstrations 9 am-5 living history at Antietam National pm both days. Tactical battle Saturday Battlefield, MD. Details: www.nps.gov/anti September 8-11 afternoon. Reenactment 2 pm Sunday. or 301-432-5124. Tour, Gettysburg Battlefield, PA, covers all All free. 304-872-0825. three days of fighting. A Civil War Weekend “Civil War Weekend: The Third Battle of Tour. $595 per person includes upscale House tours of the Berkeley County Winchester.” Lecture, “Virginia’s Iron lodging (double occupancy), tour and most Historical Society (Belle Boyd House) in Horses at War, 1861-1865" at the Museum of meals. www.civilwarweekend.com or Martinsburg,WV. 10 am-4 pm. More info: the Shenandoah Valley ($8) 7 pm Friday. Fort 866-CWW-TOUR. www.bchs.org or 304-267-4713. (continued on page 5)

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Collier Civil War Cotillion ($30) Friday Potomac River defense, at the Leesylvania Battlefield, MD at 11 am, 2 and 4 pm evening. Bus tours ($25) at 2 and 4 pm State Park, VA. Free with park fee. Saturday; 11 am and 2 pm Sunday. Free with Saturday begin at Winchester, VA visitor 10 am-4 pm. 703-583-6904. admission. www.nps.gov/anti or 301-432-5124 center. Living history at Sheridan’s Field Hospital and the Old Court House Civil War “Americans at War,” re-enactments, living Living history encampments at the Museum Saturday and Sunday. Living history history demonstrations, exhibits and more Pennsylvania Memorial and Pitzer Woods, at Fort Collier Saturday. Book signings at the looks at the military from Colonial times to Gettysburg National Park, PA. Free. 717-338- visitor center Saturday afternoon. Panel the present at Pamplin Historical Park south 9114 or www.nps.gov/gett. discussion, “The Anguish of War: of Petersburg, VA. Free with admission. 877- Winchester’s Civilians in America’s Epic PAMPLIN or www.pamplinpark.org. Anniversary living history and ranger Conflict” at the Shenandoah University programs at Fort Harrison, part of the visitor center downtown Saturday 10 am. All September 22 Richmond National Battlefield Park, VA. free unless indicated. Self-guided tour Panel discussion, “The Confederacy in the Candlelight tour 8 pm Saturday. 10 am-5 pm information of the Third Winchester 21st Century,” explores the place of the Saturday, 10 am-4 pm Sunday. Free. battlefield available. More info: Confederacy in contemporary America. 7:30 804-226-1981 or www.nps.gov/rich. www.shenandoahatwar.org or 800-662-1360. pm at the University of Richmond, Keller Hall Reception Room, in Richmond, VA. September 30-October 2 September 17 Free. Co-sponsored by the Museum of the Conference on Civil War Medicine in Living history walking tour, “Courage! The Confederacy. Reservations required: Hagerstown, MD. More info: 301-695-1864 or Civil War in Washington,” explore the streets 804-649-1861 extension 28 or email www.civilwarmed.org. of the national capital with a “citizen.” Meets [email protected]. at Cosi Coffee, 10th and “E” NW, Battle of Stanardsville Weekend. Washington DC at 11 am. $10 adults. September 24 Encampments, battle scenarios Saturday and 301-588-9255 or www.historicstrolls.com. House tour, annual “Autumn Pilgrimage Sunday, night artillery firing, buggy rides, Home and Garden Tour,” features seldom- Civil War ball and music in Greene County, Civil War Book Fair, meet and talk with 20 open James River Plantations in Virginia, VA. Advance tickets $5/day or $8/two-days. authors of Civil War books at the Museum of many with Civil War stories. 9 am-5 pm. At the gate: $7/$12. More info: 434-985-6663 the Confederacy in Richmond, VA. Advance tickets $26; day-of-tour $30. or www.greeneva.com. 804-649-1861 or www.moc.org. Proceeds benefit Westover Parish Church. 804-458-5650 or email [email protected]. Living history, artillery demonstrations on Website: www.westoverparish.org. Stuart’s Hill, Manassas National Battlefield Park, VA. 1 and 2 pm. Free with park Tour, two-hour guided tour of part of the admission. www.nps.gov/mana or Brandy Station battlefield. Begins 10 am at 703-361-1339. the Graffiti House Visitor Center (just off Route 29 north of Culpeper, VA) at 10 am. $5. Living history, “Phoebe Pember - www.brandystationfoundation.com or Confederate hospital matron,” at the 540-547-4106. National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD. 11 am-3 pm. Free with Tour, “John Wilkes Booth Escape Route,” 12- AN IMPORTANT admission. 301-695-1864 or hour bus tour follows the footsteps of www.civilwarmed.org. Lincoln’s assassin from Ford’s Theater REMINDER through Maryland and into Virginia. $50. Please contact Delphine Gross no later than the September 17-18 Reservations required. Sponsored by the 20th of each month with availability dates and Living history weekend at Fort Macon, Surratt House Museum, Clinton, MD. times to be posted the following month (Please Atlantic Beach, NC, features the 1st/11th NC Details: www.surratt.org or 301-868-1121. call by September 20th with October information). Even if you are a regularly Volunteers. 10 am-4 pm. Free. 252-726-3775 scheduled VIP please contact Delphine to or www.clis.com/friends. September 24-25 confirm your availability. Again, the contact number is (703) 235-1530 ext. 227. Please Living history, “Forlorn Hopes or Wasted leave the dates and times you are available on Living history, “Anniversary of Freestone Gallantry at Antietam.” Infantry the voice mail. Your cooperation is greatly Battery,” the Confederacy’s northernmost demonstrations at the Antietam National appreciated.

The Spectacle 5 History Happenings

Music at Arlington Each of the four Lee girls studied music. At Variations brillante La Violette Annie played Pelham Priory in New York, “Sister” was at VFI recital “You will like neither the teacher nor the music exposed to piano and harp instruction. At Songs Without Words and Funeral March by unless you practice diligently and learn to play the Virginia Female Institute, Annie and Mendelssohn Mildred played these songs well. That is the secret. We are always fond of Agnes studied piano and, much to their hours before Lee suffered his fatal stroke what we do well . . .” dismay, were required to perform at recitals. How firm a foundation Ye saints of the lord Robert E. Lee to Mildred Lee, 9 January 1857 One session’s worth of music lessons at the Lee’s favorite hymn played at his funeral, and school cost the princely sum of $60 in the later at Mildred’s Stationed far away in Texas, Lee offered the late 1850s. In 1856, the Chaplain of the House Jesus Lover of My Soul played at Rooney’s above advice to his youngest daughter when of Representatives visited the family at funeral she wrote to inform him of a change in music Arlington. He and Markie agreed that Let Dogs delight to Bark and Bite and Little teachers. His words underscore the Beethoven was the composer of choice, and Drops of Water Little Grains of Sand - slaves important role music played at Arlington Agnes played several tunes on the piano for remembered singing these songs in the House. Because the Custis and Lee families the elderly chaplain. dressing room at Arlington placed a high value on music, the ARHO staff Far Far Away and various hymns – slaves has selected music for the theme of the 2005 Mildred Lee received musical instruction at sang in dressing room Evening Open House. The highlight of the Arlington from a Mr. Hall. According to evening will be the playing of the recently Markie Williams, Mr. Hall was an restored Custis violin. accomplished pianist but an inferior vocalist. She observed that he spent much of the hour The 1887 Baroque violin was made by John playing the piano himself, and then often Crowther in England. Most of its 18th lingered at Arlington for hours. During the century components are intact. According to war, Mildred and her classmates at St. Mary’s Recipe of the Nelligan, George Washington purchased the school attended informal concerts provided violin as a gift for George Washington Parke by Confederate regimental bands that Month Custis. Mr. Custis frequently played the performed Dixie and Carry Me Back to Old Ginger cakes (All sorts of ginger cakes or breads violin for his family and friends as well as Virginny. were popular. Some were soft and others were visitors to the Arlington Spring. In addition hard or crisp. Some recipes could be rolled out to the violin, the family also possessed a After the Civil War, music continued to play a and cut into shapes and hung on the tree. These are crisp, sugar coated cookies and are delicious.) piano, organ, and harpsichord. prominent role in the family’s social activities. Sister once organized the annual Mr. Custis’ love of music extended to his carol service in Lexington, recruiting Ginger Cakes plays. The Railroad included a rousing tune Washington and Lee students as well as VMI cadets. Various members of the family 3/4 cups shortening entitled “Steam Coach Song.” The song 1 cup sugar advocated the use of the railroad as the most attended balls and dances. During a dance at 1 beaten egg efficient means of travel. Other songs White Sulphur Springs, Lee urged Southern 1/4 cup molasses 2 tsp. soda included medleys that lauded the heroes of women to be gracious to visitors from the 1 tsp. cinnamon the American Revolution. Most of Custis’ North as befitting Christian women. Mary 1 tsp. ginger plays included songs, and one song is all that Custis Lee made a donation to the student 2 cups flour survives of the play Montgomerie. Mrs. body at W&L for the purchase of a piano for Cream shortening and sugar. Add the egg Custis and Mrs. Lee encouraged the “hops and balls!” and molasses and mix well. Sift together the appreciation of religious music and hymns dry ingredients and add to the shortening were routinely sung at Arlington. Below is a list of music associated with Arlington and the Custis/Lee family: mixture. Mix until combined. Roll into walnut sized balls and roll in sugar. Bake at After the death of Mrs. Custis in 1853, GWP 350 degrees for 7 - 10 minutes. Custis frequently suffered from depression. Jesus Savior of My Soul Mildred sang this Markie observed in her journal that she hymn in the garden at Arlington From: Recipes of the Civil War Era often played the piano in an effort to lift his Witches Dance (Paganini) Agnes played at www.angelfire.com./me/civilian/recipes.html spirits. This practice occurred a half hour VFI recital before bedtime, and he usually fell asleep Agnes assigned to play Lucrezia Borzia at Contributed by Mary Leonard during the informal recital. VFI

6 The Spectacle September 2005 Arlington House VIP Calendar Syunday Myonda Tyuesda Wyednesda Tyhursda Fyrida Saturda 1 2 3 Walter DeGroot Joan Cashell Hope Flanagan 9:30-11:30 9:30-11:30 1:00-4:00

Charlotte Needham and Elaine Street 10:30-1:00 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jim Pearson Fred Hoffman Fred Hoffman Arlene Riley Walter DeGroot Joan Cashell Hope Flanagan 12:30-4:30 1:00-4:00 1:00-4:00 2:00-4:00 9:30-11:30 9:30-11:30 1:00-4:00

Charlotte Needham and Elaine Street 10:30-1:00

Gene Cross 11:00-4:30 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Jim Pearson Fred Hoffman Fred Hoffman Arlene Riley Walter DeGroot Joan Cashell Elene Paul 12:30-4:30 1:00-4:00 1:00-4:00 2:00-4:00 9:30-11:30 9:30-11:30 10:00-2:00

Elaine Street Hope Flanagan 10:30-1:00 1:00-4:00

Gene Cross 11:00-4:30 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Jim Pearson Fred Hoffman Fred Hoffman Arlene Riley Walter DeGroot Joan Cashell Hope Flanagan 12:30-4:30 1:00-4:00 1:00-4:00 2:00-4:00 9:30-11:30 9:30-11:30 1:00-4:00

Charlotte Needham and Elaine Street 10:30-1:00

Gene Cross 11:00-4:30 25 26 27 28 29 30 Delia Rios Fred Hoffman Kathie Lipovac Arlene Riley Walter DeGroot Joan Cashell 10:00-12:00 1:00-4:00 12:30-4:30 2:00-4:00 9:30-11:30 9:30-11:30

Jim Pearson Fred Hoffman Charlotte 12:30-4:30 1:00-4:00 Needham 10:30-1:00 Elene Paul 10:00-3:00 Gene Cross 11:00-4:30

If you are available to volunteer, but are not on the calendar please call Delphine so you can be added to the schedule.

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Arlington House The Robert E. Lee Memorial c/o George Washington Memorial Parkway Turkey Run Park McLean, VA 22101

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Volunteers Needed The Spectacle is a monthly newsletter for the volunteers of Arlington House, The Robert E. The roster of active volunteers is in dire need of additional names! If you know anyone interested in Lee Memorial. joining our ranks please refer them to Delphine Gross, Volunteer Coordinator (703) 235-1530 ext 227.

Editor Keith Drews

Supervisory Park Ranger Frank Cucurullo

Contributors Kendell Thompson Delphine Gross Karen Kinzey Mary Leonard Mary Troy

NPS Photographers Keith Drews

Comments? Write to: Kendell Thompson, Site Manager Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial c/o George Washington Memorial Parkway Turkey Run Park McLean, VA 22101

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