Virtual Programs
Due to the pandemic, the Museums on the Green is currently closed to the public. However, we have created a dynamic new virtual series of talks with authors and historians (see what’s planned below), and new virtual exhibits featuring items from the archives. You can also read the latest issue of “Untold Tales of Falmouth” and catch up with previously published Tales here. Plus…there’s more to come!
The Museums on the Green is also seeking submissions for its “Covid-19 Archives”. Individuals, businesses and groups are invited to submit journals, essays, poems, photographs, songs, videos and other items that illustrate what life has been like in Falmouth during the 2020 pandemic. Later, we’ll share these stories and artifacts with you–and preserve them for generations to come in our new archives collection. MORE INFO
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VIRTUAL TALK: “George Washington, Entrepreneur” with John Berlau
February 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$10.00
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ENTREPRENEUR
How Our Founding Father’s Private Business Pursuits
Changed America and the World
Describe George Washington in three words. General. Statesman. Businessman. Wait–businessman? Just when you think you know everything there is to know about our first president, along comes a book like George Washington, Entrepreneur. While Washington was indeed a gifted general and a political pragmatist, he was also a patron of inventors, inveterate tinkerer and heavyweight thinker. He was the first to breed horses with donkeys to produce the American mule. He grew countless varieties of trees on his estate and built a greenhouse full of exotic fruits, herbs, and plants there. Unlike his Virginia neighbors who remained wedded to tobacco, Washington planted seven types of wheat. And, he built a state-of-the-art mill to produce flour which he exported to Europe in sacks stamped “G. Washington”―one of the very first branded food products in America. Mount Vernon was also home to a distillery and became one of the largest American whiskey producers of the era. This book is a refreshing look at a great man and a timely reminder of the role entrepreneurship played in this country’s history.
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