Past Newsletters
Fall 2024
Crazy quilts, plein air paintings of the farmhouse, and the history of Thanksgiving grace the pages of our Fall 2024 newsletter.
Late Summer 2024
This issue, we catch up with the summer events season at Cherry Hill, including summer camps, Vietnamese Heritage Day, and the Falls Church Women’s History Walk.
Mid-Spring 2024
Learn about the art in the farmhouse, nearby historic sites, and try Martha Washington’s pound cake recipe.
Winter 2023-24
Learn more about the unusual sewing machine upstairs, the success of the 2023 Holiday Shoppe, and the farmhouse’s Victorian Christmas decorations.
Winter 2023
In this issue, read about the 19th century’s version of “deep fakes,” and how a sack of flour came to be worth $275,000 in 1863!
Summer 2023
Farm to Farmhouse tastings, the fun of shelling corn in the Cherry Hill barn, and the technique behind two reverse glass paintings in the Farmhouse’s dining room.
Spring 2023
The Farmhouse’s role in the Falls Church World Art Day celebration, why Dorothea Dix was also known as “Dragon Dix,” and interpretations of the painting “Pic Nic on the Fourth of July,” a print of which hangs in the Farmhouse parlor.
Winter 2022
What winter on the farm would have been like for Mrs. Blaisdell, embroidery samplers in the Farmhouse bedrooms, and a recipe for “Mrs. Morse’s Tea Cake.”
Fall 2022
Cherry Hill summer camps, the history of the Farmhouse kitchen, and the local “Hope for Tomorrow” mural.
Spring/Summer 2022
The Farmhouse dining room’s reproduction wallpaper, and the 2022 Women’s History Walk, and how Edmonia Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about women and artists in mid-19th century America.