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Stratford Mail

Stratford Hall Historic Preserve, Dr. Gordon Blaine Steffey, Director of Research

Finally, a history podcast for folks on the go! Who can spare an hour these days? Give us about 20 minutes, and we"ll inform and entertain you!From Stratford Hall Historic Preserve in Westmoreland County, Virginia, join Vice President of Research and Collections Dr. Gordon Blaine Steffey as he reads over the shoulder of letter-writers of yesteryear.What to expect? Once a month we feature an historical letter from a onetime resident, associate, ally, or friend of Stratford Hall. Whether the topic is

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14:18

From Compulsion, Nothing

Stratford Mail ·

2025/08/26

Send us a text In October 1774, a congressional committee with Richard Henry Lee at the helm drafted a Petition to the King. The petition invited “royal attention” to colonial grievances in pursuit of a peaceful resolution to the mounting crisis. That petition died in Parliament, starved of attention, but it wasn’t the last formal attempt by the Continental Congress to seek conciliation with the mother country. Another attempt in the summer of 1775, milder in tone, and with the Congress divid...

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18:13

Wounds Too Deep

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2025/06/30

Send us a text 17 June 1775. The redoubt fortifying Breed’s Hill–not terribly far from the taller Bunker’s Hill–proved permeable to the advancing waves of better trained, better equipped British regulars. The British took Breed’s Hill, but paid a high price in men and perhaps an even higher price in emboldening colonial militia, who inflicted more than double the losses they sustained. ‘Bunker Hill’ was a point of no return for the colonies and Great Britain, but has often been returned to in...

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17:56

"A Very Warm Engagement"

Stratford Mail ·

2025/05/15

Send us a text British General Charles Cornwallis said it best: “The Rivers of Virginia are advantageous to an invading army.” In the spring of 1781, the Royal Navy and loyalist privateers raided along the major and minor waterways of the Chesapeake. The April 1781 log of the British war sloop HMS Savage offers a glimpse of the destruction wrought along the Potomac to warehouses, manufacturing facilities, homes and outbuildings, and it counts 50 or more enslaved Africans and African Americans...

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21:42

Another Woman's Mail

Stratford Mail ·

2025/03/27

Send us a text A 1781 letter written by Stratford-reared Alice Lee Shippen is mistakenly delivered to Braintree rather than to Boston. Politically literate, if shaped by family partiality, Alice's letter offers its unintended recipient clarity about intrigues involving an absent husband on diplomatic assignment. At the heart of these intrigues is a much beloved figure in the American mythos, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. But Dr. Franklin wasn't beloved by all, not quite the hero then that he has bec...

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8:59

In the Bleak Midwinter

Stratford Mail ·

2024/12/16

Send us a textOf the two epically scaled paintings of George Washington’s Delaware crossing, by far the most recognizable is Washington Crossing the Delaware by German-born, Philadelphia-raised Emanuel Leutze. This theatrical 1851 painting (measuring roughly 21 x 12 ft.) hangs today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its charismatic Washington commands the prow of the boat as around him the diverse peoples drawn into his orbit and the cause he represents struggle together in that cause. The l...

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16:14

Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

Stratford Mail ·

2024/10/28

Send us a textTime once again for a seasonal special edition of Stratford Mail. Visitors to Stratford are often struck by the wards against witches and evil spirits incised into its exterior brick and interior floors. These marks are reminders of our ancestors’ belief that this visible world overlapped an invisible world that was a source of both palpable wonders and terrors. Witches and conjured spirits were believed to gain access to homes through hearths, windows, and other openings, and h...

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17:56

School Days

Stratford Mail ·

2024/09/18

Send us a textBack to school with Stratford Mail! This month we think about educational opportunity in the Virginia colony. The rural Northern Neck was slow to develop the kind of city and district schools found in the more densely populated New England colonies. This posed no problem for elites, who could afford to engage private tutors for their children and complete their education abroad at one of the English grammar schools or domestically at one of the newly established colleges. Differ...

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12:21

Every Heart Throbs

Stratford Mail ·

2024/07/19

Before Beatlemania, there was Marquismania! 200 years ago this August, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to these shores after an absence of 40 years. In his 13-month 'farewell tour' of the 24 United States, the nation he helped to found, the Marquis was cheered and celebrated by grateful crowds in the hundreds and thousands. As the 50th anniversary of Independence loomed, nostalgia burned hot for heroes of the Revolution like the Marquis, whose generation was vanishing too quickly into memor...

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15:51

Resting in Peace

Stratford Mail ·

2024/06/03

Sociologist Émile Durkheim taught us that the study of human mourning raises a window on human values and lifeways. Returning after a brief hiatus, Stratford Mail ponders elite deathways in the Northern Neck, with close attention to the opinions of Robert Carter III, as recorded by Philip Vickers Fithian, the tutor at Carter's Nomini Hall. And we clear up confusion about the final resting place of Stratford's own Thomas and Hannah Lee, who chose not to be buried on the grounds of the home the...

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12:39

Hannah Corbin, Widow

Stratford Mail ·

2024/03/25

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Resistance & Resilience

Stratford Mail ·

2024/02/14

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14:32

The High Rollers

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2024/01/11

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Unfinished Business

Stratford Mail ·

2023/10/28

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14:28

Spy Games

Stratford Mail ·

2023/10/06

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14:45

Burning Peggy Stewart

Stratford Mail ·

2023/09/02

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All the Rage

Stratford Mail ·

2023/07/28

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Painting Mr. Pitt

Stratford Mail ·

2023/06/30

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Wine & Rattlesnakes

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2023/05/30

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17:29

In/human Traffic

Stratford Mail ·

2023/04/30

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13:12

Dear Cousin

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2023/03/31

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