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October 28, 2020

10.10.20 – National Museum of the American Sailor

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] CHAPTER XIV-CHICAGO ~~~In spite of the Covid closing, Chapter President Sharon Hare and her chapter give major support to the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SAILOR. This museum is the chapter's primary project. Sharon reports that they recently “attended”...

October 6, 2020

10.5.20 – Fall Benefit Cocktail Recipes

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] What will you be sipping on during the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum's 2020 Virtual Fall Benefit? Consider preparing a drink recipe from the CDA cookbook to enjoy as you listen to Adryn Sumner's beautiful piano performance and Shelby Carr's...

September 23, 2020

9.23.20 – Kathy Springhorn Wedding Announcement

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] The Colonial Dames of America Is pleased to announce the marriage of Miss Kathleen Elizabeth Springhorn and Mr. Thomas John Dillman. They were married Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at the Lago Mar Beach Resort & Club in Fort...

September 23, 2020

9.20.20 – Jamestown Gate Rededication Anniversary

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] CDA MEMORIES Last year, September 2019 the CDA JAMESTOWN MEMORIAL GATES were rededicated on Jamestown Island, Virginia - site of the first permanent English settlement in North America 1607. The CDA Rededication ceremony took place after $40,000 restoration paid...

August 23, 2020

8.23.20 – “Queen of Denver” at the Brown Palace Hotel

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Shelby Carr is a Parent Chapter member and author of the new book The Queen of Denver. Enjoy her entertaining narrative about Louise Sneed Hill as she ruled over Denver's high society during the Gilded Age during the...

August 18, 2020

8.15.20 – Knowles’ 50th Wedding Anniversary

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_single_image image="9977" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_empty_space height="25px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] CDA wishes a happy 50th Wedding Anniversary to a very special couple - CDA President General Brantley Bolling Knowles and her husband Peter Knowles! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text] The Knowles were able...

August 18, 2020

8.8.20 – CDA Insignia Refurbishment

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] The new option to refurbish CDA insignia can completely change the look of an old insignia. Pictured here is an example courtesy of CDA Chapter XX-Los Angeles President Shari Worrell. The "before" on the left shows faded ribbon...

August 18, 2020

8.7.20 – Hearst Fellows Symposium

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Thank you to all the Dames that attended last week's Virtual Hearst Fellows Symposium by the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (MVHM)! [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_column_text] Hearst Fellow Maya Coleman presented on the African-American experience in New York City after the...

July 27, 2020

7.20.20 – A Writer’s 1829 Visit to the MVHM&G

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]In the early 1800s, Mount Vernon was located far from the city, which barely existed past 14th Street. The hotel was originally built as the carriage house for the planned country estate for Abigail Adams Smith (President Adams’...

July 6, 2020

7.6.20 – Col. Joseph Coleman Hart (1798-1855)

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Col. Joseph Coleman Hart was a "Renaissance Man," although he was best known to CDA as the founder & proprietor of The Mount Vernon Hotel (now Museum), a day hotel in New York’s Upper East Side in the...