Title: George Washington Written Upon the Land : Nature, Memory, Myth & Landscape /
Authors: Levy, Philip, 1963-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Washington, George, Childhood and youth.; Washington, George, Homes and haunts Virginia Stafford County.; Washington, George, Public opinion.; Washington, George, In literature.; Washington, George, Homes and haunts Virginia.; Ferry Farm (Stafford County, Va.) History.; Surveyors Virginia Biography.; Material culture Virginia Stafford County History.; Landscapes Virginia Stafford County History.; Collective memory United States History.; Public opinion United States History; Ferry Farm (Stafford County, Va.) History.
Abstract: "In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington's childhood functioned--what sorts of lessons they sought to teach, and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: "The most storied ground in America" : an introduction -- "Somewhere this had beginnings" : unspooling Washington's childhood biography -- Completing the circuit of memory : Washington and his parting survey -- The subterranean young Washington : crafting a material narrative for the childhood years -- Fruits of morality and fruits of the market : Weems's idyll at the crossroads of war and markets -- "The local appellation based on tradition only" : making history from process at George Washington's surveying office -- To change the world : young George and Ferry Farm in the era of human-induced climate change.