Opportunities for public participation, laboratory work, field school, and programs for teaches and students. Participants will look for evidence of a house dated 1616 at Smith's Town Land and the possible site of Maryland's first printer. May 4th deadline. The Classical Summer School is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the ancient city of Rome and its immediate environs from the earliest times to the age of Constantine, through a careful study of material remains and literary sources. Field trips to major sites in Latium and Etruria will be included.
Scholarships are available.
Deadline for applications is March 1. Ann Vasaly of Boston University is the director. Albert J. Ammerman of Colgate Univ. is the director. The focus of this field school at Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason, is the plantation's Colonial-era boxwood garden, the oldest plants in Virginia, and begin the surey to located plantation outbuildings. The research will guide a replanting of the garden for 2001.