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"A Parish and its People" |
Grades: 6-12 |
This exciting educational program offers middle and high school students an in-depth look at life in colonial Virginia through examining one of its primary institutions: the Anglican church. Explore the unique architecture of Christ Church and learn the basic principles of Georgian architecture. Examine the fine details in Christ Church’s wood, stone, and brickwork, and learn the technologies employed by colonial craftsmen. Imagine life in 1735 as you take your seat in the only collection of high-backed pews surviving from colonial Virginia. Inspect the unusual triple-decker pulpit and interior seating arrangements for clues about the social structure of colonial Virginia and the role of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century religion. Read an actual proclamation or law recited from pulpits across colonial Virginia to understand the relationship between church and state before the Revolution. Stroll the church grounds and examine diaries and colonial newspapers for primary accounts of community life played out in parish churchyards. In a tour of the museum, discover artifacts from both the church and Robert “King” Carter’s Corotoman mansion, which burned in 1729. |
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