Enslaved “Runaway” Ads
One of the things that we are always interested in is attempting to contextualize the Morgan Log House within the period in which it was built. In thinking about our new federal holiday, Juneteenth (which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people), it is...
What I Learned Learning to Make Hair Art
By: Tim Betz, Executive Director, Morgan Log House A completed example of a hair art flower. One of the historic trades and crafts that we have recently explored in a History Happy Hour and as part of some special tours on site is the nineteenth-century tradition of...
Welcome to our Cabinet of Curiosities!
The Morgan Log House has just opened a Cabinet of Curiosities. In it, you can enjoy objects from our collection that are not normally on view in this open storage space as part of a regular tour. Museums are homes of history. At the Morgan Log House, we tell about the...
This is a Locust Year: The Periodical Cicada in Cicada Country
Illustration of the Periodical Cicada, from The American Entomologist ca. 1880 "They usually come out of their holes at night and climb trees and the stems of plants. The nymphal cases, which split on top as the insects emerge, are discarded, but remain...
Learning about the Morgan Log House through Archaeology and Restoration
The Morgan Log House is the museum's greatest artifact. It is also one of its biggest puzzle pieces. We are still piecing together much about the lives of the people who lived here from 1708 through the 1960's, but the two most solid ways we've learned about the...
Inoculating America: Smallpox and the American Revolution
“We shall continue the utmost Vigilance against this most dangerous Enemy,” wrote George Washington in a letter to John Hancock on the 21st of July, 1775, after receiving command of the Continental Army. Washington certainly had many dangerous enemies to consider:...