Ralph Warren Stanley and his wife Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on the porch at Mount Vernon

Identifier:
16638  
Accession #:
Title:
Ralph Warren Stanley and his wife Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on the porch at Mount Vernon
Subject:
Description:
This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge.
Address:
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy
Place:
Washington DC
State:
VA
Country:
USA
Date:
September 26, 1998

Citation

“Ralph Warren Stanley and his wife Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on the porch at Mount Vernon,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, accessed April 25, 2024, https://swhpl.digitalarchive.us/items/show/12788.Item 16638

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