Date: July 29, 2004 Time: 12:00 AM Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Strother Conference - 2004

The Strother Conference 2004 was held in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the host hotel was the Holiday Inn Select.  Eighty members and guests enjoyed a schedule that focused on historic Strother-related sites around the Fredericksburg area and two other sites across the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland.  In addition to the Board and Business Meetings, attendees enjoyed the following:

• following Thursday's dinner, Anita Dodd, Archeology Laboratory Supervisor at the George Washington Foundation, provided an update on the events at Ferry Farm, followed by a Town Hall meeting.
• bus tour to Ferry Farm, St. John's Episcopal Church to view the Strother Silver Communion Service, and Millbank, then on to Charles County, MD, to tour the Samuel Mudd house and the Thomas Stone Historical Site.
• bus tour to Middletown, VA, to visit an historic inn and Vaucluse, a Strother ancestral home.
• the banquet speaker was William C. Clotworthy, Society member and author, on the subject "In The Footsteps of George Washington".  The complete text of his talk is published in the January 2005 and April 2005 editions of the Houses of Strother Newsletter.

For more details in the activities at the 2004 Conference and accompanying photographs, please check the October 2004 issue of the Houses of Strother Newsletter.