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  Rocket

  Rocket

  This Student Academy Award® winning short film takes you behind the wheel of 1950's dirt track racing. With a legacy traditionally passed down from father to son, Annie (Lizzie Clarke) builds a destiny all her own.

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  How Ruth Adler Schnee Led the Way for...

  How Ruth Adler Schnee Led the Way for...

  Pins strewn about her sewing table. Snowflakes under a microscope. A stack of firewood. Pioneering textile artist Ruth Adler Schnee took inspiration from the world around her, both the fantastic and the mundane. She created strikingly modern abstract and often organic forms.

  Known for her organi...

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  Nelly Custis' Original Handmade Music...

  Nelly Custis' Original Handmade Music...

  George Washington's step-granddaughter is described in letters and other primary sources as a highly-skilled musician. We have several volumes of Nelly's hand-copied musical exercises, popular songs, and technical notes in the Mount Vernon collection. Dr. Joyce Lindorff studied these documents as...