12/14/98

Doak House Museum Open House

Around 70 guests visited the Doak House Museum Sunday, Dec. 13, 1998, during the Museum's three-hour open house. Below are some scenes from the event.

Museum studies student Matt Roach gave tours of the Doak house kitchen, while museum studies student Cary Trevor entertained guests with music.

 

Margaret Ramsey Bible, of Abingdon, Va., (right) used to live in the Doak House when it was still a residence. Above, she shows Cindy Lucas, associate director of the Doak House, a secret hiding place (which none of the museum staff had found yet) in Samuel Witherspoon's tall secretery.
Our twentieth-century Sam Doak (right) a seventh-generation descendant of Tusculum's co-founder, greeted open house attendees, along with his wife Emily (not pictured).
Above (right and left), children visiting the open house made their own ornaments to take home.