Fairfax County Park Authority
        Press Release

Off to Bed!  Preparing for Sleep in Early America - Where Americans slept,
their beds and coverings, sleepwear and bedtime stories between 1750 and
1850 are the topics of an upcoming symposium sponsored by the Fairfax County
Park Authority and George Mason University.  The program will be presented
on Friday, March 17, 2000, at George Mason University.  Karin Calvert
(National Faculty) surveys the social customs involving sleeping and the
bedchamber, Brad Rauschenberg (Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts)
traces changing styles in bedstead forms and associated furniture, Kimberly
Smith Ivey (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) explores the covers and
hangings that dressed the bedstead, Neville Thompson (Winterthur Museum and
Library) reviews popular literature and bedtime reading, and Kristina
Haugland (Philadelphia Museum of Art) examines the clothing early Americans
wore to bed.

Registrations must be received by March 6, 2000.  The registration fee of
$45.00 covers all sessions of the symposium, parking and lunch.  For
information and registration forms write to the Collections Manager, Fairfax
County Park Authority, 12055 Government Center Parkway, Suite 927, Fairfax,
Virginia, 22035-1118, phone (703) 631-1429, or fax (703) 378-2535.

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