The SAR MAGAZINE is the official quarterly publication of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution published quarterly.
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aaaaaaa president general, Central District, and his wife, April; James Stallings, senior vice president, Georgia Society SAR; Col. Joseph B. Neighbors III, president, Athens Chapter, and his wife, Lois; Virginia Grace Linglebach, state regent, Georgia State Society NSDAR; Amanda Garnett, senior state president, Georgia Society Children of the American Revolution; Robin Towns, national president, National Society Southern Dames of America, and debutante presentation chairwoman; Camille Baxter, chaplain general, National Society Southern Dames of America; Bonnell Lashley, president, Georgia Society Southern Dames of America; and Tommie Elaine Shattuck, treasurer general, National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars. Col. Robert F. Towns, NSSAR inspector general, served as emcee for the evening. Dr. Mark H. Pelton, associate vice president, Georgia College, served as debutante herald. Compatriot William G. Neely III and his wife, Kay, were sponsors for the Milledgeville Country Club. J. Michael Tomme served as grand marshall. Serving as pages were Abby Garnett, Emily Garnett and Olivia Pelton. The Highland Color Guard, consisting of Compatriots Jackson W. Guest, Virgil W. Palmer, William R. Galt III and Kirby M. Towns, all in magnificent traditional Scottish dress, did a fine job of presenting the colors. Those serving on the Colonial Ball Committee included Amelia Pelton, music; Camille Baxter, Robin Towns, and Compatriots Christopher W. Carter and Jackson W. Guest, decorations; and Cilla Leed Tomme, bouquets. Compatriot Larry Guzy and his wife, Karin, prepared the lovely corsages and boutonnieres. Following the early Saturday morning rehearsal, a mother-daughter luncheon was held during which each debutante received an engraved silver picture frame as a memento of the occasion. For the presentation, debutantes wore beautiful white ball gowns and long white gloves, and each carried a bouquet of one dozen white roses. After the formal debutante presentation, they danced with their presenters, and then with their escorts. The remainder of the evening was filled with a sumptuous buffet supper and dancing to the music of the Harmony Road Band. WINTER 2012-13 Exhibit Links 17th-Century Virginia Capital to Revolutionary Period M ore than 60 objects destined for exhibit at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will be on display in Jamestown's Legacy to the American Revolution, opening March 1 at Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia. The special exhibition, which continues through Jan. 20, 2014, examines the lives of Revolutionary War-era descendants of people associated with 17th-century Jamestown, the first capital of Colonial Virginia. Work is under way on the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, which will replace the Yorktown Victory Center by late 2016. The artifacts featured in Jamestown's Legacy to the American Revolution—a sampling of those to be exhibited in the new museum—include furnishings, weapons, nautical items, documents and commemorative objects. Among them are an American-made saber engraved with the owner's name and the year 1776, a trunk owned by a Continental Navy shipbuilder, and examples of 18th-century Virginia currency. The exhibition opens with "King George III's Virginia," illustrated with an 8-foot-tall portrait of the king in coronation robes, one of several done by the studio of Allan Ramsay between 1762 and 1784. From the time he ascended to the British throne in 1760, George III worked to strengthen British administration in the American Colonies, with his American subjects ultimately rising in opposition. In pre-Revolutionary Virginia, agriculture and trade drove the economy. A section titled "Merchants, Planters and Farmers" profiles Mary Cary Ambler, widow of Edward Ambler, a wealthy Yorktown merchant and planter, and John Ambler II, their son; and Azel Benthall, a small planter and church vestry clerk on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The Ambler family suffered serious financial reverses during the Revolution, while farmers like Benthall were better able to cope with William James Hubard's replica of the wartime shortages. Houdon statue of George Washington Col. Richard Taylor, who served with the First Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army, and Capt. Edward Travis IV, who served in the Virginia navy, are featured in "Soldiers and Sailors." Most Virginians who fought in the war were either militiamen or soldiers of the Continental Line. Virginia's small naval force operated chiefly to keep the state's rivers and the Chesapeake Bay safe from the British navy and to assist in transporting supplies for the Continental Army. "Statesmen and Diplomats" highlights individuals who supported the Patriot cause and the new nation as public officials. Arthur Lee served on diplomatic missions to Europe during the Revolution and later as a member of Congress. Richard Bland II was actively involved in events leading up to the Revolution, as a member of the Virginia committees of Correspondence and Public Safety and the Continental Congress. During and following the Revolution, Gen. Joseph Martin served as Virginia's agent for Indian Affairs, acting as a diplomat between the Cherokee and settlers who encroached on Indian lands. The exhibition concludes with an overview of the career of George Washington, whose ancestor, John Washington, arrived in Virginia in 1656 and later sat in the House of Burgesses at Jamestown. Less than a decade after leading the United States to victory as commander of the Continental Army, George Washington became the first president of the United States. A life-size statue, made in the 19th century by William James Hubard after an 18th-century work by Jean-Antoine Houdon, portrays Washington as a modern Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer who left his land to fight for his country and, after victory as a general, returned to his farm as a man of simplicity and peace. Jamestown's Legacy to the American Revolution is supported by grants from James City County, Altria Group and Dominion Resources. For more information, call 1-888-593-4682 toll-free or (757) 253-4838, or visit www.historyisfun.org. 13