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Virginia Cider: From Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age, Thursday, October 17, 2024 12:00PM

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From Thursday, July 25, 2024 12:00PM to Thursday, January 30, 2025 12:00PM
VMHC Scholar Series

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Thursday, October 17, 2024 12:00PM

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Virginia Cider: From Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age

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Book Cover - Virginia Cider A  cultural phenomenon with surprisingly deep roots, cider has been one of Virginia’s favorite beverages for more than four hundred years, representing a time-honored ingredient of the cultural heritage that the first English settlers brought with them to America. Since the seventeenth century, apple orchards have been a fixture of the farming landscape, and cider was made and consumed by almost everyone—men, women, and children of all socioeconomic orders throughout the state’s history. Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of cider culture and cultivation, and today cider-making is a thriving craft-beverage industry, gaining ever-greater numbers of enthusiasts and connoisseurs as more and more cideries spring up every year. This lecture will look at the history of cider making in the Old Dominion with a specific focus on production in colonial Virginia.  Prominent planters like Jefferson, Washington, and others dedicated large amounts of resources including enslaved laborers to create this staple beverage.  Alongside this cider history, Hansard will also describe the state of cider in Virginia today with particular attention paid to heirloom cider apples, the unique terroir of the region, and the cideries that make this tasty elixir. 

Mr. Hansard teaches history and museum studies at Brightpoint Community College. He previously worked at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture as Manager of Web and Digital Resources and as Assistant Editor of Publications. Greg is the author of German Sailors in Hampton Roads: A World War I Story at the Norfolk Navy Yard and Virginia Cider:  A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age.  

The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

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