Events for August 2020

Check out the Roots Warehouse Sale in Georgetown! Up to 75% off all merchandise including apparel, shoes, accessories and more.

Georgetown Main Street has joined several other community-based organizations to bring DC a virtual shopping promotion this weekend. Over 150 small businesses across the 40 DC neighborhoods are offering special sales, gifts with purchase, discounts, and more - plus sidewalk sales in Georgetown.

Join Dumbarton House staff and George Washington University history professor Dr. David Silverman for a discussion of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt.

The true Italian culinary experience extends far beyond a restaurant with an Officina Picnic Kit.

A free weekly delivery service that brings the Italian culinary experience to your door every Wednesday.

Officina has curated a Picnic Kit in fond recollection of days spent with friends sipping wine, sampling salumi, and creating memories in a most al fresco way across Italy.

Join guest curator Kelly Bresnowitz and Dumbarton House staff to talk about our current exhibition, Pick Your Poison, which explores drinking in the Federal period. After Kelly’s remarks and a Q&A about how our forebears imbibed, we will reimagine a classic colonial cocktail.

Join Dumbarton House staff for a virtual tea party! During this two hour program, we will bake a federal period tea time snack, make tea sandwiches and learn about proper table settings and etiquette.