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Online Program: Night with a Museum Montpelier

What Visitors Remembered About James and Dolley Madison and Montpelier

Montpelier's senior Research Historian, Hilarie Hicks, shares about the people who visited the Madisons at Montpelier. Focusing on what visitors remembered and wrote about their visits, seeing the house, meeting the Madisons, and more. The Montpelier Foundation used these visitor accounts to help accurately furnish the house. This talk includes photographs of the recreated room settings. Great for anyone who has always wanted to visit James and Dolley Madison's home, but has not been able to.

About the Speaker:

Hilarie M. Hicks is currently the Senior Research Historian James Madison’s Montpelier, where she has been on staff since 2010. She served on the research and writing team for the award-winning exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour and is currently writing biographies of the enslaved for The Naming Project on Montpelier’s Digital Doorway website. She is also a regular contributor to the website’s “Digging Deeper” blog on a wide variety of Madisonian topics.

Hilarie serves as a judge in the We the People student civics competition and is a past board member of the Orange County Historical Society. Before coming to Montpelier, Hilarie served as Curator of Interpretation at Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens (New Bern, NC) and Executive Director of the Rosewell Foundation (Gloucester, VA). She is an alum of the College of William and Mary (B.A.), the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies (M.A.), and the Seminar for Historical Administration.

This program is online on Zoom. After registering, you receive a link to the Zoom webinar at least three hours before the program. This program is recorded and is shared with those who register within 24 hours of the program's end.

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