Anne Husted Burleigh wrote a wise little book called Journey Up the River. One of her vignettes is about a play Thornton Wilder wrote that I think about when I think of the Germanna Foundation: The Christmas Dinner. The theme of the bond of succeeding generations is depicted as a long banquet, a continual Christmas […]
Germanna Foundation Announces New President
The Germanna Foundation is pleased to announce that as of November 7, 2020, Keith Hoffman will serve as the Foundation’s next president. Keith succeeds Marc Wheat, who served as president since 2008. Keith joined the Board of Trustees in 2012 and became Treasurer in 2013. His father was born in a community of Germanna descendants […]
Honoring Veterans
On November 11, the Germanna Foundation honored America’s military veterans by holding a ceremony in the Memorial Garden on the Fort Germanna Visitor Center campus and ringing Germanna’s bell 21 times. Luminaries were placed in the garden marked with the following names and their military service provided by donors. We are grateful for veterans and […]
Russell Amos Hitt 1935-2020
It is with a heavy heart that the Board of Trustees of the Germanna Foundation announces the passing of our great friend, benefactor, and Honorary Trustee Russell A. Hitt. Russell, and his wife Joan, supported Germanna in a variety of ways: providing funding and technical assistance to the Foundation when Salubria was damaged in the […]
Germanna Connection of Superintendent of Independence National Park
Decades-long friend of the Germanna Foundation Cynthia MacLeod, Superintendent of Independence National Park, welcomes you to ceremonies in and around Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Her husband Doug Harnsberger is a former trustee of the Germanna Foundation and architect of the Fort Germanna Visitor Center in Locust Grove, VA. The Germanna Foundation is proud […]
Remembering D-Day
On June 6, Americans think of the greatest beaches in the world: Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold, and Sword. On that day so many years ago, Americans and their allies hit the beaches to liberate a continent from the evil of National Socialism. We did more than liberate the continent. America represented what was good and […]
50th Anniversary of the First Germanna Descendant to Explore the Moon
UPDATE: Chart showing Aldrin’s Germanna connections (pdf) 50 years ago today, July 20. 1969, Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made the historic first landing on the Moon. After taking communion, he then descended down the ladder of the lunar module Eagle to become the first Germanna descendant to explore the Moon. Descending from the Fischbach […]
Remembering the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
Today, Americans think of the greatest beaches in the world: Omaha, Utah, Juno, Gold, and Sword. Seventy-five years ago today, Americans and their allies hit the beaches to liberate a continent from the evil of National Socialism. Thanks to the outpouring of Germanna Foundation supporters who, during the seventieth anniversary in 2014, asked that the […]
Honor a Mother on Mother’s Day
Germanna Foundation takes the time to honor and remember our mothers and foremothers. Pioneering women in North America have been around for centuries. 400 years ago, in 1619, more than 100 women were brought to Jamestown as a way of bringing stability to Virginia and ensuring the first permanent English settlement would grow and flourish. […]
Frank Turnage
I am saddened to report the death of our friend, Dr. Frank Turnage, former Executive Director of the Germanna Foundation and serving as Trustee Emeritus at the time of his death. Frank, whose roots go back to colonial North Carolina and Virginia, had a long and distinguished career in the Virginia Community College System and […]
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