By Kit Campbell and Adrien Penhoet   Welcome to the sixth and final week of Field School! This week the two of us were working on two adjacent units east […]

1 Shoe, 2 Shoe, Red White and Blue Too!   By Kate Wittich & Jessie Tabella   Welcome to Week 5 of Field School! This week we have been continuing […]

By James Royall   The latter half of Week Four was spent taking field trips to both Colonial Williamsburg and Historic Jamestowne. While at Colonial Williamsburg, we got a tour […]

It’s Not Always About Digging   By Kristen Wood Hi! I’m Kristen, one of this year’s field school students. By day, I’ve spent the last 20 years working in healthcare, […]

2026 Field School Week 3   By Dana Smith We started this week with a field trip to Monticello, Jefferson’s estate an hour north of Poplar Forest. The architecture really […]

  By Allison Jewell We started off Week 2 by completing the survey we began last week. We cleared off the first few layers as well as some potential features. […]

By: Abran Aguirre & Emma Hutter   Hi, this is Abran Aguirre and Emma Hutter, speaking about our experience in the first week of the Poplar Forest field school program. […]

By Brooks McCabe   It’s the sixth week and final week of Poplar Forest’s archaeology field school. This week, the students wrapped up their excavations, and each student gave a […]

By Nancy Williams   This week, we learned about and participated in Public Archaeology. On July 4th, many members of the public came down to the site to learn about […]

By Jackson DeWitt   Week 4 of the Poplar Forest field school was one of the most exciting yet! We started out the week by expanding two of the test […]

By Morgan Reeder   It was a busy week for the Poplar Forest field school! We started off by taking a field trip to Monticello on Monday. We had the […]

By Kaitlyn Holmes   In our second week here at Poplar Forest, the field school started by listening to a very important and interesting lecture on historic ceramics. After the […]