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. […]

This summer, Nicole Finnigan (Catholic University ’25) joined us as our 2025 Summer Research Intern. We were so excited to have Nicole help teach and oversee students for this summer’s […]

By: Bethany Byrd and Aurora Summerlin As all good things must come to an end, this week was the final week of field school here at Poplar Forest. We spent […]

By: Felix Haase and Thomas Hayman   Independence Day at Poplar Forest   This week at the Poplar Forest Field School was quite an eventful one, as most of them […]

By: Sam Brown and Quinn Fergusson Hi everyone! This past week, after many days hard at work on the grounds of Poplar Forest, the archaeology field school went on a […]

By: Ben Solomon and Andrew Lineberry Ben and Andrew here! The topic of this week was landscape and environmental archaeology, which is the study of how humans shape and are […]

By: Matthew Marsden & Wallace Payne Week 3 at the 2025 Poplar Forest Field School is complete, with a whole host of experiences to reflect on. From touring Monticello, Thomas […]