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ties to make him interesting to young people.”
Washington was such an athlete with a reputation, Rees says, that an invitation to ride with him to the hounds was akin “to a kid being asked today to shoot hoops with Michael Jordan.” , The new 65,000-square foot education and museum complex at Mount Vernon, which will cost $85 million and should be ready for visitors at the end of 2006, will feature nine videos of Washington from the History Channel and a 20-minute movie about Washington as a young man. The film will be directed by Ron Maxwell, who lives about a quarter mile from Rees’ log cabin. The museum complex will also feature displays of Washington’s clothes and of course his false teeth.
“People want to have fun,” says Rees, who reveals a secret that Mount Vernon has owned Washington’s false teeth for more than a century, but displaying them until now, he says, “was felt to be too personal. But if the next 30 years are as costly to his reputation as the last 30, he will be lost. We are pulling out all the stops.” Including the teeth.
The new complex will be built on Mount Vernon’s verdant grounds, with more than two-thirds of its structure underground. “Sheep will graze on top,” says Rees, “so as not to disrupt your history.”
In that respect, he wants for us to understand Washington in ways we have never known him, or as Rees expresses it, “a whole new expression of who Washington was.”
He is called “The Indispensable Man,” who had to find his own way when his father died at 11 and he became the older son of the second wife.
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