Christopher Hendricks

Background

About Christopher Hendricks

I specialize in Colonial and Early National American history, specifically, backcountry town development in the Upper South and the Moravians of North Carolina. Having worked in museum settings such as Old Salem, Inc, Historic Bethabara Park, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, three museums which specialize in interpreting the eighteenth century, I have done extensive work in craft demonstration (blacksmithing, tobacco processing, vegetable dyeing, timber framing, and gardening), historical archaeology, first-person character interpretation, and seventeenth and eighteenth-century dance performance. I have developed a current research interest in early American foodways. My focus has been the work of Mary Randolph and her classic cookbook, The Virginia Housewife.