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WHAT: "Fare for All at the Mount Vernon Hotel"
WHY: It's a play that allows its viewers to become a part of the Abigail Adams Smith Museum's history.
Barbara Hayward, director of the museum, beckons visitors to "come in, walk up our stone steps, through our wrought iron gates and into the beautiful 1800s."
The museum's building was constructed in 1799 as a carriage house for Abigail Adams Smith, the daughter of our second president, John Adams. It was later sold and turned into the Mount Vernon Hotel, a country day resort that was popular to middle-class New Yorkers and travelers from 1826 to 1833.
"We commissioned the play as a way for us to tell...