European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sulgrave Manor Washington shrine in us Ftp. The stars and stripes is flown daily at Sulgrave Manor part of which dates from 1200. Sulgrave has an original Stuart portrait. By Robert j. Dunphy staff writer president s historic ancestral Home near Usan bases was presented to american and British people in 1914 Kitchen of ancestral Washington Home often compared to mount Vernon. Retired curator Carter shows Usan visitors around grounds. The trouble with Trees that plagued George Washington even As a boy if we Are to believe the Parson Weems fable about the Cherry tree seems to have spread to Sulgrave Manor the ancestral Home of the Washington family in  Fine Tudor Manor House built in the mid logos by the fifth great grand father of America s first president is now a hallowed shrine in Britain. But it has tree trouble that even the boy Washington never  first Leafy tragedy to befall the Lovely Northamptonshire Home of the Washington was the recent loss of the american Elm planted non the Manor Lawnin 1932 with soil from every state in the  gift from the daughters of the Amer ican revolution the tree was a cutting from the venerable Elm at Cambridge mass., under which Washington took com Mand of the Continental army on july 3, 1775.after thriving at Sulgrave for 20 years the memorial Elm which was brought to England to Mark the 200th anniversary of Washington s birth suddenly began to Wilt said Cyril w. Carter 57-year-old curator of the Manor who succeeded his father to the Post in 1945.like George Washington himself Carter is a Man who cannot Tell a lie where Trees Are concerned. The curator related How the Elm disease spread like a cancer and even though we called in tree surgeons we could t save that one and finally had to chop it  most recent arboreal Accident at the Manor occurred while workmen were getting the House ready for the Observance of the 227th anniversary of Washington s birthday tomorrow one of the giant Elm that Border the estate crashed Down on a House across the  latest incident led to a Hasty decision to Cut Back All the elms on the grounds Carter said and thereby end once and for All Washington s traditional trouble with  with or without Trees Sulgrave Manor will continue to House the most important collection of washingtonian outside he us. Some 12,000 British and american visitors annually pay two shillings sixpence each 35 cents to Cross the  some 70 Miles Northwest of Lon Don on the fringe of the Shakespeare country around Stratford on Avon sul grave was the Home of Washington s ancestors for More than 100 years. The Manor House part of which dates Back to 1200, was presented to the Peoples of Britain and America in 1914 by a body of British subscribers in Observance of a saturday february 21. 1959 the stars and stripes Century of peace since the end of the War of 1812. Curator Carter s father now 82 and re tired was on the Job Back in those Days and attended the formal opening of the Manor on june 21, 1921. Even today he still puts in an appearance at the Manor almost daily just out of  site has been endowed in perpetuity by the National society of the colonial Dames of America and the restoration and furnishings have been carried out with impeccable taste and scholarly  House contains a veritable Treasury of washingtonian with new acquisitions be ing added yearly but the Washington coat of arms above the front Entrance generally brings the average visitor up Short. It contains three stars and two stripes and in some circles it is held to have been the origin of the stars and stripes in the american  the fireplace in the great Hall hangs the most valuable object in the Manor an original portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart greatest of America s Early artists. In one of the bedrooms upstairs is the most important piece of furniture inthe collection a carved and painted Hepple White chair which belonged to Washington at mount  in the Memorabilia Are Washington s saddlebags his velvet coat his liquor Cabinet and a lock of his hair a ring worn by the president containing an intaglio portrait of himself and his wife Are also displayed. The stars and stripes and Union Jack Are flown daily at Sulgrave Manor a shrine dedicated to the perpetuation of the Friend ship and Good will that exists Between the British and american Peoples. The Manor itself fittingly enough lie sin the midst of a Cluster of . Bases. Upper Heyford Croughton and Brize nor ton Are nearby and frequently run Tours of american school children to the  himself never visited eng land and consequently never saw the Man or. The spirit of the shrine however audits Beauty and serenity often Lead Amer ican visitors to compare it with mount  Man who has visited both shrines is Fred Carter the old curator who con ducted thousands of us. Servicemen through Sulgrave Manor at All hours of the Day  during world War  boys were going to War the old Man recalls today and i always figured they might not get Back to see the Manor they might never get another  Page ii