Mount Vernon is Ours Author:Elswyth Thane This is the amazing story of the rescue of Mount Vernon from near ruin. It is also the story of an unknown American heroine, Ann Pamela Cunningham, the extraordinary founder of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. — There was a time when the great Potomac River plantation of George Washington was in a shocking state of disrepair. Washington's ... more »noted biographer, Elswyth Thane, now records for posterity the remarkable story of the house's preservation, set in a period that was one of the most turbulent in American History.« less