Yarrow Mamout Going to National Portrait Gallery

The portrait of Yarrow Mamout — who arrived in America as a slave and died a well-known Georgetown merchant — on display at the Georgetown Public Library’s Peabody Room for years, is set to depart for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery at the end of June.

Join Peabody Room Director Jerry McCoy, James Johnston, author of “Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an American Family,” archaeologist Mia Carey (who worked on field study of the Dent Place property once owned by Mamout) and Muhammid Abdur Rahim at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 25, in the Peabody Room, to bid “Farewell, Yarrow!” The portrait will be on loan through 2019. So, go and see Yarrow downtown.