Dr Philip Levy is a Professor of History at the University of South Florida and was a member of the 201516 class of fellows at the Washington Library In 2008 he won international attention for coleading the team that found the remains of George Washingtons childhood home at Ferry Farm in Fredericksburg Virginia the saga of which he recounted in his 2013 book Where the Cherry Tree Grew The Story of Ferry Farm George Washingtons Boyhood Home His latest book George Washington Written Upon the Land explores the many retellings of Washingtons muchfabled childhood and covers themes ranging from biography to archaeology and environmental history to rabbinic thought