
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, November 11, 1995                   TAG: 9511130038
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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COOKING HISTORIAN HELEN BULLOCK DIES

Helen Duprey Bullock, a historian who specialized in preserving the nation's architectural, romantic and culinary heritages, died Nov. 1 at her home at the Thomas House retirement community in Washington. She was 90.

In a long and varied career, Bullock maintained a singular focus. Whether working as an archivist in Colonial Williamsburg in the 1920s and '30s, cataloguing Thomas Jefferson's papers at the University of Virginia and the Library of Congress in the 1940s or serving as a historical architectural specialist and information officer at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, she kept her sights on early American history.

``History isn't just great political events,'' she said in 1955. ``You can feel it in fabrics, taste it in cooking and see it in architecture.''

Bullock was a native of Oakland, Calif., and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Her books included "Williamsburg Art of Cookery" (1938) and "My Head and My Heart," an account of Thomas Jefferson's flirtation with Maria Cosway (1945.)

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