Interested in attending these lectures? Give George Washington’s Mount Vernon home a call. Their number is 703-780-3600. They are located at 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway in Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121. Perhaps your travels will take you there. If not, you can attend virtually. You can also go to George Washington Library newsletter @mountvernon.org for more information. Tickets are available […]
By Robert Reed Valentines are not as old as love, or even the romantic holiday itself, but they have been around for a long time. Quite a number of authorities and historians consider Valentines to be one of the world’s oldest greeting cards, if not actually the first of their kind. One old English custom called for the drawing of […]
By Dianne L. Beetler When Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States, he brought two boys to the White House to live. They were his sons, 11-year-old Willie and 8-year-old Tad. The boys’ older brother, Bob, was in col-lege and spent little time in Washington, D.C. Because Washington was different from Springfield, Illinois, where the Lincolns had lived before […]
By Robert Reed Growing up the 1950s had to be a grand experience. A new decade of expansion and prosperity had replaced the years of economic depression and world war. Incomes were up as the nation entered the 1950s, and the sheer number of American families was on the increase. When Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 a delighted […]
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