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Bring Back Washington's Birthday

The park was established in 1904. Long before the internet, Facebook and Twitter, young folks memorialized romantic relationships and themselves by carving their initials, their names, slogans, and symbols into the bark of trees with their pocket knives.

Mason Locke Weems was born in Maryland in 1759. In 1784, he was ordained a minister by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the rector of two churches in Maryland

The story behind the legend of George Washington and the cherry tree.

Millie and I paid a visit to Washington Monument State Park this past week on a chilly, overcast April day. We had set up camp at nearby Greenbrier State Park, just a little more than two miles away along the Appalachian Trail.

Washington’s Georgetown Day School does indeed teach inclusion—kind of like Houston’s elite St. John’s School.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Among American heroes, Lincoln continues to have a unique appeal for his fellow countrymen and also for people of other lands.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the...

His 'deepest food memories attach to Maine, where his grandparents had an old house, and to the cuisine of New England in general,' a 2009 New York Times book review stated.

His 'deepest food memories attach to Maine, where his grandparents had an old house, and to the cuisine of New England in general,' a 2009 New York Times book review stated.