Jul 1st, 2011 at 8:00AM: Earlier this week we recommended a number of fun things to do this long Fourth of July weekend in the national parks. Those suggestions included fireworks displays on the National Mall and a picnic at Valley Forge, amongst other things. It turns out we were just scratching the surface, as here are even more great events happening in the parks this weekend.
Colorado National Monument will once ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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More things to do in the national parks this weekend
Jul 1st, 2011 at 8:00AM: Earlier this week we recommended a number of fun things to do this long Fourth of July weekend in the national parks. Those suggestions included fireworks displays on the National Mall and a picnic at Valley Forge, amongst other things. It turns out we were just scratching the surface, as here are even more great events happening in the parks this weekend.
Colorado National Monument will once ...Drinking like George Washington - reasons to visit historic Mount Vernon this holiday weekend
Jun 30th, 2011 at 12:30PM: If there's drinking involved, there's a good chance that a we're all over it. When the chance to combine drinking (rare liquors), history, and a holiday weekend arises .... well, we're even more intrigued.
In honor of the country's most patriotic holiday, Mount Vernon is displaying a rare 18th century letter penned by the first President and country's most famous distiller, George Washington, ...Turkey with presidential pardon not going to Disneyland
Nov 20th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Each year just before Thanksgiving, the president pardons a turkey in a ceremony at the White House, saving that turkey from its likely fate atop a dining table. But this year, that turkey is not going to Disneyland.
Disney started flying the pardoned turkeys to California in 2005, when Disneyland was celebrating its 50th anniversary. The turkey has served as grand marshal of the the Disneyland ...See the financial crisis on this unusual Wall Street tour
Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:00PM: It's rare that you get a guided tour through still unfolding carnage. Imagine walking through Aceh right after the tsunami or New Orleans while the rains from Katrina still fell. Lower Manhattan's financial crisis tour doesn't involve as much bad weather or physical danger, but it does give you the chance to learn about the most profound financial disaster in decades in the place where it all ...See how the presidents live away from home
Feb 16th, 2009 at 3:00PM: There's more to the presidency than the White House. From Camp David to presidential libraries across the country, there are plenty of portals into the lives of those who have held the most powerful office in the world. In fact, the real insights may come not from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but from these other homes. A recent article on CNN offers five prime locations. Lincoln's Birthplace: Run by ...Washington's birthday--a virtual tour of Mt. Vernon
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 5:20PM: Earlier this week I headed to Mt. Vernon. Not physically, but via Mt. Vernon's Web site. I see lots and lots and lots of Web sites. Web site hopping is a great way to pass writing time. Mt. Vernon's Web site is the Rolls Royce of sites. There is so much material that it's easy to get lost in the wandering.
Details range from the reconstruction of a slave cabin to how to make Martha Washington's ...The Wall Street District is Officially Historic
Mar 7th, 2007 at 10:17PM: Every day I pay a bit of attention, not much, to what Wall Street is doing. I generally have a vague notion of what it means when I hear the Dow is up or down. Up is good. Down is bad. I think. Regardless of my fuzziness about finances, Wall Street's placement on the National Register of Historic Places is something I can understand.
Consider this. Wall Street, the street not the district, was ...
