White House Pigeons
As any visitor to Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. will tell you, pigeons are a universal feature of the...
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As any visitor to Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. will tell you, pigeons are a universal feature of the...
The primary Easter Monday entertainment at the White House has always involved egg rolling. Participants roll dyed, hard-boiled eggs across...
April showers might bring May flowers, but White House florists keep the Executive Mansion in bloom year-round. Today the White...
The stables, built on the White House grounds over a period of a century, were never intended to be great...
The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington D.C. was founded in 1802, shortly after Washington D.C. became...
George Washington in 1792 had set aside 85 acres for the “President’s Square,” presumably to have paddocks, sheepfolds, hay fields, meadows, and th...
The inspiration for renewing the rose garden at the White House came from President Kennedy in 1961. My involvement began at...
Many people consider raccoons to be pests and nuisances. These nocturnal mammals are often found rummaging through trash cans, dumpsters,...
In several ways, James Hoban’s life resembles the classic immigrant success story. Born to a modest family in County Ki...
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Nash Castro, the last surviving founder of the White House Historical Association,...
Of the first seven U.S. presidents, John Quincy Adams (JQA) and his father John Adams were the only two...
Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American man living in a slave state in the eighteenth century, never knew the weight of...