Nash Castro: A Board Member's Role with the Kennedy Rose Garden
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Nash Castro, the last surviving founder of the White House Historical Association,...
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I recently had the opportunity to visit with Nash Castro, the last surviving founder of the White House Historical Association,...
The inspiration for renewing the rose garden at the White House came from President Kennedy in 1961. My involvement began at...
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 First Baptist Church of the City of Washington D.C. was founded in 1802, shortly after Washington D.C. became...
Tucked away on the South Lawn, behind a tall hedge of hollies, is the White House Children’s Garden, a sp...
The primary Easter Monday entertainment at the White House has always involved egg rolling. Participants roll dyed, hard-boiled eggs across...
In the early days of gardening at the White House, the gardens were fenced away to facilitate care and watering....
From its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth and into the early twentieth century, the historic preservation movement in the United States...
Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American man living in a slave state in the eighteenth century, never knew the weight of...
In November 1845, Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon arrived for the “season” in Washington, D.C., with her family. Her husband, James Dixo...
At the end of World War I, over 200,000 wounded soldiers returned home to the United States. To help these veterans...
Uncovering the lives of enslaved people poses many challenges. Because enslaved people were denied the right of literacy, as a...