On the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield party Friday afternoon, as members of the Daughters ...
George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...
On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history.
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual. In the early 19th century, for instance, a formal ...