George Washington Birthplace National Monument and the Northern Neck National Heritage Area invite the public to celebrate the 293rd birthday of the nation’s first president in the park on Saturday, ...
On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history. Our nation’s first president was born near Popes Creek, Virginia, on February 11, 1731. That date might have ...
Despite rainy weather, more than 100 turn out at a soggy Washington Crossing Historic Park to celebrate Washington's birthday ...
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Friday that would establish President Trump’s birthday, June 14, as a public ...
George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating the first U.S. president on Monday.
U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and ...
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others ...