Displayed in the window of the Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC since 2017 (not to be confused with that other theater), is a twice life-size, full-color, hyper-realistic head of President Abraham Lincoln. It was created in 2013 by two-time Academy Award winning makeup artist Kazu (Kazuhiro) Tsuji, and is made…
In an otherwise empty field at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC, there are twenty-two massive Corinthian sandstone columns that were a part of the US Capitol’s east portico from 1828 to 1958. When the Capitol dome, familiar to us all, was completed decades earlier in the 1860s, it made…
Titled “Public Figures,” this piece of public art was created by Do Ho Suh in 2024 and is located outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC. What’s the big deal, you may be wondering. Large white pedestals can be found under statues all over the city….
The hitching post that President Abraham Lincoln used when he attended services at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC from 1861 until his death in 1865 still stands. Located just three blocks east of The White House, people would often gather and greet the first family as they…
While this monument can be found in Washington, DC, it honors a different George. George Mason was an American Founding Father and Virginia statesman. He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, an inspiration for Thomas Jefferson as he prepared the Declaration of Independence. According to the National Park Service, Mason…
Mama Ayesha Abraham was born in Jerusalem in the late 1800s. Coming to the United States and Washington, DC in the late 1940s, she was hired as a cook for the Syrian Embassy. After her stint there, as well as working at several DC restaurants, she opened her first eatery…
The marble statue of President Abraham Lincoln by Irish sculptor Lot Flannery, located in Washington, DC, is the nation’s oldest memorial to the president. Flannery had known Lincoln and was at Ford’s Theatre the night of the assassination. This is the only statue of Lincoln created by someone who knew…
I have been to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland on several occasions, and each time, when the movie shown in the Visitor Center is over, as “The Star-Spangled Banenr” plays and the curtain opens, revealing the American flag flying over the fort, I am deeply moved. On September 14, 1814,…
Built in 1775, this meeting house on High Street in Mount Holly, New Jersey played a significant role in the Revolutionary War, being used by the State Legislature when the British captured Trenton. In addition to weekly Quaker meetings, the building continues to serve its community with programs, plays, art…
Whenever you drive around a city full of historical landmarks, almost every other building that you pass begins to look as though it has been around for a very long time and surely has a story to tell. Such was the case when my husband and I were in Burlington,…
