As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of Independence, I was curious as to what was happening this week in 1776. March 17, 1776 The British evacuated Boston on March 17, 1776 after the Continental Army ended its 11-month siege by fortifying Dorchester Heights with cannons from Fort Ticonderoga….
Having been to Port Orchard, Washington three years in a row, even with my limited vision, I have come to know what the coast of Bremerton, across Puget Sound, looks like. During our most recent trip, I noticed a large white something that had not been there before, so I…
What is it about snow that makes the world appear so magical? I completely understand the hassle and danger that snow can create, but if you have nowhere you have to be, and shoveling is not required at this moment, the brilliant white covering will transform your world. If I…
Sister Rain’s Note: This is the fifth story about Wreaths Across America. To read the previous posts, click on the following: Wreaths Across America – The Day Wreaths Across America – The Person Wreaths Across America – The Essay Wreaths Across America – The Craft I have previously written…
Arriving at Washington Crossing Historic Park for the annual reenactment of Washington Crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day as we have done the previous two years (click here for He’s No Chicken But He Crossed The River To Get To The Other Side), my husband immediately noticed that there were…
One of my recent trips to Washington, DC was during the government shutdown. It was eerie how empty the streets were. I had experienced this once before, during COVID, both times there was a sense of finding oneself in a post-apocalyptic world where you are one of the few people…
I have seen the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC many times from a distance but have never actually visited it. Although all of our Founding Fathers were human and endowed with the unalienable right to flaws, the more I learn about the third President of the United States, the more…
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….
