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….
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…
