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The annual “A Midnight Clear” at the National Botanic Gardens recreates the monuments on the National Mall. This past weekend I took a stroll through the gardens and it was delightful. Besides all the holiday decorations, the display of multicolored poinsettias and tons of wide-eyed kids added to the holiday spirit.
The exhibit starts outside [...]
If getting down to the Mall and the National Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art for some outdoor ice skating, is difficult. Residents of Northern Virginia can enjoy a relaxing ice skating experience without the holiday Mall traffic and parking problems, at the Reston Town Center ice skating rink.
The rink is usually [...]
Perhaps the most unrecognized heroes of the Vietnam War were the 256,000 women who served in the Army, Navy, and Air Force during the war years. Among them, 11,000, mostly nurses and medical specialists, served in-country and in or near combat zones.
Working mostly in military hospitals, aboard ships and with evacuation squadrons, these brave [...]
A couple months ago, I took a drive out to Hains Point and took a few photographs of The Awakening, a 5-part aluminum sculpture by J. Seward Johnson, Jr.
At night, the statute takes on a completely different feeling.
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We’ve had our first snowfall of the season. The first frost of the season has come and gone, killing any Fall bedding plants. And the annual tradition of people freaking out due to a trace of snow on the roads has occurred, all without major death and destruction.
And sadly, that means most of the trees [...]
As one of DC’s newest memorials, the U.S. Air Force Memorial sits just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. The three stainless steel spires designed to resemble a bomb burst stand 270 feet tall and are visible from miles around.
The spires represent the three values of the Air Force, integrity, service before self and [...]
In its 19th year, the annual holiday Concert for Charity features the Catholic University Chorus of over 130 singers accompanied by their Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Basilica Choir.
The concert, held at the Bacilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception packs music lovers into the basilica’s upper church pews to standing-room-only capacity, [...]
America’s 32nd and only 4 term President (1933-45), Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation out of the Great Depression and through most of World War II.
Growing up in upstate New York, FDR won a seat on the New York State Senate and later was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow [...]
My first experience with “feminist art” was in 1980 when I attended the Judy Chicago exhibit of her piece The Dinner Party, in Chicago. The piece is a triangle table of 39 place settings representing mythical and historical famous women throughout history. The place setting for each woman represented was a ceramic plate that all depicted a flower-like sculpture, [...]
These photos were recently taken about an hour west of Washington, DC, at Manassas Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia, the site of the first Battle of Manassas in 1861 during the Civil War. Also called the first Battle of Bull Run. A year later, a second battle on the same site occurred. Over 80,000 soldiers [...]
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