Article: George Washington near a Cherry Tree.(Our Own Pages)(Illustration)

Article: Backstory: Cherry picking as civics lesson; Some inner-city kids ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  March 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... proposal the D.C. students insist: George Washington allegedly chopped down a cherry tree, and the district is host to the National ... Eric told the legend of Washington and the cherry tree, while Marcus talked about the festival ...

Article: TIME FOR MCLAREN'S HIDDEN TALENT TO SHOW K YLE MCLAREN, LAST SEEN ...
The Boston Globe;  December 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...That does not qualify as late-breaking news here in the Hub of Hockey. But it does qualify, at the very least, as curious, just as it is bizarre that McLaren has gone so underground that a Big Dig search party - $3,000 flashlights in hand - would be challenged to unearth the 6-foot-4-inch,

Article: Tree talk: George's cherry tree has more than 1 ...
Capital (Annapolis);  February 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... known than the legendary cherry tree chopped down by George Washington. As the story is told young ... the English or European cherry tree, Prunus avium - George ... by his father. Thus this cherry tree became part of folklore ...

Article: THE CHERRY TREE THAT WASN'T CHOPPED DOWN BY ...
The Virginian Pilot;  February 23, 1996 ;     685 words ... ... the site of George Washington's boyhood home ... his father's cherry tree. That fable ... beautiful little cherry tree yonder in the ... stone stood the cherry tree, which, according to tradition, George Washington, when a boy ...

Article: The Power and the Story: How the Crafted Presidential Narrative ...
Mother Jones;  September 1, 2004 ;     465 words ... ... Presidential Narrative Has Determined Success From George Washington to George W. Bush By Evan Cornog. The Penguin ... the relative unimportance of truth." From George Washington's cherry tree to George W. Bush's conflation of 9/11 ...

Article: Welcome home, Washington.(SOCIAL STUDIES)(George ...
WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin);  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... well-known tale about George Washington and the cherry tree? According to legend ... is a scientist with the George Washington Foundation, which owns ... What do you know about George Washington? Vocabulary artifacts ...

Article: Book provides damning look at George Washington; An ...
Indianapolis Recorder;  November 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... over the ages about George Washington as an honorable, cherry tree chopper who could ... in An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the ... popular catchphrase "George Washington slept here." In 1785 ...