PRESIDENTIAL HOMES Archive

Little Professor
Presidential Memorializing continues spinning backwards in time, with the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library the latest fatuous exercise.
Wilson was born in Staunton Virginia, but his parents left town when he was four. From these slender roots the town has metastasized a Presidential Library, now to receive federal funding.
The Library represents double […]

Boyhood Home Revealed!
Excitement reins at Ferry Farm, scene of George Washington cannoting to tell a lie and other legends. An archaeological dig has revealed the foundations of what is thought to be his childhood home.
The Ferry Farm drawing bares a remarkable resemblance to the house built near Washington’s birthplace in […]

Invisible Man
The timeless aura of Plain Speakin’ & Brisk Walking Harry Truman claims another victim.
The 2008 campaign has already featured John Mccain wistfully recalling halcyon days when Truman strolled the capitol, accompanied by a single Secret Service agent.
Barak Obama has topped that on a visit to the Independence shrine, imagining Truman did it […]

It Ain’t Fitting
Via the abrahamlincolnblog comes word of an Oregon Lincoln statue decapitation, now headless for the 5th time.
Ashland Oregon is the scene for this repeat crime, the latest of a string dating back to the 1950s.

Up Where We Belong
Gerald Ford’s former Colorado home is for sale, and the frenzy is unrestrained!

“To our knowledge, it has been generations since the home of a former President has been offered to the open marketplace…and this is the only one in history to have such a prized location.“

Well.
Ford’s own home in […]