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 or triple dipping for Wilson. The Wilson Center was created four decades ago as a “living memorial” to Wilson. South of Washington lies a Wilson Bridge. 
It’s opening happened to fall during his centennial year, so he got the slot, despite having no known ties to the region or river.
Staunton needs the money, ’cause they got nothing. He spent more of his childhood elsewhere, his papers are elsewhere [“The archives microfilm collection includes the Wilson holdings at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. “]
What’s the answer? Showmanship!
“Rather than a timeline of facts and dates, the museum aims to turn history into a visceral experience. ”
The magic begins on their web page, where a lovely photo of black children is adorned with a lofty Wilson quote. His real feelings about black people were rather different, as reflected in his plug for “Birth of a Nation”. 
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 the early 20th Century. 
That house was built on a site misidentified by Washington’s adopted son, George Washington Custis.
Telltale Ferry Farm remnants include a masonic pipe and a type of gem often traded from India to West Africa, and presumably brought to Virginia through some path coming out of the slave trade.
You can go back to near the birth of the Father of Our Country, but you can’t escape Original Sin!
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.
Barack Obama has topped that on a visit to the Independence shrine, imagining Truman did it with no security.
“The thing that I envy most about Truman was that when he was in the White House, he could go out and take a walk. He could put on that fedora and take a stroll, without someone following himâ€
Obama had better watch his back. While he hit the Truman Memorial Building, and Truman’s home, Obama skipped the Truman Library, making the Library Board Chairman all huffy.
Trumanesque or Trumanish? 
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 Alexandria Virginia has languished on the market lately. To our knowledge there have recently been two Nixons and a Kennedy sold, a Harding changed hands in 2004, a Reagan in 2000, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s former home is for rent.
No word if the Colorado Ford property includes his home x-ray machine.
