If your children love books like “The Way Things Work” by David Macaulay or trying their hands at different crafts, they'll have a good time at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The annual celebration on the National Mall opened just in time for the 4th of July amid heat, humidity, and thunderstorms. This year, the…
Moses Williams worked on the second floor of Independence Hall as a black slave, cutting silhouettes in famed artist Charles Willson Peale's studio. Freed by Peale in 1803, Williams continued the craft until at least 1833 as a free man. His “Silhouette of a Boy” opens DAR's latest exhibit- “Fighting for Freedom: Black Craftspeople and…