Tomorrow, we're heading back to Mount Vernon again to celebrate George Washington's actual birthday, February 22.
That's his birthday according to the Gregorian calendar we use today. But, oddly enough, records from his birth in 1732 list it as February 11th.
So what changed?
In colonial times, Britain and its colonies still followed the Julian…
I walk down four stone steps to the dingy basement. The bricks are old and worn, the whitewash on the walls faded, and it smells like dirt.
“You just walked down the same steps as Nicholas Cage,” the tour guide announces when I reach the bottom.
My siblings and I look at each other with…