George Washington’s fondness for cherries is often woven into the fabric of American folklore, epitomized by the apocryphal tale of him chopping down a cherry tree and confessing to his father ...

She is among the millions of people each year who trek to the area around the Thomas Jefferson Memorial between late March and the beginning of April to marvel at the bursting cherry trees lining ...

The story of a six-year-old George Washington chopping down a cherry tree may be a myth, but archeologists excavating Mount Vernon, the home of the United States' first president, made the very ...