Looking back at the month that has just passed, we have had occasion to commemorate the birthday of two of the greatest American leaders in the history of our country. In the classrooms of our schools, in our newspapers and magazines, and in the thoughts of the American people, the lives of George Washington and […]

When George Washington was born at the seldom visited and almost unknown Wakefield Farm in Virginia, the Indians had scarcely left the woods near his home.  As a youth, although bred in an environment of luxury and ease and refinement, he often chose the rugged life of hunters and Indians, climbing mountains, fording streams and […]