While historians agree that the story is a myth ... The 250-year-old cherry trees at Mount Vernon are living testaments to the enduring legacy of George Washington. They remind us of his ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

What did George Washington ... conceivably date back to Washington’s childhood — when (spurious) legend holds that he disobediently chopped down the cherry tree and admitted the deed.

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 ...

And the woman responsible as much as anybody for bringing Scidmore's story back to the fore is Diana Parsell, A&S '07 (MA), author of Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's ...

a nod to the infamous cherry tree apocryphal where a young George Washington supposedly said, “I cannot tell a lie” after chopping down a cherry tree. Just in case you forget where you are ...

Washington, D.C., is set to lose over 100 of its iconic cherry trees next year ... The Washington Nationals brought Teddy (Roosevelt) and George (Washington), two of its Presidents Race mascots ...