March 1st and balmy weather, sunny and 50s. Son Noah showed us around his new-to-us neighborhood Petworth, including the hood’s very own historic site: The Lincoln Cottage where the president used to get away from the White House.
It’s a pretty stucco building on the grounds of a still functioning veteran soldiers home with several attractive buildings scattered on grounds atop a hill. Lincoln reportedly developed key ideas like the emancipation proclamation at the cottage. In the visitors center I learned about the President and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln’s grief as they lost 3 of their 4 sons way too soon. (ages 3, 11, 18)
Dinner was very good at new American restaurant Nina May (Shaw neighborhood) and the shopping was good (ceramics, paper and home goods) at nearby Salt and Sundry in Logan Circle.
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