Lincoln Memorial — 2016 — The 21st Century Matriarch

We moved to the Washington DC area in summer of 1983. I recently scanned the slides from those first few years and thought I’d post them on the 4^th of July since there are so many celebrations of our national history in the city. We made a house hunting trip in March 1983 and took time out to do a little sightseeing. The best pictures are of the capitol,

The National Gallery of Art,

And the Supreme Court building.

Thirteen months later (April 1984), my parents came for a visit. My favorite pictures from that visit are of the Lincoln Memorial

And the Einstein statue (with my mother in the picture holding a deciduous magnolia blossom that she picked up from the ground nearby).

In August 1984, we evidently made the trek into the city at night. The pictures my husband took of the monuments were quite good: The Lincoln Memorial,

The Washington Monument, and

The White House.

And then from the top of the Washington Monument: The White House,

The Jefferson Memorial, and

The Capitol.

I know that we made the effort to see the fireworks from The (Smithsonian) Mall at least twice during the subsequent years of the 1980s but I haven’t found any slides from those visits. I’ll save them for the next 4^th of July!