I am related to a man who once knew a man who knew another man who knew George Washington ... was also home to a grand old chestnut tree planted by Washington himself. Using wood taken from ...

they knew they were on farmland that had once belonged to George Washington's family. Some of them sent cherry pits home in the mail, in reference to the legendary, if apocryphal, felled tree ...

Nearly everybody is familiar with the legend of the young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and then confessing to his father because he "cannot tell a lie." A ...