National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Presidents Day With Lineup of Events

Bring your family and celebrate American presidents with games, music and a lineup of fun this weekend:

Noon & 1 p.m. Linton Hall Fife and Drum Corps performance

12:30-2:30 p.m. Appearances by Washington Nationals mascots

12:40 p.m. Lansdowne portrait spotlight

1:30 & 2:30 p.m. Virginia reel workshop

2 p.m. Meet Flora Fraser, author of The Washingtons: George and Martha: Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love

Ongoing Activities:

• Go on a scavenger hunt led by the Portrait Gallery's Teen Museum Council
• Write love notes like George and Martha Washington in a calligraphy workshop
• Create and break codes used during the Revolutionary War
• Dress and pose like George Washington in a Lansdowne-inspired portrait
• Help make a large-scale recreation of the Lansdowne portrait
• Create a tricorn hat
• Make a top hat with staff members from President Lincoln's Cottage

A full list of Saturday's activities can also be found here.

This program is sponsored in part by the Reinsch Family Education Endowment.

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