Abigail Adams

by Frank James First Lady Laura Bush had the media in the residence part of the White House today to show off the holiday decorations, discuss her and President Bush's plans for the holidays, their impending return to Washington......

Margaret Gray reviews "1776" at Glendale Theatre Centre....

Southern Winds Theatre kicks off its 2011-12 season this Tuesday with a presentation of “Mr. and Mrs. Adams.” Here are the season plans for the theater company, headed by David McElroy and Marylin McGinnis: Mr. and Mrs. Adams – The...

Workers at the White House hoisted something unusual in the front of the grand entrance to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Monday -- a massive pink ribbon. Running the length of the columns in front of the presidential residence, the dramatic ribbon......

And you thought the founding fathers had all the fun. Jovanka Bach’s “Mercy Warren’s Tea,� now at the Odyssey, presents Revolution politics as full-on catfight. Massachusetts, 1783: Mrs. Warren (Donna Luisa Guinan), whose satirical plays roused...

From the moment in 1800 when John and Abigail Adams moved into a still-unfinished Georgian residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the day in March when Michelle Obama began tilling a vegetable garden on the South Lawn, the White House has been many...

You can bet your Hillary Clinton buttons that one of the biggest chunks of the body politic that political pathologists will be putting under the lab microscope is the gender gap: women’s votes. “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams...

If Maryland's resident pit bull, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, has demonstrated anything in her several decades in Congress and as dean of Senate women, it's a willingness to stand up for the less powerful in society, and she was at it again this week advocating...

Right before watching a screener of The Iron Lady, I started reading a Newsweek with Meryl Streep on the cover. The three page story was a lot more interesting than the two hour movie. It was also a lot more thorough. I found out in the article that...

Two students from Our Mother of Sorrows School earned cash prizes for winning the Great Americans Day Essay Contest sponsored by CTC Foundation, an affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC).  Kate McGrath's essay won first place, and Noah...

"First Family: Abigail and John Adams" By Joseph J. Ellis Knopf, 299 pages, $27.95 Before Barack and Michelle, Eleanor and Franklin and certainly before the brand otherwise known as Brangelina, came America's first power couple: John and Abigail Adams....

The Top Five Teachers as artists Recent works by Washington County’s public, private and home-school art educators. Opening reception with music by Staff Infection will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Washington County Arts Council, 14 W. Washington...