Lafayette Square Tour of Scandal, Assassination & Intrigue

08/13/2024

Horses galore at Assoteague!

08/13/2024

It was fun to see a full-sized replica of Magellan's ship the Trinidad at Ocean City, Maryland.

08/07/2024

Alternative Lincoln Memorials

Explore the fascinating alternate designs for the Lincoln Memorial from 1912, never built but unearthed from the National Archives. Discover John Russell Pope's imaginative proposals including a pyramid with porticoes, showcased in a series of intriguing images.

08/05/2024

Tour of Historic Congressional Cemetery, D.C.!

Congressional Cemetery, east of Capitol Hill and close to RFK Stadium, is one of the most historic and fascinating graveyards in the nation. Among those who’ve been laid to rest there are famed musician John Philip Sousa, as well as J. Edgar Hoover and his rumored lover, and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. And the bodies of Dolley Madison and John Quincy Adams, kept there in a public vault until their burials elsewhere. Presidential assassins and N**i saboteurs were executed at the nearby prison.

The graveyard, which dates from 1807, also contains the remains of civilians killed in a horrific munitions blowup, whose funeral President Lincoln attended, and those who died in the U.S. Navy’s worst accident. The place is linked to noted architects Benjamin Latrobe and William Thornton, the original designers of the Capitol Building and to America's first female journalist. For generations Congress itself maintained the cemetery, and today its upkeep is aided by local residents.

When: Sunday, Aug. 18, 5 pm.
What: A walking tour of D.C.’s most famed and politically charged graveyard
Where: Meet at Potomac Ave SOUTHEAST and 18th St., Washington, DC 20003
Length. About 2 hours.

Pre-register and pay via:
Airbnb Experience:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1504323
Or Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-of-historic-congressional-cemetery-dc-tickets-976086911227?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or PayPal, sending $21 to: [email protected]
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Or Venmo, sending $21 to:
-Moser-13
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Questions? Contact: [email protected]
Our packed itinerary will draw from:
• The mysterious vault that contained the remains of Dolley Madison and John Quincy Adams
• The local resident who composed the Marine Corps marches while hating recorded music
• "The statue of Infinity"
• The gravesite of D.C.’s “Mayor for Life”, Marion Barry, and D.C.'s bloodiest terrorist act!
• The astonishing memorial to D.C.’s most successful “lady of the evening”
• The more recently deceased, such as FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover and House Speaker Tip O’Neill
• The architect whose beguiling sister bewitched Thomas Jefferson
• The Cabinet officers who were killed in the worst peace-time Navy accident in American history--and the wild funeral that ensued!
• The Choctaw Indian chief of the Battle of New Orleans, plus an Apache chief, and a Northwest Native-American shrine!
• The Navy commander faced with the toughest decision imaginable
• Intriguing funereal architecture
• The man who taught politics the gerrymander
• A memorial to Irish immigrants slain in one of the Civil War’s worst accidents
• Figures from the largest slave escape in history
• The great photographer of the War Between the States
• The Lincoln assassination conspirator who hid among the graves, and the final resting place of another major Lincoln killer.
• Where a presidential assassin was hanged, and where N**i saboteurs were executed
• The man who designed the Washington Monument, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Treasury Building, and his critics’ vicious attacks on his skill
• The Marine Corps’ longest-serving, and possibly bravest, Commandant
• The son of the man who saved the original Declaration of Independence and Constitution
• Ghosts and goblins among the ruins
And more!

Your guide is a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter. He is the author of:
The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788?ean=9781476636931
And The Old Town Horror:
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG
And The Lost History of the Capitol:
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069892404115&eav=AfYtnhIMU8cAGS_zVQ9AxO1wmm6yirENZ1q6EZ01yB4Q_ccUV_oRESzE95ndHKo-088&paipv=0&_rdr

We’re on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Think history’s boring? Not a chance! Join us at one of the capital's most intriguing locales.

07/21/2024

What better time to experience a tour of White House intrigue??

Washington - Join me in exploring the hidden history of the White House neighborhood, Lafayette Square, and its most unusual events and personalities. As part of this tour, you’ll learn about the biggest scandal in Washington's history, which toppled an entire presidential Cabinet. Best way to con...

07/19/2024

Nice to see reps from George Mason's Gunston Hall & Mt. Vernon, at Alexandria' Virginia's 250th anniversary celebration of its Fairfax Resolves, which ignited the American Revolution.

07/16/2024

Some interesting things about assassinations and assassination attempts on Presidents:

The crazed assassin of President James Garfield entered the White House 12 times before the murder, in seeking a high-level job; he even gave his resume to the First Lady;

Lincoln's D.C. police bodyguard got drunk during the killing at a bar next to Ford's Theater; he later remained as a security guard at the White House.

An assassin apparently aiming at candidate Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 killed the mayor of Chicago instead.

Andrew Jackson beat up would-be assassin David Lawrence in 1835 with his hickory cane on the steps of the Capitol, before a congressman--frontier legend Davey Crockett--pulled the President off the gunman.

The grandson of George Washington's bodyguard, John Lutz, was the husband and theatrical agent of Laura Keene, the lead actress at Ford's Theater on the night of Lincoln's murder.

Before the Civil War, a brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth saved the life of the Lincolns' eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln.

Robert Todd Lincoln was not far away from the sites of the Lincoln, Garfield, and William McKinley assassinations. He later declined an invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt, remarking, 'Three assassinations is enough for any man.'

After being shot in 1901, President McKinley urged the crowd not to lynch the assassin.

After Garfield was shot in 1881, black workmen sympathetic to the President's support of civil rights nearly lynched the assassin. After being placed in custody, a prison guard and a farmer tried to kill the assassin.

In 1950 two gunmen men tried to murder President Harry Truman at the Blair-Lee House in Lafayette Square, with Truman watching the onrushing attack from an open window.

Earlier in Lincoln's presidency, his personal guard, Ward Hill Lamon, killed a man on the White House grounds who may have been seeking to murder the President.

In a failed raid on the Confederate capital of Richmond, a Union Army detachment may have planned to kill rebel President Jefferson Davis.

FDR was a target of a failed N**i assassination plot against him, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin at a 1943 WW2 conference in Tehran, Iran; the plot leader was to be the commando who had rescued Mussolini from house arrest in a daring glider raid.

Booth conspirator Mary Surratt was the only American woman executed in the 19th century.

President Ronald Reagan, after his 1981 wounding by John Hinckley, was fortunate to be treated at George Washington University Hospital, which due to a co***ne and gang epidemic was a world leader in the treatment of gunshot wounds.

Hinckley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, a co-star of the movie Taxi Driver, about a deranged man fixated on a young pr******te and on killing a presidential candidate.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who unsuccessfully tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975, had been an acolyte of mass murderer Charles Manson.

John Wilkes Booth and his actor-brother played the roles of assassins Brutus and Cassius, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Via:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette/dp/1476674868

https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSquareTourOfScandalAssassinationIntrigue

07/02/2024

Our tour made Travelers' Choice!

https://www.meetup.com/Lafayette-Sq-Tours-of-Scandal-Assassination-Spies-Meetup/

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

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06/28/2024

Tuesday, July 2
Tour DC's Secrets--White House's Lafayette Square to the Lincoln Memorial!

Secret History Tour--White House's Lafayette Square to the Lincoln Memorial!!

Take a fun trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites!

Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.

Prepay and Preregister--
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-dcs-secrets-white-houses-lafayette-square-to-the-lincoln-memorial-tickets-936429735547?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or:
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/1206796
Or:
Send $22 to [email protected] via PayPal
Or:
Send $22 to -Moser-13 via Venmo

What: We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:

• The hidden architecture of the White House
• Hidden history of the stunning Lincoln Memorial
• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so

• The disputes behind the Vietnam War Memorial
• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution
• The compromises behind the impressive Korean War memorial
• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War

• Espionage on the National Mall
• Treasury, State Department, and Defense Department spies
• The biggest s*x scandal in American history
• White House ghost tales
• The tragic end of a noted female artist
• The greatest slave escape in American history
• The secret symbols within the Square

• The hero of two continents
• The hero of three nations
• Horse races and graveyards in the Square of old
• When an invading army arrived at the Executive Mansion
• Before it became Constitution Avenue

• The femme fatale who nearly broke up "Camelot"
• Where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!
• Why the Washington Monument took a century to build

• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• The First Lady who saved President's Park
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
And more!!

Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr

And his latest, a thriller set in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776

We’re on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Nearest metro stations: Farragut North and West

Questions? Ask here, or at: [email protected]

Think history’s boring? Think again!!

Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.

06/27/2024

Typically ridiculously historically rich street in Georgetown, 33 & O. In a half block have home of WW2's most effective spy Betty Pack, RFK I's house, home of chief creator of National Portrait Gallery & National Gallery of Art David Finley, the chief prosecutor in the Charles Lindbergh child kidnapping case, & top Cold War nuclear strategist Paul Nitze....

06/24/2024

We had a two-hour chat with the curator of the small yet fascinating President James Monroe museum in Colonial Beach, Virginia.

https://monroefoundation.org/

06/22/2024

We gave a tour of the National Gallery of Art, half art, half the surprising history of the locale.

06/21/2024

We spoke on Georgetown's hidden history at the City Tavern, one of the lodgings where Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Banneker, L'Enfant & others planned & managed the construction of D.C.

06/18/2024

Our recent private tour: Lafayette Square to Korean War memorial, including guests from Holland & Sweden.

06/14/2024

Tour of Air-Cooled National Gallery Art and Historic Neighborhood, DC, Friday, June 21!

Join us on the summer solstice, likely to be a warm day, for a tour of the history and artistic highlights of the famed, air-conditioned National Gallery of Art!

MEET at the 4th St. entrance (near the Louvre-like glass triangle), between Madison Drive and Pennsylvania Ave.
Time: 12:30 pm.
About 2 hours in length.

We'll give an overview of the historic neighborhood on which the NGA is located, and then stroll the galleries to see some of its world-famous objets d'art.

The tour will draw on:
o Works of Leonardo da Vinci
o The political controversy that created the NGA.
o The movie "Glory"'s sculpture
o The famed Impressionist room
o On the site where a President was assassinated
o Salvador Dali's surprising take on Leonardo
o The old entertainment district
o Mercurial Hermes
o Locale of the first D.C. riot, of 1835!
o Marc Chagall and the road to modern art
o Rembrandt
o The shape-shifting museum across Constitution avenue
o Landscapes of Americana
o Helen Keller and the women's march, of 1913
o I.M. Pei's next-door gallery
o Medieval marvels
And more!

Preregister and Prepay via--
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-of-air-cooled-national-gallery-art-and-historic-neighborhood-dc-tickets-925986228737?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or Airbnb Experiences:
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/1206796
Or send $22 to PayPal via savvyveteraan .com
Or, $22 to Venmo via -Moser-13

Your host is a former "Tonight Show" writer and White House speechwriter.
A specialist in the history, art, and architecture of the capital region, he is the author of The Lost Capitol:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909
And a new crime novel set in Alexandria Virginia:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Old-Town-Horror-Audiobook/B0CYMZBHBP
And The White House's Unruly Neighborhood:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788
And (hopefully) forthcoming books on Georgetown.
We're the highest-rated travel event on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

MEET at the 4th St. entrance (near the Louvre-like glass triangle), between Madison Drive and Pennsylvania Ave.

Take a break from the start of summer swelter with a look at one of the world's great art collections, and its fascinating history!!

06/11/2024

Washington DC Region Discovery Walks:

https://www.meetup.com/washarea-discovery-hikes/

When you’ve already explained everything in the email and they reply, “Let’s get on a call and discuss this.”

Mondays can be a real bear. See below. Just remember to take breaks for snacks and naps, and try to avoid any “reply all” mishaps. Save that for Tuesday.

Image: Bear with “resting bear face” at Katmai National Park & Preserve.

06/10/2024

The Bastille Day Week Tour of Famous French-Americans, Lafayette Square, White House Neighborhood DC, July 15!

Celebrate the culture of France and its long-term alliance with, and influence on, America, with a White House area tour of famed French-Americans!

Where: Lafayette Square, D.C.
MEET at the Battle of New Orleans/Andrew Jackson statue in middle of the Square.
Length: About 2 hours
Email: [email protected]

Your guide, an ex-Tonight Show writer and former Presidential speechwriter, is the author of a history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7
And a new book steeped in the history of Alexandria, Virginia!:
THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America’s Most Historic Locale - Kindle edition by Moser, Edward P.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
And a political satire:
https://www.amazon.com/Foundering-Fathers-Jefferson-Franklin-Abigail-ebook/dp/B00FEZG8UW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1407805897&sr=8-1
And a presidential history:
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-Presidents-Washington-Theodore-Roosevelt-ebook/dp/B01K0NT0CK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Pre-register and pre-pay via:
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bastille-day-tour-of-famous-french-americans-lafayette-square-dc-tickets-857193026417?aff=oddtdtcreator
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1206796
Or send $22.50 to [email protected] via PayPal:
https://www.paypal.com/us/home

Learn about the great deal of French and French-American influence right in America’s founding park, Lafayette Square!:

• The Frenchman who joined George Washington’s army as a teenager, as a major general!
• The French pirate who helped the Americans win a famous victory.
• The French-American officer who won a famous victory over pirates.
• The remarkable White House area constructions during the two world wars to save France.
• Lafayette's astonishing 1824 tour--by steamboat, skiff, and horse--of every state in the U.S.
• The surprising origin of France's Declaration of the Rights of Man
• How a First Lady of French descent saved Lafayette Square.
• The American President who saved the Marquis of Lafayette’s life!
• The First Lady who saved Lafayette’s life a second time!
• The renowned African-American sculpture by a French-American sculptor.
• How a brilliant spy helped a general of French descent win a major Civil War battle.
• The hero of the French, American, and (stillborn) English Revolutions
• The American President with ancestors from an oppressed French religious group.
• The teacher of French ancestry who inspired the Lewis and Clark expedition.
• The French explorer critical to the success of that expedition.
• The French commander who was key to winning the American Revolution’s climactic battle.
• The French-born architects who designed the Capitol Building, and the Square's grandest mansion and church.
• The Bonaparte who was refused by D.C.'s most eligible woman.
• The American who secretly built the White House from a French design.
• The French philosopher who invented the American form of government.
• The French financial wizard who cut the nation’s debt while funding the largest real estate deal in history.
• The African-American who brought French cuisine to America.
• The spy whose husband brought Franco-American cuisine to its peak.
• The French aristocrat who acted as a secret American agent for the largest real estate deal in history.
• The French-born civil engineer who founded, and was fired by, “Washington”.
• How the Louvre influenced the Square
• The congressman of French descent who saved the American President from a charge of manslaughter!
• The French steward who saved a President from drowning!!
• And more!!

We’re TripAdvisor’s highest-rated tour in the capital city:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Vive la France! In Lafayette Square D.C.! On the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's 1824 reunion tour of the U.S.!

MEET at the Battle of New Orleans/Andrew Jackson statue in middle of the Square.

06/06/2024

Not even a tornado and torrential rain could stop our tour of Washington DC!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSquareTourOfScandalAssassinationIntrigue

https://www.meetup.com/washarea-discovery-hikes/

06/03/2024

A couple of our Fort Washington, Maryland tour pix.

05/30/2024

Veterans Day History Tour of the White House & National Mall, Nov. 11, 2024!

05/29/2024

Father's Day Special--Bad Boys of the Capitol Building & Congress!

The U.S. Capitol Building is famed for its stunning architecture and landscaping. Yet its interior and grounds have also held court to 222 years of misbehavior & mayhem--by powerful men (and some unscrupulous women)! Making for a man's man tour: of brawls, hangings, canings, bombings, the city & Capitol riots across two centuries, unruly protests, and assorted and sordid acts of revenge! And some noble feats as well.

When: Sunday, June 16, 4:30 pm
What: A walking tour of the Capitol’s ground that covers two centuries of misdeeds, murders, ghosts, betrayals, and some accomplishments too.
Where: MEET at the steps of the Supreme Court building, First Street NE, Washington DC, DC 20003.

Price: Starts at $23.
Pre-register and Pre-pay via—
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fathers-day-bad-asses-of-the-capitol-building-congress-wild-history-tickets-914786570257?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or
Airbnb Experiences:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1504323
Or PayPal, sending $23 to:
[email protected]
Or Venmo, sending $23 to:
-Moser-13
Or AllEventsIn:
https://allevents.in/washington/fathers-day-special-bad-asses-of-the-capitol-building-and-congress/80004114075648?ref=smdl

Length. About 2 hours.

Experience the fear, the thrill, the shock. Of episodes drawn from this litany of 'toxic masculinity' ;) :

• The nearly fatal beating of a Senator by a Congressman
• The first assassination attempt on a President
• Arbors of heartbreak--the Capitol’s commemorative trees
• The Capitol’s first hanging
• Bootlegged spirits by the legislators of Prohibition
• The Capitol's most famous hanging
• Where Washington & Jefferson fired L'Enfant
• The bloody steps of a Capitol shooting
• The city & Capitol turmoil of 1835, 1857, 1919, 1968, 1991, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024...
• The Capitol curse of its slain architect
• The burning down of the Capitol Building
• The legislators’ ladies of the evening
• Where drunken louts terrified America's most esteemed lady
• The Army veterans vs. Eisenhower & MacArthur
• The restless spirit of a hanged war criminal
• The riot of the slave traders
• A doomed, wounded President
• The unusual demise of convicted spies
• Night-time bombings of the Senate
• The duel to the death—with rifles!--between two Congressmen
• The bombing of the Senate chamber, and the bomber’s awful demise
And more!

Your guide is a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter, historian and professional tour guide, and author of 13 books, such as:
The Lost Capitol:
The Lost History of the Capitol: The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building: Moser, Edward P.: 9781493055906: Amazon.com: Books
The Old Town Horror:
THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America’s Most Historic Locale - Kindle edition by Moser, Edward P.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood:
The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square by Edward P. Moser | eBook | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
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We’re on TripAdvisor!:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Think history’s boring? Think again!!

Get in touch with you Neanderthal side with this fun event.

05/23/2024

200th Anniversary Tour, Lafayette's Famed Visit to Alexandria, Virginia, (and D.C.) Oct. 14!

On the week of the Marquis de Lafayette's 200th anniversary visit to Alexandria, take a walk through Alexandria’s cultural & historic core to examine the visit, and epochal life, of the "hero of two worlds." Old Town Alexandria drips with an astonishing dense array of famous persons and noted events, related to Lafayette's life and times. Especially those involving the American Revolution and George Revolution (in George Washington's hometown). Accompanied by a historian/author, immerse yourself in this special tour, and in one of America’s most fascinating towns.

Meet outside the Benjamin Delaney House, 223 South Saint Asaph Street (corner of Duke Street) , Alexandria, VA 22314 St., Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Fee: Prices start at $22.
About 2 hours in length.
Pre-register and Pre-pay--
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/404081
Or:
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/200th-anniversary-tour-lafayettes-famed-visit-to-alexandria-virginia-tickets-911463059547
Or:
PayPal, sending $22 to [email protected]
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Or: Venmo, sending $22 to:
-Moser-13

Our packed itinerary will select from:
• Lafayette's triumphant reunion tour to America
• His stay in Alexandria, Oct. 16, 1824.
• George Washington, Old Town surveyor
• The noted architects behind the city’s stunning architecture
• The Alexandria houses and taverns where Lafayette stayed and spoke
• Hometown of famous Founding Fathers
• The Marquis, ahead of his time on involuntary servitude
• George Washington’s secret townhouse
• Lafayette at the White House, Congress, and Lafayette Square
• The site of the first six Presidential inaugural balls
• The nation’s narrowest houses
• Where the Marquis passed by on the way to the battle of Yorktown
• Where the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were hatched
• What did the Founding Fathers do for fun? Violent horse races & crazed drinking bouts from back in the day.
• A World War Two munitions factory, and spy nest
• How GW started a world war
• Old Town when new, in 1824
• The horrific attack on a Revolutionary War hero
• "Give me liberty or give me death!"
• The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier--of the American Revolution
• The real “Father” of his country
• Lafayette's astonishing array of friendships with many famous Americans
And more!

Your guide is a former “Tonight Show” writer, an ex-Presidential speechwriter, & author of a new novel set in Alexandria that draws on its rich history:
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG
His book on D.C.’s history, The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal & Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788
And a book on the wild history of the Capitol Building:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909

Plenty of excellent restaurants in the area for afterwards.

Your host's tours are rated more highly than the Eiffel Tower or the Great Wall of China!:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Think history’s dull? Think again!

05/22/2024

Let us be your tour guide to the world! And especially to the capital city region:

https://www.meetup.com/Lafayette-Sq-Tours-of-Scandal-Assassination-Spies-Meetup/

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

05/21/2024

S'mores Lisbon.

05/20/2024

Our tour of the Lincoln Assassination & the Civil War, Lafayette Square to Ford's Theater, including a look at the presidential seal, & August Gaudens's Grief statue, for the son of the Union's ambassador to Britain, Henry Adams. Our tours:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/ed-moser-12850571701?aff=ebeseadeeplink

05/20/2024

We gave a private small group birthday tour of scandal & spies in Georgetown.

Lafayette Sq. Tours of Scandal, Assassination & Spies Meetup https://www.meetup.com/lafayette-sq-tours-of-scandal-assassination-spies-meetup on Meetup