In many years of travel I have made it to the homes of several of the presidents: both Johnsons, Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge among them. This week I visited George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, for the first time. To my delight, I arrived at the guest center to the sound of a fife and drum corps playing "Yankee Doodle." I missed noticing that another guest appeared in the photo next to the musicians, but I did notice one more important thing that was wrong.
