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Lindsay Dillon

Lindsay Dillon is studying History and Strategic Intelligence/International Relations at Liberty University. She has always loved history since she was little, which started when her parents gave her a really creepy children’s book on Egyptian mummification.  Since then, her love for history has grown.  She has assisted in archaeological digs at Montpelier and several other places in southern Virginia and has traveled around the globe to visit fantastic history sites. She has an extensive collection of arrowheads, pottery pieces from Israel, and wood chips from a few colonial taverns, which she shows to all her friends (however her friends definitely do not find the wood chips as fascinating as she does).

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From Statistics to Stories: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program

From Statistics to Stories: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program

08/09/2017 in DC by Lindsay Dillon

For the past 18 years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has hosted the First Person program each summer. These programs are open to the public, and allow musuem visitors to listen to personal stories of Holocaust survivors, and to engage with them.

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"If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government": May Day Protests of 1971

"If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government": May Day Protests of 1971

07/18/2017 in DC by Lindsay Dillon

Those who travelled into the District in the early part of May could enjoy a rock concert, good food, and plenty of protesting. In May 1971, the culmination of months of anti-Vietnam protesting took hold of D.C., when thousands of young Americans attempted to block traffic, execute sit-ins, and make their voices heard.

 

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A Royal Stroll through J.C. Penney

A Royal Stroll through J.C. Penney

07/07/2017 in DC by Lindsay Dillon

In November 1985, the last thing Washingtonians expected to see was the Princess of Wales strolling through the Springfield Mall...sadly she didn't stop for a soft pretzel along the way.

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The Party Doesn't Stop...Until a Revolution Happens

The Party Doesn't Stop...Until a Revolution Happens

06/05/2017 in DC by Lindsay Dillon

When a person walks past the abandoned embassy of Iran, the first thought that comes to mind probably isn’t that this is a place where politicians routinely danced on couches. But, fifty years ago, 3005 Massachusetts Avenue was infamous among the social elite of Washington D.C. as the go-to party place for fancy champagne, expensive caviar, and lots of drugs. As Barbara Walters remembered, “it was the number one embassy when it came to extravagance.” Drivers dropped off the political elite and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, and Redskins coach George Allen. Guests in grand designer gowns and fashions let loose as, in the words of one local woman, “there were limousines double parked all over the place” outside.

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