Mystery History Tour, Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood DC!, Sept. 15!

Secret History Tour of Lafayette Square & the White House Neighborhood, Monday, Sept. 15!!

Let's take a fun trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites!
Where: Meet outside the Octagon House, 1799 New York Ave NW, DC

Pre-Register and Prepay via—
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-history-tour-lafayette-square-white-house-neighborhood-dc-tickets-1683997063549?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or PayPal, sending $22 to paypal.me/EMoser460
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What: Perhaps because of its proximity to great power and wealth, the White House, Treasury Building, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of astonishing events. We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:

• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so
• The hidden architecture of the White House
• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution
• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War
• Treasury, State Department, and Defense Department spies
• The biggest sex 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
• The femme fatale who nearly broke up "Camelot"
• Where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!
• 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 Georgetown--
https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel-ebook/dp/B0F4945MR5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

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
Restaurants nearby for afterwards at the Old Ebbitt Grill and the Hamilton

Questions? Ask here, or at: [191.EP.JM.56@proton.me](mailto:191.EP.JM.56@proton.me)

Think history’s boring? Think again!!