When February arrives with cherry blossoms and celebrations for President George Washington’s birthday, we remember the ...

George Washington’s fondness for cherries is often woven into the fabric of American folklore, epitomized by the apocryphal tale of him chopping down a cherry tree and confessing to his father ...

The George Washington Foundation ... could not lie to his father about chopping down a cherry tree. But Paul Nasca, the foundation's staff archaeologist, said it was unlikely that any of the ...

What did George Washington ... conceivably date back to Washington’s childhood — when (spurious) legend holds that he disobediently chopped down the cherry tree and admitted the deed.