A president who lived in Cuba?

President Obama's recent trip to Cuba was historic in that he was the first US president to visit since the embargo (in fact, the first since Calvin Coolidge over eighty years ago).  However,when John and I visited Cuba last month, I had another US president on my mind - one who actually briefly resided there.  Click the photo of the palace where he lived to visit that president's page and find out why:

 

A Vermonter wins New Hampshire

Yesterday's Democratic primary in New Hampshire was won by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  The last time a Vermonter was in the White House was almost a hundred years ago.  And that president, because of an unusual circumstance, took the presidential oath of office twice (both times in very private settings).  And of course, I have visited both sites :-)  Click the photo below to visit the page and find out the story of why...

New Hampshire

In celebration of today's New Hampshire primary, I post the page of our only president to hail from the Granite State.  Click the photo below to visit my page for our fourteenth president:

Hillary Clinton Wins Iowa Caucus

In celebration of the official announcement yesterday of Hillary Clinton's (albeit slim) victory in the Iowa Caucus, I am posting my Bill Clinton page.  Click the photo below to discover the significance of this window where Hillary and I are posing:

Iowa Caucus Day 2016

I haven't updated this blog in a while, but this crazy presidential election season has put me in the mood again.  In celebration of today's Iowa caucuses, I have added new photos to the page of the only president who was born in Iowa.  Click the photo below to visit that page and find out who he was...

Presidential Libraries

I just completed a swing through Arkansas and Texas with my sister and her family (like me, my nephew is also a presidential history buff).  During this trip I visited three presidential libraries that I had not been to before - and I have now visited all thirteen.  Click the photo below to see my photos from the presidential libraries through the years...

My First Presidential Site Selfie

After 40+ years of visiting presidential sites with friends and family, I visited this site alone, and thus, took my first presidential site selfie.  Click the selfie below to find out which president lived here (and to discover the presidential first that this building represents):

 

 

(and it's 2015, why does spell-check want to change selfie to sulfide?!)