BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area

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1. LAFAY_200918_05.JPG: Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW! ... It seems that I can hear God say to America. "You are too arrogant! If you do not change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power..." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hydroxycholoquine works Open schools No vaccine No masks
2. LAFAY_200918_15.JPG: Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW! ... It seems that I can hear God say to America. "You are too arrogant! If you do not change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power..." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hydroxycholoquine works Open schools No vaccine No masks US Troops are the Cause of War and the Root of all Evils! Withdraw US Troops from South Corea [sic] immediately! PDP Peace Expedition to USA Love your neighbor means -- End poverty & Economic Inequality Resist Racism - End Racial Violence Abolish War - Nuclear Weapons - Killer Drones _ ALL Guns Honor the Earth - End the Climate Crisis Welcome the Immigrant - Don't Detain Tear Gas and Deport Them Close Guantanamo
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Wikipedia Description: Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (30,000 m²) public park located within President's Park, Washington, D.C. directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east, and Pennsylvania Avenue. The square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970.

History

Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion, this square was originally called "President's Park", which is now the name of the larger National Park Service unit. The park was separated from the White House grounds in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through. In 1824, the park was officially renamed in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations. Andrew Jackson Downing landscaped Lafayette Square in 1851 in the picturesque style.

Today's plan, with its five large statues, dates from the 1930s. In the center stands Clark Mills' equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, erected in 1853. In the four corners are statues of foreign Revolutionary War heroes: Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette and Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau of France, Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko of Poland, and Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben of Prussia.

Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in US history, at Lafayette Square.
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11 and then the BLM protests started followed by the child president trying to steal the election in November. Trump's handling of the pandemic has been a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and increasing the deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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