The Mount Vernon High School Choir lifted me up and took me to a higher place on Saturday with a Christmas performance to remember. I'm not big on most holidays and Christmas music drives me up a wall, but there was a little magic in the air at George Washington's estate yesterday.
Perhaps it was the combination of the music and the setting, and the fact that the young singers were dressed in 18th Century garb --and that they were giving it everything they had.
I spend a lot of time at Mount Vernon and I've observed its beauty on all kinds of different days and seasons, but I don't know that I've ever seen it as beautiful as it was decked out for the arrival of Santa Claus.
If you haven't paid your respects to our first president lately, you should visit soon. The Christmas spirit is there waiting for you.
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