Tag: Washington D.C.
Who has the better Cherry Blossom Festival—Washington D.C. or Macon?
The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., may draw more than a million visitors, but the city’s 3,750 cherry trees pale in comparison to Macon’s 350,000. Here’s how the Southern celebration stacks up to its counterpart in the nation’s capital.
April Getaway Guide: Madison’s antebellum houses, D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Festival, and more
Just 60 miles east of Atlanta, Madison is a convenient place for city folk to get their antebellum white columns fix. An 1845 guide to Georgia called it “the most cultured and aristocratic town on the stagecoach route from Charleston to New Orleans.”