Annual Pre-Superbowl Walking Tour--Historic Alexandria, Virginia!

Annual Pre-Superbowl Walking Tour--Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Feb. 9, Sunday, 11:30 am!

Every Superbowl Sunday, we take a brisk walk through a historic locale, to burn off some of the calories to be consumed later that day at "Stupor Bowl" parties. This time, we'll hoof through Old Town Alexandria’s cultural & historic core. It drips with an astonishing dense array of famous persons and historical events. Accompanied by an historian, immerse yourself in one of America’s most fascinating towns.

Meet at Windmill Hill Park, 501 S. Union St., Alexandria, Virginia

Packed itinerary will select from:

• George Washington, teenaged town surveyor

• The noted architects behind the city’s stunning architecture

• Grisly murders and ghosts in the spooky tunnel

• Civil War street fights and fires

• Hometown of famous Founding Fathers

• Locale of the biggest slave escape in U.S. history

• The site of the first six Presidential inaugural balls

• Locale of a famous Confederate, and Union Army, sculpture

• The nation’s narrowest houses

• George Washington’s secret townhouse

• Rebel graves and Underground rails

• Where the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were hatched

• The first civil rights sit-down strike

• Violent horse races, deadly duels & crazed drinking bouts from back in the day.

• The disappearing factory and the moveable mansion

• A World War Two munitions factory, and spy nest

• The grisly ghost of the old cotton mill

• How GW started a world war

• U.S. Navy heroes and mishaps

• The horrific attack on a Revolutionary War hero

• George Washington’s secret townhouse• The real “Father” of his country

And more!

Your guide is a former “Tonight Show” writer, an ex-Presidential speechwriter, & author of the new book on D.C.’s history, The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal & Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788

And a book on the wild history of the Capitol Building:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909

And a crime novel set in Old Town:

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Town-Horror-Americas-Historic/dp/B0CYN3HRY6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Your host's tours are rated more highly than the Eiffel Tower or the Great Wall of China!:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Think history’s dull? Think again!

Meet at: at Windmill Hill Park, 501 S. Union St., Alexandria, Virginia, on the waterfront side of the Wilkes St. tunnel.

Host or Publisher Ed Moser