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January 19, 2005 By: Betty Ramsey, LEOASC Passport Destination: Presidential Birthplaces Packing Round 1. Bill Clinton was born in a small Arkansas town with this uplifting name. HOPE 2. Virginia is the birth state of the most presidents followed by OHIO. 3 He is the only U.S. president born in Kentucky. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 4. Thomas Jefferson built this estate near his birthplace in Shadwell, Virginia. MONTICELLO 5. This 31st president of the U.S. was the first to be born west of the Mississippi River. HERBERT HOOVER 6. The current president, George W. Bush, was born in this city in Connecticut. NEW HAVEN Picture: large red mansion Departure Round 1. The Brighten Beach area of New York City, Teddy Roosevelt's hometown, is famous for this soup. BORSCHT 2. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were in his hometown on September 25 for the Plains PEANUT Festival. 3. This Oscar-winning actor stars in the 2004 film "The Assassination of Richard Nixon": SEAN PENN . 4 Benjamin Harrison`s birthplace of Northbend, Ohio, is on the banks of the OHIO River. 5. The NHL`s Carolina HURRICANES are based in Andrew Johnson`s hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. Picture: yellow three story oblong house with many chimneys On Tour 1. Gerald Ford`s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, was once the center of the POPULIST Political Movement. 2 George Herbert Walker Bush`s birth town of Milton is located eight miles south of BOSTON. 3. The name of John Adam's Massachusetts birth city was changed from Braintree to QUINCY. 4. Which fact is true of the three-room cottage in which Ulysses S. Grant was born? ONCE TOURED U.S. BY RAIL 5. Now a museum, GADSBY'S Tavern is associated with three presidents born in Virginia. 6. Millard Fillmore's birthplace in Cayuga Country is close to this New York vacation area. FINGER LAKES 7. A miniature of the WHITE HOUSE is a new exhibit at the Nixon Birthplace and Library in Yorba Linda. Picture: two story dark house with light trim and portch 8. Andrew Jackson, born in Waxhaw, South Carolina, in 1767, was the first president to do this. RIDE ON A TRAIN 9. George Washington was born on a TOBACCO farm. 10. This president was born in a small apartment above a bakery in Tampico, Illinois. RONALD REGAN 11. Rutherford B. Hayes hometown of Delaware, Ohio, received a National PRESERVE AMERICA Award. 12. All of these facts are true of Lyndon Baines Johnson except SERVED IN THE AIR FORCE. Bonus Question One These events are held at Dwight D. Eisenhower's birthplace in Denison, Texas, except THANKSGIVING FEAST. Bonus Question Two Where on the map of Texas is Denison found? Area 2 Picture: small white house Slide Show 1. The birthplace of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, is named SPRINGWOOD. 2. You can visit the birthplace of President William Howard Taft in this Ohio city. CINCINNATI 3. This birthplace of John F. Kennedy in BROOKLINE is just seven miles from Boston`s Logan Airport. 4. You can visit this humble birthplace of Harry S. Truman in Lamar, MISSOURI. Clues for next destination: Quito Inca culture Bananas Pacific Ocean |