- Jacqueline Trescott
- Reporter
Jacqueline Trescott has been a reporter at The Washington Post since 1976. She has been assigned to the Style Section for all of her Post career. Since the early 1990s Trescott has covered the news--from fund-raising to administrative changes--of the region’s performing arts centers, theaters and museums. Trescott, along with staff writer James V. Grimaldi, was cited by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association for their reports on asbestos at the National Air and Space Museum.
Jim Rees, president of Mount Vernon, retiring
Rees, an executive at Mount Vernon for the last 29 years, is leaving in June because of health reasons.
Smithsonian requests money for the old and new
In the fiscal 2013 federal budget request, the Smithsonian Institution is requesting funds for the old and the new.
Pacino, Asbery, Watts received White House honors
President Obama awarded actor Al Pacino, poet John Asbery and pianist Andre Watts the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal.
OKeeffe and Stieglitz, not only iconic artists, but sizzling letter writers
Over 30 years Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz wrote about 5,000 letters to each other. Here’s what they said.
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- African American history museum delves into Jefferson and his slaves
- Stolen Pissarro returned to France
- Not an Oscar but Clint Eastwood to receive Smithsonian Bicentennial Medal
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