Lafayette Square’s ‘Nature Boy,’ near the White House but apart from civilization
Usually when someone wanders to Lafayette Square in downtown Washington it’s to stage a protest, to rally for a cause or to take a photograph with the White House in the background. However, the park offers another attraction, a barefoot, white-bearded, dreadlocked man who calls himself “Nature Boy.”
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Oct. 17, 2011
Elijah Alfred "Nature Boy" Alexander Jr., 66, regularly spends his days in Lafayette Square, next to the White House.
Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post
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