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“I may be a founding father, but you can call me Daddy.”
The folks at Mount Vernon are hoping the new George will help Americans see him as he was before he was famous, before Gilbert Stuart painted him, back when he was an "adventurous, athletic, risk-taking, courageous kind of action hero," says Jim Rees, the estate's executive director. Washington was extremely tall for his time (just over 6 feet 2), had a regal bearing and "larger than average hands and feet."Yowza—you know what that means! Sounds to me like he had more than just a mouth full of wood.
(Actually, in all seriousness, I found the process Schwartz used to backwards age Washington really fascinating, because I’m a nerd about that stuff, which was my intent in recommending the article, but I kind of need some silliness today.)
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