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Trivia About White House Easter Traditions Through the Years

by Karen Hatter | April 12, 2009 at 06:06 am

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The author provides a list of little known facts about the White House tradition of the Easter egg roll, which was first hosted in 1878 by First Lady Lucy Hayes, wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

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Easter is a perfect holiday. It brings together many of my favorite things: candy, exercise (of the lighter variety), flowers, cute animals and politics. Yes, politics! The White House Easter egg roll is one of the most colorful, funny and young events at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And this year the Obamas are also applying a little "change" to the event by putting the tickets online for the first time. As expected, these tickets sold out in less time than it takes to lay an egg, chase it down the lawn, hide it, find it, peck at it... enough with the eggaphors (metaphors, for those who didn't get the pun).

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Jordan Yerman

at 07:19 on April 12th, 2009

Whenever I think of Easter, I think of the original Cadbury Egg commercial, with the clucking rabbit. I'm just a product of mass media, I guess.

This is a bit of a sea change for the White House, which I think ties in with Michelle Obama's lawn-gardening project. (I'm still a bit miffed that she didn't call me to plant some Thai dragon chilis, but that's the way it goes sometimes)