Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Institution turns 150 years old in August, and we're celebrating. Six hundred thousand people are expected to attend the weekend-long Birthday Party on the Mall...
...filled with back-to-back meetings, broken up only by the hot and humid walks between my office at L'Enfant Plaza and the National Mall and with a half-hour lunch, usually spent writing memos to participants in the Birthday Party...
Unfortunately, we were sitting on the wrong side of the speakers, so we couldn't hear a thing. We watched the fireworks through the trees that line the Mall, kneeling on the hard concrete and straining to see over the heads of the people in front of us. The actual fireworks were nothing special, and they certainly didn't merit the title of Best in the Nation. What we heard of the concert was less than terrific. To top it all off, since we were sitting directly in front of the cannons, we only heard the firing noises from...
...this point, some may wonder why anyone goes to the Mall on more than one Fourth of July. Logistical problems aside, however, you just can't beat the majesty of an Independence Day fireworks show at dusk with the Mall carpeted with people and the palatial museums of the Smithsonian and the monuments...
After the show, we walked up the Capitol steps to give a visiting friend from Oklahoma a view of the city. We could see all the way down the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial. Just to the side, Pennsylvania Avenue stretched past the National Gallery...