Did You Know that the Man Who Posed as Washington for the Quarter was Born in Wicomico County?
It’s true! Drexel M. Truitt, the man who posed as George Washington for the quarter was born in Pittsville in Wicomico County. Truitt was an actor who used the name “David Ward”. He played the role of George Washington many times in movies and on stage, and bore such a resemblance to Washington that he was used as the model for the head on the 25-cent piece when it was issued in 1932.
A really good documentary on the History Channel showed the death masks that were made when the Presidents died.A computer analyzed the masks in 3-D and produced an exact likeness.Washington looked quite different than he did in the old paintings,but Lincoln looked exactly as we have always seen him.
Pittsville must have been full of pretenders. First this guy and later was that yahoo who invented Kwanzaa.
ReplyDelete9:33-He was from Parsonsbug.
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ReplyDeleteHe was born in Parsonsburg.
The woman that posed as Hillary was a robot.
ReplyDeleteA really good documentary on the History Channel showed the death masks that were made when the Presidents died.A computer analyzed the masks in 3-D and produced an exact likeness.Washington looked quite different than he did in the old paintings,but Lincoln looked exactly as we have always seen him.
ReplyDeleteJuly 25, 2018 at 9:36 PM:
ReplyDeletePainted portraits will always look different than photographs. There were no cameras in George Washington's time.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE. Pittsville, that is.
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