UPDATE: Mount Vernon Cancels Turkey Welcoming Ceremony
Pardoned turkeys will reside at Mount Vernon until Jan. 6.
The Mount Vernon Estate has canceled its National Thanksgiving Turkey welcoming ceremony originally scheduled for Wednesday. The ceremony has been cancelled due to the time change of the White House turkey pardoning ceremony. "It will be dark out by the time the turkeys reach Mount Vernon," Mount Vernon Media Relations Director Melissa Wood said in an email. The turkeys will arrive at Mount Vernon following a pardon from President Barack Obama at the White House. In past years, the turkey has been welcomed with fanfare and carried in a horse-drawn carriage to the front of the mansion, where Washington’s farm manager, “James Anderson,” reads a proclamation. Two turkeys are actually sent to the White House each year for the annual pardon in …
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julie haushalter
9:53 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The siblings of Gobbler and Cobbler are Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. They are really friendly! They are living out their natural lives as free range turkeys on White Oak Lavender Farm in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The farm is open to the public for free viewing of the turkeys. whiteoaklavender.com more ›