The National Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off today. The first cherry blossom festival was organized in 1935, and ever since, the brief but extraordinarily striking blooms have come to represent spring for Washingtonians.
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First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki. Photograph of Taft courtesy of the Library of Congress; Photograph of Ozaki courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The National Cherry Blossom Festival includes live music and dance performances. Above, the National Cherry Blossom Festival Opening Ceremony. Photograph by Ron Engle.
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