America 250 #385 By Hank Silverberg Over the next few months there will be celebrations across the country to commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States. This is certainly something to celebrate. Our form of government, revolutionary in 1776, has survived rapid, often uncontrolled growth, a bloody Civil War, the racial inequality that still stains our ideals, corporate greed that divides us by class, and political turmoil that seems to crop up again and again every 30 years or so. (Washington reconstructed boyhood home at Ferry Farms I thought about all this as my wife and I visited Ferry Farm in nearby Stafford County, Virginia. Though most people think of Mount Vernon as Washington's home, it was Ferry Farm where he spent his childhood. He lived there until he was 22 years old with his mother and four siblings. His father died when George was...