Meet: 12:15pm – Meet at Potomac Avenue Metro, 700 14^th SE, Washington, DC.

Please join us for the annual celebration of the birthday of “The March King”, John Philip Sousa, at his burial place in Congressional Cemetery.  At 12:30pm, the Cemetery will have a ceremony honoring Sousa and at 1pm the Marine Corps band will enter for a 25 minute concert at the gravesite.  Following the concert, there will be a brief tour of the highlights of this fascinating burial ground that holds the remains of many important and notorious Americans including a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Lincoln assassination conspirator, an FBI Director, Gay rights icons, and our own mayor for life, Marion Barry.

End:  At the Congressional Cemetery gates at 2:15pm

Please note this walk is starting later than usual.