Mount Vernon is Ours Author:Elswyth Thane Nov. 1866 The first meeting of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association "Lookong back ffom our present assured stand-point of an accomplished fact, my memory cannot fail to recall the early vissitudes, the oft-discouraging progress of our labor of love, in redeeming from oblivion and sure decay the home and grave of the immortal Washington! Then ... more »we lived on hope!« less