When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems. - Grant Wood

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Grant Wood: "When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems."

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Enlightened	Famous	Generation	George
Gospel	Happened	Incident	Invention
Learned	Locke	Mason	Most
Present	Story	Tree	Truth
Washington	Washingtons	Weems	Younger

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