The estate sale of a former White House gardener holds some surprises
Williams retired in 2008. In his 46 years overseeing the White House grounds, he had accumulated a lot of stuff connected to his job, from wooden Easter eggs imprinted withWilliams died in 2018 at age 92. His widow,, has moved out of the Herndon house they shared. An estate sale gets underway there on Friday. Earlier this week, I went over to check out the inventory.
The Williamses collected a lot of stuff: Depression glass, clocks, ceramic cookie jars, Little Red Riding Hood salt-and-pepper shakers, auto vases . What makes it an only-in-Washington estate sale is the White Housiana. That includes White House Christmas tree decorations, photos, invitations, signed presidential letters and “President Nixon: Now more than ever” campaign buttons.Then there are those tennis balls, in a plastic bag labeled “protest balls,” priced at $120 for the lot.
On April 5, 1992, an estimated 500,000 people marched in Washington in support of abortion rights. At some point during the rally, some of the protesters headed to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW to deliver a message. They wrote their sentiments on tennis balls and threw them over the White House fence.presidency, there was a protest and these people were throwing little messages onto the White House lawn,” said Irvin’s son, 68. “For some reason he picked everything up and he brought some home.
Richard said his father also brought a few living things home from the White House. There’s a big magnolia tree by the driveway that may have grown from a cutting taken from the Jackson magnolia, a magnificent specimen that . And the previous Vienna house the family lived in — Irvin, Dorothy and their five kids — had another resident: a dog named
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