Hospitality_Recreation

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** FILE ** Sen. Jim Webb, Virginia Democrat, addresses a press conference at a hotel in Bangkok after his return from Myanmar in August 2009.

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** FILE ** Pam Service, curator of the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka, Calif., guards a stuffed condor, one of the last to fly over California's North Coast. (Associated Press)

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In this file photo, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bedecked the grounds of the Mormon Temple in Kensington for its 2008 Festival of Lights Christmas celebration. (The Washington Times) **FILE**

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AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. Presidents who took bold stands are those most memorialized and best remembered.

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People crowd the pathways of the National Mall for the kick off of the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife festival. (Caitlin J. Rattigan/ The Washington Times)

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ALLISON SHELLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Amanda Galzer (front row, left), Lauren Weeman (white tank top) and others move into the Warrior I pose during a Yoga III class at Tranquil Space Yoga.

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** FILE ** People ride on the Joker's Jinx roller coaster at the Six Flags America Amusement Park in Largo, Md., in July 2002.

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Association Press Coal River Mountain (left) forms the backdrop for a mountaintop coal-mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va.

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DAVID JOHNSON Craft beer (top) can be dark and more flavorful than wine, its boosters say. A line forms (below) for admission into Savor, a beer-and-food-pairing festival (above) held Saturday at the National Building Museum.

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In this Aug. 17, 2006, file photo, Glen Brown, 65, from D.C., passes by the Rock & Roll Hotel, a formal funeral home that was transformed into a bar and concert venue as part of a redevelopment of H street. (Nancy Pastor/The Washington Times )

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The African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest marks the service of more than 200,000 black troops in the Civil War.

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This cross was erected in the Mojave Desert in 1934 as a memorial to the war dead. (Photograph courtesy of Liberty Legal Institute)

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** FILE ** A news conference takes place in May 2009 regarding the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County, Va., where Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to build a supercenter nearby.

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** FILE ** Clint Provenza of Severna Park, Md., assists a participant up a hill during the Wounded Warrior Project Soldiers Ride in Annapolis. Below, eager riders line up at the starting line. (Tom Galligan/The Washington Times)

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Georgian tanks move along a road outside the capital, Tbilisi.

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Estimates run as high as a half-million people at the three-day Woodstock festival at Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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**FILE** This photo from July 18, 2008, shows a McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York printed with calorie counts for each food item. (Associated Press)

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Chesapeake Bay blue crabs (The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Mike Ash of Louisville, Ky., home of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, samples the restaurant's new grilled chicken entree. (Associated Press)