Forum F.y.i.
February, 2000
Fearful that a couple of ornamental orbs dangling from George Washington's pocket watch could be mistaken for the general's testicles, educators in two Georgia school districts went to extraordinary lengths to alter the Emanuel Leutze painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. The image appeared in an elementary school history textbook. The superintendent of Muscogee County schools had a team of teacher's aides spend two weeks painting over the offending image in more than 2300 books, while some...
