Similar to the game of telephone, the more history is spoken, the more times it is altered. Although history is not actually changed itself, the way it is perceived is. A monumental myth of a historian that has had a few folktales about him, is the first President of the United States, George Washington. Washington was claimed to have chopped down a cherry tree at a young age and then later used the tree to make himself a set of wooden teeth. As children, often this story was reiterated. Although this story would be compelling, it is, according to personal accounts of Washington himself and his dentists, false. George Washington’s personal journals and letters go on to prove, that what most of us learned as children, that Washington had wooden
