Let There Be Light

By Roll Call Staff

Posted February 21, 2003 at 10:32am

Alison Manchester, a 16-year-old visiting Washington from Rochester, N.Y., views the plants Thursday in the orchid room at the Botanic Garden adjacent to the Capitol.

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