Heather Rogers — “We haven’t had a president with facial hair in more than a century” and Other Trivial Observations

Heather Rogers

Heather Rogers filled hundreds of sketchbook pages doodling her way through presidential biographies. Doing so heightened her curiosity and turned her into an insufferable presidential nerd. Along the way, she discovered unexpected threads connecting seemingly unconnected people, times, and events. She can’t get enough of the weird trivia, coincidences, and quirks. Like the fact that we haven’t had a president with facial hair since Taft. Or that General Washington illegally inoculated his troops. Don’t even get her started on Herbert Hoover, who was pronounced dead when he was two. Take a walk through her sketchbooks as she shares some of her favorite tidbits, observations, and resurrection stories about the first 36 presidents.