Photo of the Day

No. 521

playing possum

First Lady Grace Coolidge takes her pet raccoon Rebecca for a walk during the annual White House Egg Roll. April 18, 1927.

Would you cook a raccoon for your Thanksgiving dinner?

That was the question First Lady Grace Coolidge faced in 1926, when a supporter from Mississippi gave one to her husband.

But, as it turns out, Grace Coolidge was an …