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Nearly 30,000 expected at annual White House Easter Egg Roll

AP  |  Washington 

The is opening the gates for its biggest social event of the year, the annual Egg Roll.

and his wife, Melania, are hosting festivities on the South Lawn for a crowd of nearly 30,000 adults and children. That's larger than last year, Trump's first year in office, when the said it expected 21,000 attendees.

The announced last week that lawn bowling has been added to a roster of festivities that includes the tradition of rolling of hard-boiled eggs across the lawn.

There's also a nook where and other officials will take turns reading books and a station for kids to make greeting cards for US troops.

The Egg Roll dates to 1878.

(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

First Published: Mon, April 02 2018. 10:25 IST
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