Photo From the Attic: Queen for a Day By Roll Call Staff Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:23pm Facebook Twitter Email Reddit Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley (D-Ky.) crowns Peggy Townsend the queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Potomac Park on March 31, 1939. Recent Stories Cole considered early favorite to win House Appropriations gavel Joseph Lieberman, an iconoclast who frustrated the Democratic Party, dies at 82 Officials: Baltimore bridge price tag could be at least $2 billion Race to House majority runs through the 10 Toss-ups Kuster will not seek reelection in New Hampshire Appeals court extends hold on Texas deportation law