Thursday, April 28 Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Celebrate National Preservation Week at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. Visitors are invited to bring their own keepsakes for a preservation tutorial. For more details, click here. Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is located at 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE. Long View Gallery – […]
What if we told you there was an easy way to get happy? What if we told you it made other people happy too – and it was free? The key to happiness? Volunteering! Get happy this weekend at Hill Center’s annual Volunteer Capitol Hill volunteer fair. From 10 am-1 pm on Saturday, April […]
Contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor at Compass Real Estate and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. If you like charming quirky/fun spaces, we found one for you ! 440 12th St NE, Unit 303 is a […]
By Quentin Wodon Volunteering is alive and well in the United States and in the District of Columbia. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 62.6 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2014 and September 2015 nationally. That is a fourth of the population of […]
Generosity – it would seem that we all know what it is. We certainly know people who personify it. It’s that human quality that causes us to act in a giving way at some cost to ourselves. As kids, we learn that sharing something freely that we value highly is an act of generosity. In […]