So, with all the freezing temps and such I’ve been advocating staying close to home and warm. Surely this is the “winter of our discontent” (Act I, Scene I). But, indeed, I did “play the devil’ (Act I, Scene 3) because you’re running out of time to see Richard III at the Folger Shakespeare Library. […]
Spring is on the way, really it is. Be a love and share photographs that remind us of what we anticipate so dearly about spring on Capitol Hill with the THIH Flickr group.
There are some characters on Capitol Hill that you feel like you know simply since you’ve observed them for years. They’re threads that knit the neighborhood together, and in their absence it becomes clear how their spirit was integral to our beloved ‘burg. Louise Morgal, a staple of the market community since the 1960s, was […]
Parents of children enrolled at Payne Elementary, located at C and 14th Street Southeast, urged Capitol Hill residents, those with or without kids, to call Mayor Gray’s office to plead for funding for the school’s renovations, previously scheduled to begin next year, with total funding of $12.5 million, to be restored — and at a meeting […]
It’s an oldie but goodie. Peabody Primary School was built in 1879, and named after George Peabody, an early American financier and philanthropist. Tim Krepp told us more a few years back. Read on to learn a bit about the neighborly hub-hub regarding the naming. It turns out Georgetown-ers and Hill-folk didn’t see eye to […]