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Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

DC Kids #SingFreeOrDie at US Capitol

On Sunday at 10 a.m. about 30 DC kids sang their version of Last Week Tonight’s States’ song, from the August 2, 2015 show at the East Front Capitol. Apart from the kids and their parents the happy crowd included Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Shadow Senators Michael D. Brown and Paul Strauss, and Miss District […]

Neighbors Rally to Catch Hill East Thief

Every once in a while you hear of people coming together as a community and doing something heroic. Sometimes, that community is your community. This weekend, we received an email from a Hill East neighbor sharing one such story. A resident who’s called the Hill home for less than a year put his front porch surveillance […]

NEW DETAILS: DC KIDS’ SINGALONG FOR STATEHOOD, SUNDAY!

Since our initial post about a singalong for DC Statehood inspired by John Oliver and Last Week Tonight, more than a few people have been interested in either joining or knowing more about this effort. First off, here is what a few folks have been saying around the interwebs: Links from the Washington Post, HillNow, DCist, Washington City Paper, Quartz, KidfriendlyDC and Washingtonian. […]

#GOPDebate Fun At Home & Around the Hill

If you lived anyplace else, this would just be Thursday. But here in DC, everyone is gearing up to watch the first Republican candidate debate. If you’re a Republican, you are watching because you want to form an educated opinion on which candidate –out of 17* – cares most about your issues. The independents also seek […]

Help Find Munchers the Dino

UPDATE: Munchers is home! Thank you everyone! It was supposed to be a homecoming. He would visit his hometown and see old friends, but for Munchers the Stuffed Dinosaur, life is looking a little uncertain as of lunch earlier today. Munchers, who has been in the family of recent Hill transplant Paul Donohoo-Vallett since 2008, […]