Robert Pohl worked for many years as a computer programmer but recovered from that and became a full time stay-at-home dad. With his son now in school, he has expanded his horizons and become a self-taught historian. He has written books about his house as well as Emancipation in the District of Columbia. You can reach Robert at Robert[at]thehillishome.com
You probably saw him around the Hill, pedaling a bicycle with an enormous black box on the front, a box from which he would remove all manner of equipment that allowed him to fix whatever had gone wrong in Capitol Hill row house. Or maybe you even were one of the lucky ones whose house […]
One of my favorite museums in D.C. is also the one I least get to take my groups to: The National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Tucked inside the Washington Navy Yard at the southern end of Barracks Row, it lays out the 245 year history of those who have fought for our country on […]
A long weekend is a time for reruns, and while Indigenous Peoples’ Day is usually an opportunity to point people towards the Library of Congress open house, this not an option this year. Instead I took a second look at story that fits in with my recent interest in airship pictures. In this case, my […]
I recently was asked about the stables that used to be near Garfield Park. This sparked a vague memory from when I hung out at that park with my pre-school son,ten-plus years ago, but nothing else. Fortunately, the Washington Post covered the situation fairly thoroughly over the years, so here’s the story of the old […]
In the last two weeks, I introduced Frank Frager and told about how he opened his hardware store. Today, I will look at the rest of the story. While Frank Frager tended to his store, his sons were out to make names for themselves. While they occasionally were mentioned in long lists of students who […]