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
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 […]
Last week, I looked at the arrival of Frank Frager in the US and the murder of the man he had come here with. The murder remained unsolved and a year and a half afterward. The state of the case was summarized in an article along with other unsolved mysteries, and the newspaper opined that, […]
For the next couple of weeks, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the opening of Frager’s Hardware Store, I am going to do what I do best: Look at its history, and particularly at the three men who carried the name Frager who were involved in its success. The story begins in Russia. It […]
It’s Labor Day, and so time for another rerun, and one that once again combines two of my interests: Airships and the Capitol. It’s something that I have written about and touched upon in the past, but here’s my favorite story again. On October 11, 1928, the airship Graf Zeppelin took off from Friedrichshafen, in […]
I promised last week to look at the state that the Capitol was in during the 19th century, building on the rather dire description given of it by Charles Dickens in 1842, but realized that I have to put that off for a bit in order to introduce a new character before continuing. While today […]