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
While reading the D.C. Register live-tweeting as done by Helder Gil every Saturday, I came across the intriguing information that a part of 10th Street NE was to be renamed ‘Outlaw Way.’ Since outlaws have, frankly, never been much of the fabric of Capitol Hill life, this required immediate research. As it turned out, no person […]
The last two weeks, I have looked at two aspects of the LGBT history of Capitol Hill, this week I want to look at a place close to my heart: The Furies House. When my wife and I bought our house on Capitol Hill, I was a computer programmer, so the obvious thing for me […]
As we continue our look at LGBT history in the runup to the Capital Pride Festival, we will look at some of the bars on Capitol Hill that catered to the LGBT community over the years. According to the Rainbow History Projects walking tour of Capitol Hill, the earliest site was 500 8th Street SE, where […]
Over the next three weeks, leading up to the Capital Pride Festival, beginning on June 7, I will look at some of the sites connected with LGBT history on the Hill. We will start today with the place where many of my stories end: Congressional Cemetery. In the 1980s, at the height of the AIDS […]
In trying to find a more soothing topic to write about after the rather dour stories from the last two weeks, I came across a story that was… well, bucolic. I originally stumbled across an article in the Washington Evening Star of May 26, 1856 that described a new painting showing the city of Washington […]