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
I have been looking at the role of the Washington Navy Yard during the Civil War of late, and particularly at the days after Lincoln’s election but before his inauguration, when D.C.’s situation looked precarious at best. In this fraught time, militias sprang up across the city, and the Navy Yard was especially looked to […]
In this quiet week between Christmas and the New Year, I have decided to repost one of my favorite stories from the past year, in which I looked into the story wherein the Nathanael Greene statue in Stanton Park had fallen off its pedestal once, long ago. It is one of those stories that sound […]
Having hit the shortest day of the year, it behooves us to look forward and Spring and baseball. We will do that by looking at one of the odder matches played in Washington, when the Washington Nationals played members of the 71s Regiment, New York State Militia during the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln was […]
We’re less than two weeks from Christmas, and it’s crunch time for all of those who, like I, are chronic procrastinators. Fortunately, we here at The Hill is Home are Here To Help. If any of the people on your shopping list live in D.C., used to live in D.C., or want to live and/or […]
If you’re anything like me – and I truly hope you’re not – then you went through a phase in your life where your greatest joy was in blowing things up. Had I known at the time that there was such a job as ‘Pyrotechnist,’ I’m sure that I would’ve immediately asked ‘where do I […]