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
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 […]
Last week, we looked at the first Japanese Embassy to the United States, and its arrival on the east coast of the country at the Navy Yard. In today’s installment, we will look at their return visit and what they saw there. The two weeks following the Japanese Embassy’s arrival in Washington were spent in […]
Stabbing in the Senate Colleen Shogan Camel Press 2015 Thrillers set on Capitol Hill have a long history – the Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: Washington D.C. lists some 100 books set at least partially on the Hill. Some are well-known, such as Margaret Truman’s Murder on Capitol Hill, others like Carolyn Banks’s The Girls on […]
I have previously written about visitors to the Washington Navy Yard. Today, I introduce another group: The first ambassadors to the United States from the newly opened country of Japan. In 1860, seven years after Commodore oorooatthew Perry had established trading with Japan, the Japanese government sent an ambassador to the United States, along with […]
A friend recently told me that a story told in his neighborhood was that the Nathanael Greene statue in Stanton Park had fallen off its pedestal once, long ago. He wanted to know if this was actually true or not – certainly something right up my alley. I said that it sounded somehow familiar, but that […]