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
Today is Presidents’s Day, and thus a Federal Holiday. This means that most government institutions are closed. For the librarians at the Library of Congress, this is not an excuse not to work, but rather an opportunity to show everyone what it is that they do. Thus, the main reading room of the Library of […]
To residents of Capitol Hill, it seems like it was just yesterday that the city (and region) were completely paralyzed by a snow storm double-whammy, leaving locals with nothing to do but frolic in the unusual piles of snow that surrounded them. In fact, it has been four years since “Snowmageddon,” and today marks the […]
Today, we will look at another Capitol Hill composer. He, admittedly, has little to do with our neighborhood, for he only lived here for a few years, and his biggest ‘hit’ was a little ditty he wrote for a shoe store, but that one piece makes it all worth it.
A friend recently mentioned that he used to take the DC street cars through a tunnel on Capitol Hill. As this touched on two of my favorite topics — street cars and tunnels– I immediately began researching. Sadly, it is not a terribly long story, nor was it a very long tunnel, but it was […]
All across the country, including the District, the primary emotion when dealing with schools is angst. Whether about curricula, testing, international comparisons, or whatever, the discussions appear endless and intractable. Fortunately, many schools are forging on on their own, striving to broaden their students’s education without losing track of their primary objective. One school on […]