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 […]

With today being Martin Luther King jr Day, I would usually just post a rerun from previous weeks. Today, though, I want to write about something whose importance will become more obvious next week, when I write about the old street car tunnel on Capitol Hill.

Whenever we here at the Hill is Home discuss as to what we would like to see as far as retail on the Hill, one request always stands out: A place to buy socks. The possibilities for food and drink – both cooked and uncooked – are huge, but we can also get games, kitchen […]