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
Given that today’s a holiday, I’m taking it easy and rerunning a piece from last year. My reason for so doing is that its subject, Clara Barton, is back in the news: the office she used after the Civil War will soon be a museum. It was found untouched recently, and there has been an […]
The shutdown currently keeping us out of our local parks and giving many of our neighbors unpaid vacations is hardly a new phenomenon. Most people can point to the shutdown of 95/96 as a precursor. However, 15 years before that, a similar battle had ensued, with some – minor – effects on governmental operation.
When we left the Chapin-Sacks company last week, it looked as if they were headed for bigger and better things. Plans were afoot to not only increase their core business of butter and ice cream, but to expand into other fields, including the production of ice. It would not work out well for anyone concerned.
Scouting out the corners of Capitol Hill has been quite profitable for me. While the center of the neighborhood has some of the most well connected people to its history, the surrounding edges also have a few surprises. Almost invariably, these are the types of people and businesses that have been squeezed off the Hill […]
All across DC, usually at the intersection of two avenues, lie squares and circles honoring some important figure of US history. Usually a Civil War general (with some other wars thrown in for good measure, plus a single admiral) whose name is today better known as the location of traffic jams than anything else. On […]