06
Nov
2021
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Hopefully yours won’t have treason or a gunpowder plot, but will be lovely and memorable all the same! What’s going on? Well, it may be an absolutely luminous and gorgeous afternoon, but we’re getting a frost advisory for tonight, so before you go out and have fun you’re gonna […]
Happy November, everyone! A big, huge shoutout to the friends and neighbors who went out of their way to make our Halloween season extra happy, spooky and twinkly. Is it too early to start the #LightUpTheHill map? If you already have plans on the works to decorate your home — you know who you are– […]
Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from reader Emily W. She’d spotted the following sign along 4th Street NE while out for a walk: The note was, in a word, heartrending. A military widow and mother of two was growing two pie pumpkins in her side yard –which is actually a small neighborhood plot in […]
I recently wrote an overview of what we know about the indigenous people of Washington D.C. and Capitol Hill in particular. Today, in honor of Indigenous People’s Month, is the first of a series of articles looking more closely at what we know about them. The earliest account of those living on what would become […]