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Dec
2020
Goodbye and good riddance, year that was. But what were the things that captivated us the most about this dumpster fire of a year? Below, a breakdown by month of our most-clicked stories on the blog: January: Back in January, when we thought that COVID was a distant nightmare that would never affect us, we […]
As we count down the days to the next Presidential inauguration, I wanted to go back and look at tales of Hill inaugurations past. We start, as one so often does, with Thomas Jefferson. When he won the election in 1800, he was Vice President and lived on Capitol Hill in Conrad and McMunn’s boarding […]
It’s sometimes tough to imagine, but there have been some good things that have happened in this otherwise pretty gray year. One of them was the return of CHAAAP – the Capitol Hill Alphabet Animal Art Project. Sponsored by CHAW and paid for by a DDOT grant, the first ten of these animal-based artworks attached […]
My quest to find the most ridiculous occurrence in the Capitol has been ongoing for over ten years now, but I may have found a new pinnacle: The day a President was egged. The year was 1854, the day August 5, the final day of the first session of the 33rd Congress. Accordingly, President Franklin […]