05
May
2020
Last week, I introduced Mary Clemmer Ames, long-time Capitol Hill resident, and mentioned some of her books. Today, I want to look at one that still contains information of interest today: Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, As a Woman Sees Them. The book is copyrighted 1873, and was republished […]
Finding new items to research for this column is a haphazard business. It sometimes feels like a stochastic walk through history, with my research leading me to a completely different area from what I set out to find out about. For instance, I found a charming little tale about newlyweds at the Capitol written by […]
Hey neighbors! It’s yet another week of this new normal and my question is, What is normal anyway? A burglar who had been terrorizing H Street NE storefronts has been caught, thank goodness. Washingtonian The burglar stole between $2000 and $3000 worth of wine from Dio Wine Bar, but was not successful elsewhere. Eater Adding […]
One of my favorite things to talk about on Capitol Hill is the Statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol. Whether it is about the statue itself or the remarkable journey it took from Thomas Crawford’s studio in Italy to Washington or how its height does not, in fact, represent a maximum for all […]