05 Mar 2019

Hill Buzz

Good late morning and happy Fat Tuesday, Capitol Hill! Hope the cold isn’t bothering you too much; it looks as though the arctic chill won’t hang around for the weekend, anyway. Here are a bunch of links for your knowledge pleasure, plus some earworm because I can’t stop playing this new Jonas Brothers song. On […]


04 Mar 2019

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Napoleon’s Willow

I wrote last week of Mrs. Mary Logan’s book Thirty Years in Washington. Today, I will look at what she wrote of a subject near to my heart: The Washington Navy Yard. She spends less than two pages on this important topic, starting with: The Washington Navy Yard was established when the government was moved […]


01 Mar 2019

Building community:

Congratulations to St. Peter’s on their New Organ! Listen to it SOON!

Update: Although the organ is it its new home, it will not be fully operational for the concert on March 4th. You can listen to it during the April noontime cantata series. Let’s put aside your possible feelings about religion for a minute and focus on the beauty and majesty of the best instrument ever […]


01 Mar 2019

ANC:

Updates from your ANC commissioners

We periodically share updates from your ANC commissioners, edited for brevity and clarity. Although these are most pertinent to particular single member districts (SMDs), we feel the information shared can be of interest to the whole Capitol Hill community. Are you an ANC commissioner who shares regular updates? Add thehillishome@gmail.com to your distribution list, please! –María Helena […]


01 Mar 2019

Photography:

Hill’s Eye View: Mirror, mirror

How’s that for ‘window shopping’? Clothes Encounters on 7th Street has the best window dressers around and you never know what you’ll see. Louise was lucky enough to score some jazzy winter wear — and she had to show it off! Do you capture scenes from our neighborhood? Please tag us at #thehillishome and we […]


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