Just as Sona Creamery finally got through all of the regulatory hurdles to make and sell their own cheese, they have announced that they can no longer keep the restaurant open. Had that extra revenue stream started up earlier, things may be different. Sona announced its closing on its Facebook page yesterday: We are sad […]
We may have slacked off just a wee bit with our timeline, but the time of reckoning is here. There are only four bars standing and less than a week until we find out whose boozy glory stands supreme and most beloved by the neighborhood! You may vote in this poll through Tuesday April 12 […]
A friend (OK, actually The Hill is Home’s own Maria Helena Carey) asked about the odd columns in the National Gallery’s sculpture garden. Made of dingy sandstone, they match the huts that sit on Constitution Avenue, on the Ellipse, and at the corners of 15th and 17th Streets. As it turns out, these do have […]
Your bracket is blown and by now only the most hardcore favorites remain here as well. We have bid farewell to a ton of beloved bars, eateries, dives, holes in the wall, highfalutin places that have no time for us– and places I’m pretty sure most of you didn’t even know served alcohol (I am […]
A few months ago, I wrote about Carroll’s Spring and was thus surprised to find a connection to it during the Civil War – as a camping place for the 1st Michigan Cavalry. Washington D.C. spent most of its time during the Civil War as an armed camp – and as a hospital. Given the prevalence […]