Will you be setting up a yard sale on the Hill this weekend? Let us know in the comments! And be sure to stop by the 800 block of 5th Street NE from 8:30AM-12:30PM. A number of families on both sides of the street will be participating and they’ll be an array of items from toys […]
Here at The Hill is Home we were very sad to hear that Fred Berger, dad to Nathan Berger of Beuchert’s Saloon, passed away in April. Fred died of pancreatic cancer, a particularly painful and devastating type of cancer with very low survival rates. (You can learn more about pancreatic cancer by clicking here.) In […]
Don’t you love seeing the DC flags on display throughout our neighborhood? You’ll spot it everywhere: flagpoles, on the side of homes, emblazoning everything from t-shirts and sunglasses to kid’s onesies. Want to make a big statement about our fair city? Enter the DC Flag Day Contest, and get to it before Flag Day, this Sunday, […]
One of the best things about DC and, specifically, about the Hill, is the free and unfettered access to museums. For Capitol Hill residents, a ten-minute walk places us in the center of one of the best art collections in the world but… how did that art get here? How much of it is, objectively, […]
For the past couple of years, the Anacostia Watershed Society has partnered with local schools to help with the shad population in the Anacostia River. By protecting the eggs during their gestation and hatching, a far larger percentage of the eggs turn into hatchlings, jump-starting the fish’s recovery in the river. As it turns out, […]