As the new H Street street cars become ever closer to reality, it seems appropriate to look at the street car system on the Hill. This final chapter of the series Public Transportation on the Hill is an overview of the system ca. 1920.
One of the nice things about getting to know realtors is that you sometimes get invited to realtor-only open houses during the week. And they usually serve food. I can pretty much be lured anywhere by the promise of lunch from Chix, truth be told. Earlier this week I went over to check out the […]
Since the beginning of the summer, I’ve given you a zillion excuses to have a yard sale — getting rid of clutter, making space for new stuff, etc. But this weekend, forget all that. Just pull some random stuff out of your house and put it on the sidewalk purely for the pleasure of having […]
This is a quickie. It takes such a short amount of time, I don’t think of it. It is over before you know it, and yet it is something you remember forever (or I do). So, it is something many of us take for granted — walking to school. The Hill’s neighborhood elementary schools take […]
It’s the weekend in which we all accept that summer’s really over. There’s no beach trip. No National Mall overrun with tourists in “You Don’t Know Me” t-shirts. No Friday night parades at the Barracks. But, don’t despair! You live on Capitol Hill. There’s always some fun stuff to do.