The muggy days of August have settled in. Makes you want to sit in the shade with a crisp cool drink. The traditional porch on the house pictured at left would be a great place to kick back and cool down. Listed at $599,000, its open from 1-4pm on Sunday. Check out this and other […]
Capitol Hill is like glue– it keeps a community together and it keeps people coming back. When I first moved here, I made friends with a local blogger who, unbeknownst to me at the time, had ties binding him to the Hill. I asked him to share some of his favorite memories with me. One […]
Are you one of the few who actually stays in town in August? You’re not alone – I know many Washingtonians who love staying in town during the steamy month since it becomes wonderfully quiet as everyone else escapes to the beach. Here are some of our top picks for how to spend this weekend […]
Capitol Hill is, contra my usual focus, not just buildings. Today’s post concerns itself with a different Capitol Hill icon, Senator Ted Kennedy, whose passing robbed the Senate of an institution as well as the nation’s third longest-serving Senator. Edward Moore Kennedy first arrived in the Senate on November 7, 1962, to take over the […]
When Abraham Lincoln moved to Capitol Hill in 1847 as a freshman congressman from Illinois’s 7th district, he soon found lodging in Mrs. Sprigg’s Boardinghouse. Her house was the second from the north of a row of five houses fronting 1st Street SE, just across from the Capitol. Lincoln spent two years in this house, […]