Today’s ship was not built in the Washington Navy Yard, but served honorably from there throughout the Civil War – and was captained for a number of years by a local. When, in 1858, the US Navy decided to send a fleet of ships up the Río Paraná to demand an apology for the Paraguay’s attack on […]
There are things you mean to do for a very, very, very long time. Ok– I speak for myself and the list is long, but it’s time to finally visit one very local historical spot that far too few of us ever took the time to visit. As we shared with you last February, Display Ship Barry […]
Last week, we looked at the life of the first interviewer: Anne Royall. Today, a little more about her time on Capitol Hill – and especially when she found herself on the wrong end of public opinion. When Royall returned to Capitol Hill in January, 1829 to finish the third of her ‘Black Books’ she […]
Interviews are an important part of the reporter’s tool-kit, whether to be published as a stand-alone piece, or to simply to gather information and quotes for an article. This art form is, however, not all that old–less than 200 years. The first practitioner was Anne Royall, who developed it out of necessity when she found […]
One of the largest ships in the US Navy during the Civil War was finished at the Washington Navy Yard. After having built various parts of the USS Pensacola in navy yards in states that had seceded, it was fortunate that the final work was done at the Yard: that way, the US Navy could keep it. […]