As a DCPS parent, I am always intrigued by the history of the schools in DC, and Capitol Hill particularly. The fight for free, universal, and quality education is one that goes back almost to the founding of the city. Today, we will look at one of the shorter-lived schools on the Hill – but […]
Today is Presidents’s Day, and thus a Federal Holiday. This means that most government institutions are closed. For the librarians at the Library of Congress, this is not an excuse not to work, but rather an opportunity to show everyone what it is that they do. Thus, the main reading room of the Library of […]
To residents of Capitol Hill, it seems like it was just yesterday that the city (and region) were completely paralyzed by a snow storm double-whammy, leaving locals with nothing to do but frolic in the unusual piles of snow that surrounded them. In fact, it has been four years since “Snowmageddon,” and today marks the […]
Today, we will look at another Capitol Hill composer. He, admittedly, has little to do with our neighborhood, for he only lived here for a few years, and his biggest ‘hit’ was a little ditty he wrote for a shoe store, but that one piece makes it all worth it.
A friend recently mentioned that he used to take the DC street cars through a tunnel on Capitol Hill. As this touched on two of my favorite topics — street cars and tunnels– I immediately began researching. Sadly, it is not a terribly long story, nor was it a very long tunnel, but it was […]