Many people have come to Capitol Hill to seek their fortune – or fame. Some, as we saw last week, went from the Hill to fame. But many, many more have arrived on the Hill with highest hopes, that they have found shattered or even landed them in jail. Usually, this happens to someone whose […]
Capitol Hill has a couple favorite sons that are well-known: J. Edgar Hoover and John Philip Sousa come to mind. But there’s also some whose connection to the Hill are not nearly as well known. One of these is the General whose reply to a German request to surrender has become world famous as a […]
In last week’s episode, we heard about Albert Grant: Builder, architect, and Civil War hero. Grant had given up his work in Wisconsin in order to enlist as a Captain in the Union army, and had fought throughout the war. Today, we will see how his life continued after the war.
On the property on which the Folger Shakespeare Library sits, there once stood a row of grand houses known as Grant’s Row, after the architect and builder who created them. The buildings were the grandest on the Hill when they were built, in 1871, and would have probably still be considered such if they had […]
In searching for something completely different, I came upon a picture of the Speaker of the House protecting their head from being pelted by something. No, it isn’t Steny Hoyer, and the projectiles aren’t tea-party brick-bats, but rather Representative Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, and he is protecting himself from large hailstones. This bizarre and – […]