Last week, we looked at John Philip Sousa’s novel Pipetown Sandy and how it may well have been based on Sousa’s actual experiences. Today, we’ll look a little more at the geography of the book, and the central importance of the Anacostia River in its pages. Sandy Coggles’s Pipetown is pretty clearly not the actual Pipetown. […]
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Denise Krepp serves the DC community as the ANC commissioner for SMD 6B10. She shares her frustration with a recent email exchange regarding a criminal investigation in her SMD; however, her concerns affect us all in Ward 6 and throughout the city. Please read and share. – María Helena Carey In January 2017, a […]
We have spent the last few weeks looking at the Pipetown neighborhood, its birth and demise. Pipetown had one final moment in the sun in 1905, when the name of the neighborhood was used in a book written by none other than local hero John Philip Sousa (pic). While Sousa is best-known for writing marches, […]