30 May 2017

News:

Hill Buzz

RFK Memorial Project Launches As Anchor For Stadium Site (DCist) Sales Underway for Luxury Buchanan Park Townhomes on Capitol Hill (Urban Turf) On Anniversary of Charnice Milton’s Death, a Bullet Hole Still Marks Where She Was Killed (Washington City Paper) Slipstream Now Open at New Jersey and I (JDLand) Sewage Spills in Capitol Hill Montessori […]


30 May 2017

Editorials:

WMATA Settlements and Your Tax Dollars

Last week, The Washington Post reported that 25 lawsuits against WMATA and the District of Columbia relating to the 2015 L’Enfant tunnel incident have been dismissed and no one knows why. According to The Washington Post, a lawyer representing several of the plaintiffs says he can’t explain why the cases were dismissed. WMATA and District […]


29 May 2017

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Olive Kimball and His Amphitheater

To those (assumedly exceedingly small number of people) actually reading THIH today, I say, Welcome to beginning of summer! With it being Memorial Day and all, today’s column will be a rerun. This rerun is actually appropriate for the day, as it concerns a Capitol Hill resident’s work building the amphitheater at Arlington Cemetery, site […]


23 May 2017

News:

Hill Buzz

Navy Yard’s Salt Line Set to Start Shucking Oysters June 1 (Eater DC) A Pair of Capitol Hill Alley Dwellings To Address the Missing Middle (Urban Turf) Star Wars Yoga in the Middle of a Cemetery Is the Break You Need (Washingtonian) DCRA/City Faulted as Weed Business Moves into Capitol Hill Residential Neighborhood (Capitol Hill […]


22 May 2017

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Henry and Sylvia Wilson

Last week, we looked at the aftermath of a raid on a young enslaved African-American. Despite having almost bought himself free, he was taken away from Mrs. Sprigg’s boarding house and sold. Joshua Giddings, Abraham Lincoln’s messmate at Mrs. Sprigg’s, attempted to rescue the young man from a slave pen, but was thwarted because Henry Wilson had […]


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