Last week, I wrote about Samuel Colt and his destruction of a ship in the harbor of New York, without ever referring to Capitol Hill. Today, I tell the second half of the tale, and how it does, indeed, relate to our neighborhood. Having proved the concept of his mines, it was now time for […]
One of our readers shares his thoughts on Thanksgiving and on making efforts to get along during this season of gratitude and beyond. Thank you, Richard, for sharing your thoughts with us and with our readership. If you have an opinion piece you’d like to share, send us an email at thehillishome@gmail.com With a contentious […]
The general election may not have gone the way we wanted it to go, but maybe if we focus on hyperlocal politics, we can find our groove again. Thank you to Kirsten Oldenburg and Denise Krepp for sending updates along. If you are an ANC commissioner and would like to share your SMD updates, send us […]
I have often written about the various experiments that have been done at the Navy Yard; this is a topic that draws me back again and again, much like the manufacturing history of the Hill on the whole does. Imagine my surprise to discover that there was an almost wholly forgotten episode that included one […]