Good evening, neighbors! Hope your March is going well. By the way, if you need more COVID tests to have on hand, you can order them through the US Postal Service, as they’ve been approved to send out a second round. Click here to order. A tearful farewell for Mott’s Market moved many neighbors in […]
Happy Tuesday! Hope you’re staying warm and keeping the hope alive in your heart, because this year’s peak blossom dates were announced this morning! There will be peak blossoms –that is, 70% of the flower canopy open and begging for photos– between March 22-25 this year. The festival will be in person again, and it […]
Happy Wednesday, everyone! We’re expecting some company from out of town, so make sure you swing by the grocery store for toilet paper and milk, the forever staples of staying in place, just in case. What else is going on? Many of us have been on tenterhooks, waiting to know more about the trucker convoy […]
Five years ago, we looked at the aftermath of a raid on Henry Wilson, 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 […]
Good gorgeous afternoon! Let’s start this Hill Buzz by issuing our condolences to the Shannon family on the passing of Richard “Dickie” Shannon, whose fish sandwiches were the stuff dreams are made on at his eponymous restaurant, Horace and Dickie’s. Shannon passed away this past Sunday. WTOP Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff was visiting Dunbar High […]