With baseball season upon us, and the Nationals due to take to the field for their first Spring Training game in less than a week, it seems appropriate to look back at some baseball history on the Hill, starting with a game played in 1909, which started a decades-long tradition. In this case, the game […]
Every so often we here at The Hill is Home like to help you, our loyal and busy reader, with some basic civic engagement. We know that you don’t always have time to attend office hours with your local community leaders, so we’re doing it for you. Are you wondering when you can get your […]
Performance Parking is coming to H Street: Frozen Tropics and Greater Greater Washington. NPR’s The Salt and Tell Me More had a nice profile on The Sweet Lobby Curbed DC shared more details and drawings of the new residential plans for the Specialty Hospital. Greater Greater Washington reported that the Gray administration is holding up […]
One of the ways I try to keep my tour groups’ eyes open is to have them search for something in a monument or memorial we are visiting. My personal favorite is the – repaired — error on the engraving of the Second Inaugural Address of the Lincoln Memorial, which can see in the picture […]
One recent brisk Saturday morning I was walking through Eastern Market with my wife and daughter after a filling breakfast at Tortilla Cafe, and my little one asked, “Daddy is that a skating rink?” She was pointing at the flat concrete pad that was the home of the temporary market structure, across 7th Street SE […]