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 […]
Are you an alumni of Stuart Junior High or Stuart-Hobson Middle School? Do you have family members who have at some point attended or worked at the school? If you answered yes to either of these questions, a series of upcoming “Family Connections Nights” may be of interest to you. The first event will be […]
Boundary Road opened last night — coverage from Frozen Tropics, EaterDC, and Urban Daddy. JDLand reported that starting March 31, DPW will be parking its truck fleet in NE instead of on New Jersey Avenue, SE. This move will allow for the demolition of the old trash transfer building at New Jersey and K […]
With my book now at the printer, I can get back to mining the minutae of Hill history. Today’s chapter is an expansion of something I came across while researching the book, and finally, I had the time to find out more about Brinkley’s Bar, which graced 8th Street SE for about 20 years in […]