Over the winter holidays, I will be going on hiatus from my usual Lost Capitol Hill columns, as I will be working on my book on scandals of the Hill. In the meantime, I have dug out some of my old columns. While in my usual columns about lost Capitol Hill I write about landmarks […]
Earlier this year, DC resident Kathy Jackson lay in her hospital bed, weakened from the treatments to fight her leukemia. She couldn’t see her three children, Joseph, Sam, and Tyler (ages 12, 8, and 7, respectively) because exposure to their normal childhood germs could have been disastrous. A bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy had destroyed her immune […]
If our streetcar update last week wasn’t enough for you, check out Housing Complex, HuffPost DC, and H Street Great Street. DCmud reported on the newest Hill East apartments, Kennedy Row. Curbed DC is having a contest to see which neighborhood is the best. We all know which one should win — now go make […]
One if the things I learned when researching my house history book was the number of women who were involved in Real Estate, whether as partners to their spouses, executors of their husbands’s estates, or on their own. At least on the Hill, the concept of the stay-at-home wife who was responsible solely for the […]
You all know I LOVE a good streetcar meeting. I think my first post for THIH was about the near-mythical streetcar. I have been watching this drama unfold for the past 5 years with glee. I come from a theatre background so I can’t help it. Positions such as “The WIRES of DOOM that will […]