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 […]
Housing Complex examined some ideas for uses of the land around RFK, including an idea for a park from group calling itself the Friends of the Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park . JDLand laid out CSX’s proposed alternatives for digging their new tunnel. City Paper and DCist shared DDOT’s latest plans for where the streetcars […]
The list of people who have grown up or stopped through Capitol Hill as a young person and then returned later to be honored in one way or another is long. Rare, however, is the tumult that greeted aviator Charles Lindbergh when he returned to the United States from his record-setting flight that forever gave […]
Car break-ins and theft are typical of big city life, but a recent spat of crime has some Hill East neighbors on guard. In recent weeks, neighbors on the Hill East listserv have reported several incidents of car burglary and theft. The reports hit close to home for this THIH writer and Hill East resident, […]