In December 2007, the Episcopal parishes of St. Monica’s and St. James merged and became the Parish of St. Monica and St. James, located at the original St. James parish location at C and Eighth Streets NE. The vacated church building where St. Monica’s was originally located, on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and A […]
I started using my bike as a primary means of transportation when I moved to Capitol Hill in 2005. I loved the freedom bike riding afforded me—I wasn’t a slave to slow Metro trains, no-show Metro buses, and parking enforcement drones that would ticket in an instant—but I quickly learned that the city is not […]
If you’ve spent your last few weekends cleaning out your cabinets, storage units, garages, etc, you’re likely to have a giant pile of junk that isn’t really suitable for goodwill, not worth keeping, but also not something you can put out with your weekly trash collection. For example, electronics that don’t work any more, old […]
The rain may be putting a damper on people’s spirits, but at least the flowers in my yard are flourishing as a result! Unfortunately, the rain came too late to kill the pollen that has given so many of us major allergy issues. I feel like I should be buying stock in Sudafed…Well just a […]
After my post last week about the Blue Castle and its history as a cable car barn, it seems only appropriate to look at the other large structure built to take care of DC mass transit: The East Capitol Car Barn. As mentioned last week, cable cars – which had themselves supplanted horsedrawn public transport […]