When we last looked at Ann Sprigg, she was a young widow with five children to look after, running a boarding house near the Capitol to survive. It looked to be a reasonably secure existence for her. Her life did not get any better, however. Young Benjamin died on July 16, 1834, and then, almost […]
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We’ve had snow fun but are now melting, so this is the perfect kind of weather to dine al fresco and enjoy the tail end of Restaurant Week. Although almost 100 restaurants opened in the DC region last year, 50 closed and while other years I may have cavalierly told you that Restaurant Week isn’t […]
We’re emerging from the tundra, refreshed and… oh who are we kidding? The National Park Service, in addition to seldom returning phone calls, is doing their same old, same old when it comes to shoveling Hiyara upstairs opened on January 20 and Eater takes a look at the ambitious restaurant. Speaking of restaurants that recently […]
Many years ago. when I wrote my chapter on Abraham Lincoln’s time on Capitol Hill in the late 1840s, I mentioned Mrs. Sprigg, his landlady, in only one short paragraph. I simply did not know more about her, including what her first name was. To my credit, at least I spelled her last name right […]