Spring is on the way, really it is. Be a love and share photographs that remind us of what we anticipate so dearly about spring on Capitol Hill with the THIH Flickr group.
03
Mar
2014
Spring is on the way, really it is. Be a love and share photographs that remind us of what we anticipate so dearly about spring on Capitol Hill with the THIH Flickr group.
Last week, I wrote about the first free school opened to freed slaves in the District of Columbia, and Hamilton Wilcox Pierson, who ran it. Today, we will look at another man whose life rivals Pierson’s in breadth, and the school he opened.
Guest contributor Dare Johnson Wenzler is a Capitol Hill resident, Realtor and co-owner of First Vine Wine Imports + Sales. This post also appears on her blog Real Estate On (and off!) the Hill. Another one of those houses you’ve always walked by and wondered about is on the market and open this Sunday, March 2nd […]
There are some characters on Capitol Hill that you feel like you know simply since you’ve observed them for years. They’re threads that knit the neighborhood together, and in their absence it becomes clear how their spirit was integral to our beloved ‘burg. Louise Morgal, a staple of the market community since the 1960s, was […]
Parents of children enrolled at Payne Elementary, located at C and 14th Street Southeast, urged Capitol Hill residents, those with or without kids, to call Mayor Gray’s office to plead for funding for the school’s renovations, previously scheduled to begin next year, with total funding of $12.5 million, to be restored — and at a meeting […]