Hey! Spooky Season is just around the corner and our Spooky Hill is Home map will make a comeback! Are you decorating your home? Want to be featured in our map? If so, fill out this form! Thanks! Fall started with a lot of rain and a definite drop in temps. Are the mosquitoes dead? […]
I have looked at a number of aspects of Eastern Market since I started writing about Hill history. In fact, my first contribution to this site was to take pictures at its reopening in 2009. However, I’ve never tried to encompass the entire history of it until I was asked to give a talk to […]
Let me be the first to ask: Do you remember the twenty-first night of September? What will you be doing this night and for the next ones until we meet again? Also, happy equinox on Saturday! Set those intentions for a cozy, sweaterful fall! Theatre Week starts TONIGHT, September 21, and you can catch all the […]
Happy Wednesday! What’s going on? Are you celebrating Hispanic Heritage? If you want a quick way to appreciate a spunky Latinx in your life, donate to THIH’s Venmo! The ongoing talk about bands of dogs and their owners hunting rats in DC alleyways was restarted thanks to a recent Washington Post article about the practice […]
A few years ago, I looked at a few incidents of the life of Michael Shiner, who was born enslaved in Southern Maryland and brought to D.C. Here he was forced to work at the Navy Yard and observed the burning of Washington in 1814; he was later freed, but continued to work for the […]