31 Jul 2017

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Pipetown Sandy pt. 2

Last week, we looked at John Philip Sousa’s novel Pipetown Sandy and how it may well have been based on Sousa’s actual experiences. Today, we’ll look a little more at the geography of the book, and the central importance of the Anacostia River in its pages. Sandy Coggles’s Pipetown is pretty clearly not the actual Pipetown. […]


09 Jan 2017

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: John W. Westfall

I am always looking for connections to Capitol Hill in events that took place around D.C. over the years, with the Lincoln assassination being one of the best-known. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that a local man had actually helped stop a previous attempt on Lincoln’s life by John Wilkes Booth. On March 4, 1865, […]


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