By now, you may have heard that those buried at Congressional Cemetery have some adorable companions this week. That’s right! The cemetery has a big poison ivy problem and “eco goat” crews have been deployed this week to dine on some invasive Toxicodendron radicans, all the while allowing maintenance crews to do away with pesticides […]
It seems like it was just yesterday we were planning our Memorial Day barbecue, and now here we are sending out a Save the Date for the Labor Day backyard party. There are just a few more weeks to take advantage of summer, so savor every opportunity. Last week, I gave you a few […]
Do you know there are places in the country, including some right here in Washington, DC where the cemetery ISN’T a public gathering spot? Where kids don’t play, and dogs don’t run? That don’t have weekly tours and a sense of adventure and fun? Yeah, I don’t get it either. But we’re fortunate enough to […]
Uppity Women. I’m surrounded by them. I’m outnumbered three to one at home (numbers slightly improve if you count the dog). My two most recent professions, stay at home parent and tour guide, generally leave me the only man in the room. Even here, I write under the gynocratical rule of the The Hill Is […]
Colby Waller is the owner of THOR Design Studio in Capitol Hill. The images below are part of his series “The Living and the Dead”, which he shot for graduate coursework at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. One would think that when setting up a tripod and camera in a cemetery […]