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 […]
October is here which means you can break out the Halloween candy and dress up your pet without embarrassment. But before you sit down in front of that plastic pumpkin full of sugar, why not get a little exercise? The second annual Dead Man’s Run at Congressional Cemetery is this Saturday (Oct 6) from 6-8p. […]
Fundraising and grassroots activism comes in all kinds of forms. The Canine Corp, the growing group of folks who pay to walk their pups at the Congressional Cemetery, was born of hopes to make the historic grounds, located adjacent to the DC Jail, safer and to raise funds for the crumbling and deteriorating 35 acre […]