Friendship House. The Maples. Duncanson House. Whatever name you use to refer to the mansion on the 600 block of South Carolina, you know that George Washington referred to it as “a fine house in the woods.” After all, it says so on the sign out front, the American Institute of Architects has been saying […]
Your typical good Samaritan may pick up an abandoned purse or wallet tossed after a mugging or even a child’s sippy cup or toy that’s been catapulted from a stroller, in hope of returning them, but it really takes an upstanding citizen to haul home a hundred pound urn and locate its proper owner years […]
Public transportation on the Hill has been a work in progress since day 1, so the changes in progress today are hardly anything new. The addition of the Circulator and the exciting promise of the street cars are adding great new options for getting around our neighborhood. I have in the past mentioned the Herdic […]
Full disclosure: When people come to visit my hometown, we have to decide if we’re going to take them to the Big Texan Steak Ranch where they might attempt to eat a 72 ounce steak in one hour or if we’d rather show off the Cadillac Ranch — a collection of spray-painted Cadillac cars buried […]
Half a mile northeast of the Capitol stands a statue of Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene. It was one of the first equestrian statues in DC, and is well-known for being one of the best of its genre, anywhere. General Greene is shown spurring his soldiers on towards victory, pointing towards an enemy that hasn’t […]