With Congress coming back from recess (or ‘State Work Period’ in the Senate side, and ‘Constituent Work Week’ in the House side) it’s time for the usual contests that congressmembers hold. Today, this means baseball matches, or bets on their states’ sports teams. In the past, it has also meant other contests as well– including […]
Last week, we looked at the first school on Capitol Hill – the Eastern Free School – and how it opened in a rented building next to the Capitol. Today, we look at how a purpose-built school replaced it, and the state of public education in the early years of Washington D.C.
If you have a couple of hours to kill, I can highly recommend the website Shorpy. Filled with pictures from bygone eras, it captures everything from the earth-shaking to the mundane. I was happily paging through it the other day when I came across a picture of a rather ordinary wooden building with two men […]
After I published last week’s column, a friend pointed out an egregious error that I had made in writing it: I had entirely failed to mention the name of the sculptor of the piece. This was particularly painful in that he had truly put his life into the work. So, today I will rectify my […]
I am currently in the last throes of the writing of my latest book, on the urban legends of Washington DC, so today, I will talk about a statue in the Rotunda of the Capitol, around which many different stories have swirled. According to a writer on the website Conservatives4Palin.com, “Within the walls of the […]