With the end of the year upon us, and most of us more concerned with making plans for New Year’s Eve than reading about Hill history, I offer another rerun from earlier in this year. The story is – partly – related in my book, but seems appropriate with the debauchery expected of one for […]
Last week, I introduced the “Traveller’s Directory, or a Pocket Companion Shewing the Course of the Main Road From Philadelphia to New York and From Philadelphia to Washington with Descriptions of the Places Through Which It Passes, and the Intersections of the Cross Roads,” and promised to look more closely at the route described therein. […]
I have frequently gotten emails asking about some Capitol Hill location or other, and some of my most interesting columns have stemmed from user questions. But this is a first: A question via Twitter. Actually aimed at my colleague, Tim Krepp. He passed it on to me. And, what do you know, a little research later, […]
The Virginia Avenue is the railway tunnel currently getting all the press, but there’s actually a second, lesser-known, tunnel used by railways under Capitol Hill (and I don’t mean the little trains connected the Capitol with the congressional office buildings, either) No, it’s a tunnel that goes from Union Station south and west.
With the division series now tied 1-1, and playoff baseball returning to the District for the first time in 79 years, it’s time to look back at D.C.’s one World Series championship, now almost 90 years ago. And if today’s column feels familiar, that’s because it is: I originally posted it at the beginning of […]