With my book now at the printer, I can get back to mining the minutae of Hill history. Today’s chapter is an expansion of something I came across while researching the book, and finally, I had the time to find out more about Brinkley’s Bar, which graced 8th Street SE for about 20 years in […]
The latest statistics for the number of drivers licensed to operate vehicles in the District of Columbia show there were a total of 313,027 of them in 2003. Although the statistics don’t break out the numbers any further, it is probably a safe bet to say that 1/2 of them are women. In other words, […]
One if the things I learned when researching my house history book was the number of women who were involved in Real Estate, whether as partners to their spouses, executors of their husbands’s estates, or on their own. At least on the Hill, the concept of the stay-at-home wife who was responsible solely for the […]
The list of people who have grown up or stopped through Capitol Hill as a young person and then returned later to be honored in one way or another is long. Rare, however, is the tumult that greeted aviator Charles Lindbergh when he returned to the United States from his record-setting flight that forever gave […]
The Hill Center had its grand opening on November 19, showing to the community the results of the amazing amount of work that has been done there over the past years. Obviously, the open house was about the future, not the past, but to me, there’s always some history that can be found there. So […]