Last week’s H Street festival showed, once again, what a vibrant neighborhood this has once again become. Still missing in the picture are, of course, the light rail cars for which the tracks have been laid. And that’s a pity, because it was street cars that made H street what it was originally. Today, we’ll […]
Hurricane Irene has come and gone, leaving a fair bit of cleanup in its wake. Some people went out to find their cars had been destroyed by trees, others simply had to sweep up a few extra leaves that had been blown around. Jeremy Kenney and Megan Smith were among the latter group, and were cleaning […]
I know, I know, right now, it’s all hurricanes all the time. But try to cast your mind back to, oh, last Tuesday, when the city was rattled by an earthquake. It was a startling event, but, as GreaterGreaterWashington showed, hardly unique in the history of DC. Obviously, I was intrigued – was there a […]
Two weeks ago I wrote about the background of the Lincoln Emancipation statue and how it came to be. The Lincoln Statue is one of two important statues on the Hill, the other is the statue on the top of the Capitol, and this is my subject for today. It is also relevant to me […]
Today, when we speak of train wrecks on Capitol Hill, it usually refers to some blunder made by Congress. However, not so long ago, there was a real train accident that took place at Union Station. Read today about the wreck of the Federal, and the surprising aftermath thereafter.