With the opening of Yards Park and the imminent opening of Canal Park, it seems only appropriate to look at the history of the original canal on Capitol Hill. It’s hard to imagine, but there once was an active waterway cutting through Capitol Hill, by which it was possible to get all the way to […]

As Hill residents, we are all well aware of the fire engines that go screaming down our streets every day and the sight of a hook and ladder tearing by is one that only the youngest of us still find in any way exciting. It would be a very different situation, though, if those were […]

With all the discussion about redistricting, and how the boundaries are not being drawn to keep neighborhoods together  but rather for other political considerations, it brings to mind the good old American tradition of gerrymandering, a tradition almost as old as the United States – and one that has, of course, a Capitol Hill connection.

Although I had promised to write this week about the continuing life & scandals of Florence Kubel, I will push that off for one week to write a story that is related to next weekend’s house tour, and so deserves to be published before you have a chance to see the house itself.

On June 30, 1882, Charles Guiteau was executed for the assassination of President Garfield. It was just under a year since he had pulled the trigger, and the trial had held public attention for most of the intervening year. The execution took place on Capitol Hill, and the executioner himself was not only a Hill […]