This Month
4 From Pasta Fazoo
to Gefilte Fish:
History of Food—
Capitol Hill Style
6 Digging It!
U n e a rthing the
Original Eastern
Market
9 Capitol Hill Al
Fresco—Garden
Parties with Style
12 The Dinner Part y :
Setting a Place in
the Pew
14 More than A Loaf
and A Jug: A Hill of
Picnics
16 Herb Lehner Ta l k s
about Making It and
Giving Back
D e p a rt m e n t s
Vo i c e M a i l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Ask Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 9
Spencer Says . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 1
Business Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 3
Business Serv i c e s. . . . . . .2 7
D o w n L o a d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 9
Capital Kids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 8
Kids’ Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . .4 2
H o ro s c o p e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 3
Community Calendar . . .4 3
C l a s s i f i e d s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 6
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up. I am frequently in the 7-11
and am happy that they are
back on the corner but what
good are the trash cans if they
never get emptied?
Bank of America on the corner of 7th
and D: Shame on you! On a recent
Saturday trek up 8th Street to the
Metro Plaza, the trash from the ATM
machines was a disgrace, and this was
the weekend of the CHRS house
tour. Not putting our best foot forward.
Ahh, our friends the developers.
CHRS house tour weekend found some
of the Ellen Wilson perpetrators, the
ones that still remain Hill residents
proudly showing off what the limousine
liberals have done for Capitol Hill. What
they were not showing off was the
incredible mess of an empty lot on 6th
Street, which is rarely mowed and has
become a trash-strewn mess.
And across the same street, we find
Dayton Investment’s crown jewel! An
overgrown blight on our street. For
years the previous owners kept the lot
mowed and tidy. Come on Drew
[Scallan], would you tolerate this in
Wesley Heights?
Everyone has a role to play in the
desirability and cleanliness of our Hill
neighborhoods. And while the DPW
workers are less than thorough at
times, who creates the messes that we
disparage—and expect others to clean
up?
J IM SIMPSON
6th & G SE
This letter was posted to the discus -
sion area of www.voiceofthehill.com. A
response follows.
To the Editor:
I read with interest the e-mail posted
on your web site about the litter situation
in front of the Bank of America
ATMs at 8th and D Streets SE. Please
be assured that ownership is working
with the bank’s property management
division to replace the single small
trashcan with a larger
and more accessible
receptacle.
However, all of
us need to exhibit
more civic
pride not only
by disposing of our
trash responsibly but occasionally (hor -
ror of hor rors) picking up the trash
carelessly left by others!
Sincerely,
MAURICE KREINDLER,
Manager, Capitol Hill Investors LLC
P.S. Keep up the great work you do
with both the Voice and your web site.
The following letter concerning the
recent traffic study on 8th Street, SE
was sent to Ken Laden of DC’s
Department of Public Works on June 4,
2001 by the Barracks Row MainStreet
Board of Directors, and copied to us.
For more on this stor y, see the
Download section of this issue, page
30.
Dear Mr. Laden:
The Board of Directors of Barracks Row
MainStreet would like to express gratitude
for the effort put forth by you and
your agency in the 8th Street
SE/Barracks Row streetscape project.
To date, the Department of Public
Works (DPW) has been proactive in
engaging the Capitol Hill community in
the public participation process, and
responsive to resident and commercial
concerns.
Over the past year, MainStreet has
encouraged DPW to maximize the public
investment by addressing and
improving as many cur rent and projected
transportation concerns as possible
within the scope of this streetscape
project. 8th Street SE serves as
Capitol Hill’s “Main Street” and stands
to develop as a major connection
between the Capitol and the water-
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To the Editor:
How many places in this world can you
run past the building where your government
can change the majority party
leadership overnight— more importantly,
do it peacefully?
Keep going around the corner and
down the steps, and you’ll watch 100
people organize chairs, set up stages,
wires, and microphones for an evening
concert rehearsal celebrating the holiday
on a back lawn the size of a football
field.
Go two more miles and not only will
you witness one of the largest concentrations
of Harley Davidson “Hog” riders
in the countr y, but be welcomed to
walk up and down “Thunder Alley.” To
me it was equivalent to a summer
night’s boardwalk trip that a child gets
to take one time each year before
preparing to dream about the next
trip—only in this case, instead of cotton
candy and prizes—it’s all biker
stuff.
Go two more miles past the thundering
engines, leather jackets, beards,
and shades, and you’ll find a tranquil
yet active location for urban crew members
and runners in this metro-Mecca
of freedom
Where else but DC, baby. It’s the
one place I know of to catch all of this
going on before 10 AM. You’ve got to
love this place, this urban setting with
a “Hill,” statues, memorials, monuments,
and some of the most interesting
and influential people in the world. I
hope your Memorial Day weekend was
as good as mine.
Next week, ten miles. What will I
see next?
PETER LORENZO
To the Editor:
Picked up a copy of the Voice at
Eastern Market on 5/30/01, home
delivery is sometimes spotty but that’s
another letter.
In the current issue an article titled
“Trash Talking” appeared. I think that
the article should be turned into a
monthly column highlighting the deeds
or misdeeds of individuals or groups in
the area on civic cleanliness.
One does not have to look to the DC
government and employees to find blatant
trashing of the Hill neighborhoods.
Let me cite a few examples.
The much ballyhooed renaissance of
8th Street: We can spend gazillions of
dollars improving the infrastructure and
streetscape, but can’t get the merchants
who want our business to do
basic trash pickup in front of
their businesses.
It’s not limited to the businesses.
Sasha Bruce has some prime property
that looks like hell and has trash build
Coming in July…
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class Protestant neighbors: roast
chicken on Sundays, Chesapeake
seafood when it was in season, overcooked
vegetables all the time, var ious
cuts of beef, lamb and pork
depending on the time of year (lamb
in the spring), and desserts descending
in elegance from pie a la mode to
rice pudding to canned peaches. On
Christmas and Thanksgiving we all
ate turkey, and at Easter we all ate
ham.
Children who didn’t clear their
plates got no desserts, and few were
inclined to ask for seconds of broccoli.
There were few fat adults and
no fat kids.
Some families ate better than others:
the almost rich ate lamb chops
and sirloins and calve’s liver; those
not as well off pork chops and Tbones
and beef liver. Instead of dousing
the meat and vegetables in high
calorie sauces we doused them in
ketchup, Worcestershire sauce—and
in our house, butter.
Butter for us was major, though it
was more expensive than oleo margerine,
which my mother wouldn’t
touch. She was, however, willing to
meet the American menu half way.
Hearing about peanut butter, she
assumed it was an acceptable substitute
for the real thing. We tried it
once and never again.
Food was plentiful and nourishing
but generally unexciting. Rolling
home in the autumn twilight, after
skating with Mary Haggerty around
Stanton Park, I would hope for codfish
cakes soaked with butter, but
knew in my heart that the odds were
in favor of macaroni soaked in
heavy, yellow, melted cheese.
The best food came from
Maryland: oysters and crabs and biscuits
—round, flat beaten dough—
and lightly breaded Maryland fried
chicken. In the summertime there
were beefsteak tomatoes and ears of
country gentleman corn, the premium
corn of the day.
I thought the small clutch of
We had apples and apple pie, and
asparagus (canned), bread and bread
pudding, cantaloupes, coleslaw, celery,
consommé and Coleman’s mustard,
donuts, eggs, eels and egg -
plants, fruitcake, French fries and
fricassee chicken, ginger, hash,
honey and horseradish, Irish stew,
jam, jelly, Jell-O, kale, lettuce (iceberg),
marshmallows, mincemeat,
marmalade, navy beans, North
Carolina Bar-B-Que, oatmeal,
peanuts, prunes, Philadelphia cream
cheese, pot pie, quinces, radishes,
rabbit, rhubarb, sauerbraten, sauerkraut,
squirrel, tongue, venison,
vanilla wafers, watercress, and yams.
We didn’t have artichokes, braised
goose, Bavarian crème, brioches,
boudins, coq au vin, curry, chocolate
mousse, crawfish bisque, deviled kidneys,
daube de mouton, Dijon mustard,
escargots, filet of sole, frangipani,
gnocchi, hasty pudding, jambalaya,
kippered herring, lobster
soup, Madeira cakes, marzipan,
Nicoise salade, ox tongue, osso
bucco, salmon steaks, quiche
Lorraine, ragouts, ratatouille, sea turtle
soup, spaghetti alla puttanesca,
turbot, truffles, ugli fruit, vichyssoise,
wild rice or zabaglione.
On any Friday in September in the
1930s, my mother, father, sister and I
had oysters fried in butter, Norfolk
style, Irish potato cake and hot tea
for supper. It was the best meal of
the week. We lathered the cake with
butter and removed the oyster’s foot,
that hard little round muscle on the
edge. If you ate it you were likely to
get appendicitis.
My Great Aunt Celina made boxtie,
an upscale version of potato
cake, which added raw, grated potatoes
to mashed ones. In both cases
the potatoes were kneaded with
flour and baked in a skillet. My
mother had no use for corned beef
and cabbage which she said had
never been seen in Connamara.
The rest of the week we ate the
same meals as our white, middle-
Convenience Foods
Housewives didn’t have to go far to
shop, sometimes no further than the
sidewalk.
The Chestnut Farms milkman and
the bread man from Holmes Bakery
delivered to the doorsteps. Fred
Libby, who lived with his aunt and
uncle across the street from me, was
a helper on a Holmes wagon and
spent the pale hours of the dawn
running up and down the street
delivering loaves of bread and
donuts.
Garden farmers from the
Maryland countryside drove their
horses and wagons up the street on
sunny afternoons praising their
wares. “Red to the rind and the
rind’s red too,” the watermelon man
sang—which, as everyone knew
from experience, was an exaggeration.
A Greek family with a huge green
truck displaying all manner of vegetables
on receding side shelves
came by once a week and the children
ran from house to house knoc king
on the doors, announcing their
arrival.
Miss Rosalie Walker sold eggs from
the family cottage in Washington
Grove to her neighbors for forty
cents a dozen.
Mr. Higgin, father of my friends
Woofie and Hootie, was an immigrant
from England who started his
own egg business in the early years
of the Depression. He bought them
wholesale and sold them door-todoor,
giving the housewives the
impression that they had been laid
by his own hens in Prince Georges
County. He later added plucked
chickens, and when a housewife
ordered a capon ahead of time he
converted a rooster with a single
swift slice of a knife.
Ice came from the iceman.
Housewives put the numbered card
he had given them in their front
windows with the number of
pounds desired—25, 50, 75 or 100—
at the top. He chopped a proper
chunk off the big block in the back
of his wagon with a knowing eye,
checked the weight on the scale dan -
gling from the back of the wagon
and grabbed the ice with a big pair
of iron tongs. He swung it on his
back, which was covered with a
square of black leather to keep him
from getting excessively wet, and
carried it to the kitchen and put it
into the big compartment on top of
the wooden icebox. When the
wagon was moving down the block,
small boys grabbed the scale and
rode with him until he turned and,
waving his horsewhip, chased them
off.
In the winter, to save the cost of
ice, we had small window boxes for
milk and eggs and other perishables
in daily use.
Italians, over on C Street NE, ate
tastier fare than the rest of us. The
Cinottis and other leading families
rolled their own pasta and served it
with meat balls and various mixtures
of red and white sauces. The less
affluent ate pasta fazoo—the familiar
name for pasta y fagioli, which substituted
beans for meat. Italian kids
wishing to insult other Italian kids
would say, “What’d you have for dinner,
pasta fazoo?” (The spelling of
‘fazoo’ is mine, from memory, not
reference book.)
The Jews who owned most of the
corner grocery stores, and lived
above them, shunned bacon and
shellfish but ate Kosher meats, pastrami
and corned beef, gefilte fish
and that central European version of
potato cake, latkes; mysterious dishes
that that made us feel deprived,
and were at least as enchanting as
spaghetti marinara.
Immigrant kids often tried to convert
their parents to American ways,
though this, to their embarrassment,
sometimes backfired. One day
Melvin Tolstoi asked his Russianborn
mother to put a chicken sandwich
in his lunch bag and when he
bit into the breast in the Easter n
High cafeteria he found that she
included the bones.
The black and brown people
(politely called the Colored by both
races), and many of the recent white
arrivals from the rural South, ate
chitlins and collard greens and
black-eyed peas and okra and fish
fresh from the Eastern Branch of the
Potomac.
When the shad came swimming
up the river in the spring everyone
who could get it ate shad and shad
roe. Traditionalists nailed the shad
to a wooden plank and stuck it
upright a few inches from an open
fire and left it there for a day or so,
which melted the multitude of
bones. The less meticulous baked it
in the oven.
G rowing up on Capitol Hill in the 1930s, eating wa s
n o u rishing, not gl a m o rous, and not a fo rm of re c reation.
From Pasta Fazooto
Gefilte Fish: A Histo ry of
Fo o d — C a p i tol Hill St yl e
BY TOM KELLY
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To Market to Market…
On Saturdays, housewives went to
Eastern Market to buy their Sunday
chickens and whatever else struck
their fancies.
The farmers and farmers’ wives
were ranged side by side along the
curb with their horses and wagons
tethered behind them and their produce
displayed on planks laid across
sawhorses—peaches in the spring,
tomatoes in the summer, apples in
the fall.
The horses, which outnumbered
trucks in the twenties and into the
thirties, quenched their thirst at a
horse trough, which looked like a big
green iron bathtub at the north end
of the market arcade.The farmers
washed their hands and sprinkled
their vegetables with the water from
a hand pump halfway down the row.
Inside the market, not a flower, a
croissant, a Central American
sausage or a slice of feta cheese could
be seen. The Glasgow’s sold seafood
and the butchers sold meat. All—the
Glasgow’s, the butchers, the seafood
and the meat—were from southern
Maryland or the Eastern Shore.
Whirling fans high up on the ceiling
kept the place pleasantly cool.
On Saturday mornings a couple of
hundred chickens, alive and squawking
in crates stacked one on top of
another, filled up a third of the market.
A housewife could pick the bird
she found appealing the same way a
seafood gourmet would pick a live
lobster from the tank at Hogate’s
restaurant on the waterfront. The
farmer would take the hen out of the
crate, wring its neck, and hand it
over.
The housewife would take it home
and she and her daughters would
pluck it bare. The big feathers came
out easily, but the pinfeathers,
tucked away deep in the lower part
of the chicken’s back, could drive
small girls to tears.
I was standing by the crates with
the stump of a pencil in my fist on a
Saturday morning in 1925 or 1926,
when I was two or three, and a
chicken stuck her head out and
grabbed the pencil, mistaking it, I
suppose, for a worm. I screamed at
the top of my lungs and my mother,
assuming the chicken had nipped
my finger, accused the chicken man
of harboring dangerous fowl. She
was embarrassed when she looked
more closely and found my finger
unscathed.
Besides Eastern Market, there were
many mom and pop markets and
several chain stores in the neighborhood
(supermarkets would not arrive
for a couple of decades).
The chain stores were compact,
even intimate by our standards. Each
Sanitary or A & P had a manager and
a meat cutter who waited directly on
the customers. Phil, the manager at
the Sanitary at 6th and C, NE, was a
frail looking man but a notable duck
pin bowler.
Their lower prices made it hard for
the corner stores to compete.
The mom and pop stores tried to
fight back, getting together in a buying
co-operative called the District
Grocery Stores, but their prices were
always a few cents higher than the
chains. They survived by letting the
less affluent customers run weekly
bills, buying daily, paying on Friday.
Each family had a tablet with its
name on the paper cover and mom
or pop would add each new purchase
to the list.
Still, Claggett’s butcher shop in
the 500 block and the general food
store in the 300 block of C Street,
NE, were driven out of business by
the chains in the 1930s.
Home Cooking
Year round, day in, day out, the overwhelming
majority of Hill families
ate their three daily meals at
home, where most of
our food was produced.
The
more dedicated
housewives
preserved
tomatoes
and
fruit in
mason
jars and
Mrs.
McCawley, a
widow who
lived with two of
her sons in the 200
block of Fifth Street, NE,
baked her own bread.
During Prohibition, we even
brewed at home. My father made
beer in the basement, the Italians
made red wine—which was vaguely
related to Chianti—and old
American Baptists like Amos
Holmes’ family, who lived in the 600
block of Massachusetts, made root
beer from sassafras roots they
bought at Eastern Market.
Both the newly bottled beer and
root beer were likely to explode during
the night, bringing joy to the
hearts of the young in their beds
upstairs.
School children from Peabody,
Hilton and Carberry, St. Joseph’s and
St. Peter’s came home for lunch—
and so did fathers who could manage
to do so. For most of us the only
non-resident dinner guests were relatives
from out of town or, among the
devout, the clergymen of their
choice.
In the summertime, small and
middle-sized boys ate lunch at what -
ever house they happened to be
near. If you had the good fortune to
find yourself in an Italian lady ’s
kitchen she would give you a plate of
spicy spaghetti in tomato sauce.
Amos’ s mother gave us chili. Mrs.
McCawley gave us homemade bread.
Dining out was rare. There were
only a handful of classy restaurants
in town and only the most exalted
families went to dinner at
O’Donnell’s or Hogate’s on the
waterfront, or downtown to Harvey’s
or the Occidental.
Charlie Soo, who lived a few
doors from us on the corner at 4th
and B Streets NE—the future
Constitution Avenue—had a restaurant
in Chinatown, which was then
on Pennsylvania Avenue at the western
foot of Capitol Hill. It offered all
the chop suey you could eat for a
dime. Chop suey, like corned beef
and cabbage, was not ethnically
authentic but it was filling.
Most Hill restaurants served only
the immediate neighborhoods and
were, after the repeal of
Prohibition, divided
between those that
sold beer and
those that did
not. Those that
sold beer were
also required
by law to
serve a full
menu and,
after I
passed my
eighteenth
birthday, I ate
many a liverwurst
sandwich
at Joe Boyle’s in the
600 block of
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Fred Libby and Bill Ryan occasionally
ate supper at the Villanova,
catty corner from Union Station,
from the thirties into the fifties.
A lot of dedicated beer drinkers
did their drinking at Shindler’s,
across from Eastern Market, but I
never heard of anyone going there
for dinner.
For twenty years or more, the two
Greek brothers who ran The Stanton
Grill, on C Street across from
Peabody School—they were too
close to the school to get a beer
license—served simple meat-andpotato
meals for reasonable prices to
middle-aged people who lived in
rooming houses and didn’t have a
kitchen, the young and unmar ried,
and older people that lived alone,
A small Italian restaurant over by
Union Station began selling take-out
pizza in the late 1930s.
People who found themselves
away from home at lunchtime ate at
drug store counters—Kresge’s at 7th
and Pennsylvania and People’s drug
stores all over. People’s sold mock
chicken salad made from veal, which
was cheap, instead of chicken,
which was not. The special on
Fridays was a tuna fish sandwich, pie
a la mode and a Coke, all for 25
cents.
I remember with joy the large
wooden sign in front of a middle
sized restaurant in the 100 block of C
Street Street, NE, which served the
lesser inhabitants of the Senate
Office Building. It was shaped like a
pair of eyeglasses and on it was
printed the boast: “Every Meal A
Spectacle.”
Simple Pleasures
There is something to be said for
Peking duck, suckling pig, bouillabaisse
and all the other elaborations,
but there is also something to be said
for the simpler victuals of long ago.
If you wish to believe that extra calories
always bring happiness, follow
the lobbyists on an afternoon as
they come out of the Capitol Grill
and see them huffing and puffing up
the Hill. That fellow’s hand-tailored
suit is not as concealing as he hoped
it would be.
There was a security in the old
semi-austerity—and an unjaded joy
in the occasional indulgence. Some
who have never experienced the
rewards of well-made meat loaf may
want, as an experiment, to try the
simplicities of the past.
You can easily re-create a Sunday
from the thirties: bacon and eggs
and hot rolls in the morning, roast
chicken with peas and mashed potatoes
for dinner at noon and cold lef tovers
for supper. After that the family
can sit around and listen to the rebroadcast
of old Jack Benny shows
on WAMU.
Those who find the experiment
rewarding can, now and then, add a
day: bacon and calves liver on a
Tuesday, perhaps, or down-to-earth
canned salmon cakes on a Wednesday
evening, followed by a walk over
to the Capitol to listen to the Marine
band play “Stars and Stripes
Forever.”
Or, unhitch your belt and go out
and sit on the front por ch, if you
have one, and watch the cars go by.
I would be willing to swap the
pleasure of rack of lamb for the
remembered joys of Norfolk oysters,
hot tea and a slice of Aunt Celina ’s
boxtie on a Friday night in
September. And after we washed and
dried the dishes I might even be willing
to sit down for a round of
Parcheesi in the parlor.
Journalist Tom Kelly, author of The
Imperial Post, has written for maga -
zines and newspapers in Washington
and Louisiana—where he met his wife,
Marguerite, who writes the “Family
Almanac” column for the Washington
Post.
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Thunderbird—a firm that made
archeological headlines in 1970
when they excavated a 12,000 yearold
Native-American settlement near
Front Royal.
Gardner and his team conducted
an assessment of the treasures the
Capper Project has been sitting on.
The preliminary findings were
uncovered after four, 10’ by 8’ “windows”
were carved into the ground.
The glimpse they provided into the
secret history of this neglected section
of our community was more
than enough to designate the site as
a number one, must do, excavation.
Then, nothing.
In the months that followed, a
tangled bureaucratic maze had to be
worked through. Convoluted federal,
DC and military regulations com -
bined to make the erection of the
Marine quarters—and the dig—a
lengthy, red tape process. The site
was covered-up and grassed over,
BY MAGGIE HALL
Lucky us!
We Capitol Hill residents are
going to have a new and
very special tourist attraction
to keep us amused this
summer. And we get to be the eager
sightseers. Any day now the deep
and dirty secrets of the original
Eastern Market will begin to be
revealed.
Soon to begin is the third phase of
the archeological excavation of the
grassy waste expanse to the south of
the Freeway, which is bordered by
5th and 7th Streets, L Street and
Virginia Avenue.
Until 18 months ago, this site was
taken up by one of the buildings of
the Arthur Capper public housing
project—and then it was sold to the
Marines, who plan to construct sorely
needed new bachelor quarters
once the land is cleared.
But first, military rules demand
that a basic archeological survey be
done. So before the high-rise apar tment
building was flattened, trenches
were dug for what was expected to
be a perfunctory examination.
No one had any thoughts of the
task being anything but routine in
nature. Nobody harbored fantasies
of finding long-hidden steps to the
past.
So it was a true, screaming alert
that went up when “interesting
looking stuff” was uncovered. DC’s
Historic Preservation Division hastened
to the southeast wasteland.
One look at what the workmen’s
picks and shovels had hit and it was
clear to the department’s archeologist,
Nancy Kassner, that something
very special was just waiting to be
brought back to life.
The archeological project was
immediately put into the hands of
Dr. Bill Gardner, who recently
retired, after 33 years, as Professor of
Anthropology at Catholic University.
Gardner is the founder of
Thanks to archeological phases I
and II, completed well over a year
ago, we already know that the market
was brick-built and was divided
into “stalls” by granite walls.
Photographs taken during the initial
phases provide dramatic teasers as to
what illuminating evidence of an
earlier Capitol Hill culture lies below
the ragweed and scruffy turf.
The already discovered remains lie
at various levels, from three to
eleven feet below the present surface.
When work gets underway it
will proceed in typical dig style. Fir st
the bulldozers will come in to clear
the topsoil. Then the manual work
with picks and shovels will take over.
Very quickly, as the treasure-sensitive
level is reached, those tools will
give way to trowels and then, finally,
brushes—for the delicately tedious
job of unearthing the precious
crumbs.
But just as important as the
uncovering of artifacts will be the
collecting of samples from the soil.
Lead archeologist, Dr. Gardner,
points out: “We just don’t know
what artifacts we’re going to find,
but the soil analyses will be vital. All
these years later we’ll be able to tell,
thanks to minute traces of pollen,
blood, seeds, and skin, what was sold
and where. The specialists handling
the soil analysis will be able to
extract an awful lot of information
from the samples…we should be able
to reconstruct what exactly was happening
in the market.”
From a multitude of spots, dirt,
earth, and waste will be carefully
scooped-up and bagged—in good
old Ziplocs—for analysis.
Archeologists will collect varying
amounts, from spoonfuls to spade
fulls, according to what hints, tips
and pointers they think the selected
flecks, dabs and patches of chosen
soil samples might hold.
Labeling will be pivotal to the outcome.
Precise information, in excruciating
detail, regarding the exact
awaiting the final word from all the
involved agencies.
Now, at last, the archeologists will
have their day—actually, their several
months. The clues they expect to
uncover will allow them to recon -
struct the daily life of the market,
which sold its first fruit and veggies
in 1806, and its last in 1879.
And we will be able to watch the
drama as it unfolds, for the fir st
thing that will happen is not a discovery
—but a construction. An
observation deck will be erected so
all the curious from the neighborhood
—and who knows from what
other exotic places—can follow the
excitement.
What is expected to emerge from
the excavation? Hopes are high that
the result will be a detailed and colorful
portrait of what the original
Eastern Market looked like; how the
inside of the market was set up; what
products were sold and where.
Can You
DIG
It?
Nibbling the Bones of the
O riginal East e rn Market
Left to right: Sign marking future home of USMC Bachelor Enlisted Quarters; Working shots of the Dig
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location each sample was taken from
will be necessary. For example,
something on the lines of: third stall
in second row; NE corner; three feet
from east wall, one foot from north
wall; six foot depth.
This information, it is hoped, will
allow Dr. Linda Scott Cummings,
1,500 miles away in Golden,
Colorado, to pass word back that
two centuries ago a grocer served his
customers flour, pickles, sugar, whatever,
from barrels or containers that
stood in the top right-hand corner of
his store.
Or that this was the site of the
fishmonger, selling crabs, mullet,
perch, sea bass and river trout, fresh
from the Chesapeake Bay and the
Potomac. And that oysters were piled
high in baskets at the entrance to his
stall.
Written records have already been
unearthed of the names of the
traders and which spaces they occupied,
but not what they traded in.
It’s now only a short but technically
fraught and expert step to finding
the missing links.
Dr. Scott Cummings’ company,
Paleo Research Institute, is the leader
when it comes to archeological DNA.
She and her team of anthropologists,
along with a geologist and a biologist,
will, via all the high-tech bells
and whistles of their scientific trade,
be able to determine what was on
sale in the market—from dried figs
to cabbages, squawking chickens to
hogs’ heads, wine to bread, and any
non-food sellers like cobblers and
iron mongers—and exactly whereabouts.
Scott Cummings is excited at the
thought of the stimulating challenge
coming her way from Capitol Hill.
“I’m really looking forward to helping
unravel the historic secrets of the
first Eastern Market,” she says.
Indeed, there’s more reason than
you might think for her excitement.
Most of those involved believe our
Eastern Market will be the fir st “original”
farmer’s market to be investigated
archeologically on the Eastern
Seaboard.
Nancy Kassner hesitates, minutely,
“We think this is a first.” But
whether it is or it isn’t, she says,
“There’s going to be some exciting
stuff discovered. We’re eager to get
into this site. We’ve found the foot-
At the End of the Day…
When the dust clears, the old Eastern Market site will become home to 332
single Marines. Construction of the 3-story quarters, a garage with room
for 273 cars, and a separate facility for band rehearsal space is due to begin
next April and should be completed by June 2003.
The price tag for the development, which will take pressure off the historic
barracks on 8th Street, SE, and end the unsatisfactory business of
young, enlisted Marines having to pay high rent for off-base accommodation,
is predicted to come in at $36 million.
Of benefit to the Capitol Hill community is the Marine’s plan to incorporate
a sports round, complete with floodlights and bleachers, into the
complex. It will be open to the public—though the Marines will have
dibs, using it for their own sporting activities and some exercise regimes.
As for the young men and women in uniform who will find welcome
“digs” in the new annex: they will always be reminded that they’re sleeping
atop history. It’s expected that a small exhibit of photos, taken during
the up-coming excavation excitement, will be a permanent reminder of
what went before.
The rest of the photos and artifacts will be given new and very exposed
life as a high-profile feature of the new City Museum, due to open in
March of next year.
The City Museum—a fancier name is being worked on—will be housed
downtown, in the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square. The entire
library space, previously used and occupied by UDC, will be given over to
exhibits.
The plan is to display portions and samples of the uncovered ruins and
artifacts. Anything that is found of the foundations, walls, floors, windows,
shelving, and doors will go into the collection, alongside any fragments
of pots, containers, barrels, tools and textiles. A model of the market,
based on all the findings of this summer’s dig, will also go on show. A
photo-gallery, tracking each stage of the excavation and its graphic unraveling
of the fascinating Eastern Market enigma, will be another big draw.
“This project is going to attract a lot of attention,” says city archeologist
Nancy Kassner. “It’s going to be wonderful to have the new museum in
which to display the findings.”
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Remarkably, the Eastern Market of today retains the same architectural and
social qualities it had when the building was completed nearly 130 years
ago, in 1873. It replaced a more temporary market structure on the same
print—now we’re going back to
uncover the whole body.”
The public shares her eagerness to
get cracking. Kassner says: “I bump
into people all the time who want to
know what we’ve found. I explain
there’s been a lot of hoops to go
through but that the results will be
well worth waiting for.”
(For those of you who have
thoughts of getting close-up and personal
by offering your services on
the dig, don’t get your hopes up. It’s
doubtful that volunteers will be
recruited to help with the painstaking
work—liability insurance for
accidents is just too pricey.)
Kassner expresses one regret with
the first round of excavation; a
house that everyone had high expectations
of uncovering, was gone.
Nothing remains of the “gentlemen’s
residence,” owned—according
to the records—by one Notley
Maddox. Nor have the bones of any
lesser dwellings been uncovered.
“There wasn’t a trace of it, or any
other houses,” says Ms. Kassner. “It
was a big disappointment. There
were no signs where we thought
they would be. Probably all the signs
have been disturbed and destroyed
by later construction.”
But the loss of the private homes
is undoubtedly going to be compensated
for by the Market’s “dig” bounty.
Gardner is chomping at the bit to
get started—and is certain that he’s
latched onto a first: “This is pretty
exciting,” he enthuses. “Nobody has
ever had a chance to look at such an
early ‘main street’ market in the eastern
Atlantic region before. We
checked with Boston, Providence,
Philadelphia, Charleston and other
cities—but nobody has found evidence
like we’ve got here.”
“We’re talking about a first urban
development. A bulk of the earliest
of DC’s history could lie here. It ’s
not Knossos,” he laughs, referring to
the famous 3,000 BC Minoan civilization
site of Crete, Greece. “But to
DC it’s just as important and relevant.”
Jim Omans, head of Natural
Resources Section of HQ Marine
Corps—who kept a keen eye on the
mandated archeological survey work
before the demolition wrecking-ball
got to work—couldn’t agree more.
His excitement is heightened by the
fact that when he ordered the survey
trenches dug he didn’t, for one second,
anticipate reaping anything of
historic or cultural value.
“We genuinely didn’t expect to hit
anything,” he recalls. “But we did—
big-time. It was a cool discovery,
especially as we found it only as par t
of a very routine survey of the building
site…I have to be honest, Eastern
Market meant nothing to me. It was
the name of a Metro stop, and that
was it. But not any more.”
The first Eastern Market, he continues,
“was the beginning, the hub,
the apex of shopping, for the middle
and working class, of the city. I have
this image of it as the seed of Giant
and Home Depot rolled into one. In
cultural terms, to hit a market archeologically
is so very exciting and fascinating.
It’s going to tell us so much
about what daily life in DC, 200
years ago, was like.”
Maggie Hall wrote about the Old Naval
Hospital in the May issue of the Voice
of the Hill
site that had been built in 1802, as part of Pierre L’Enfant’s desire to sprinkle
markets throughout the city for the convenience of both residents and sellers.
This vintage photograph shows produce vendors located outside the market
in mobile, temporary stalls. Those inside the market rented their space
from the city on a more permanent basis.
Eastern Market was designed by architect Adolph Cluss, a German immi -
grant who had come to Washington in about 1850. Interestingly, he spent
his early years here translating and promoting the work of his old friend,
Karl Marx.
Cluss, who came into the ar chitecture profession through his new friend,
notorious City Commissioner Alexander “Boss” Shepherd, obtained countless
municipal commissions throughout the city during the late 1860s and
into the 1870s. Shepherd developed and Cluss designed “Shepherd Row”
along Farragut Square, in which they both lived.
Their friendship diminished, however, when Cluss testified against
Shepherd at his Congressional corruption trial, comparing him to infamously
corrupt “Boss” Tweed of New York City. Although Shepherd was
never linked to any actual crimes, he spent the remainder of his life in isolation
in Mexico.
Paul Kelsey Williams is the proprietor of Kelsey & Associates, Inc., “The House
History People,” an architectural research and preservation firm based in the
District since 1995. Williams has also recently wrote a book on Dupont Circle for
Arcadia Press.
The “New” Eastern Market Circa 1900
BY PAUL KELSEY
The Marine Barracks Dig discovers a brick floor 4-feet down
This “new” market looks onto the site
of the Old Eastern Market.
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Some people really do go all out
for the outdoors. Consider J.K.
Homer’s method of entertaining al
fresco.
The garden at his home, just
around the corner from his flower
and gift shop, Through the
Grapevine, is paved in oversized
bricks on which stand resin pots
containing trees as well as flowering
plants. One holds a Johnny
Appleseed tree that will grow to 14
feet and is a descendant of the real
thing. Others feature Japanese ferns,
or cut-leaf maples under-planted
with cascading ivy. The pots allow
for what he calls, “vignette plantings.”
The stage shifts, depending on
the party theme.
J.K. wants his parties to be differ -
ent every time, “I don’t like predictability,”
he explains. There was
one with a Japanese theme, where
the patio was dotted with bamboo
pagodas and hundreds of paper
lanterns swayed in the breeze. The
neighbors’ flowering cherry tree provided
a bit of borrowed finery; it was
the end of the season and the blossoms
were just starting to fall, so all
evening, guests enjoyed a cascade of
flowers.
While his garden might be nudged
toward perfection, the one-time
caterer keeps the fare simple. J.K.
prefers a big propane gas grill to the
old Weber kettle. Charcoal, he
explains, is a lot more work, especially
if you’re on a tight schedule. One
of his favorite things is to soak whole
husks of corn in water for 15 minutes
and then throw them directly
on the grill to steam. The outside
turns black, but inside the corn is
crunchy “and delicious,” he says.
Another easy dish is to slice Italian
BY ANI TA ALT M A N
The workday is over, the sun is still
shining, there’s heat in the air, and
the porch light is on. That’s the signal
Anthony Pontorno and Joseph
Purdy give to friends and family that
it’s party time.
Knock on the door, ring the bell or
tip toe through their lush front for -
est to the side garden that wraps
around the house’s back; you’ll find
the hosts prepared. “I have 17 nieces
and nephews in the area and so I
always have to have food on hand,”
says Anthony. Their freezer is kept
filled with chicken and steak, ready
for the grill. The refrigerator is
packed with white wine and bubbly
beverages, fresh tomatoes and at
least six different cheeses, and the
cupboards are crowded with chips
and gourmet canned goods.
This is a minor league spread compared
to when the pair actually plan
festivities.
Anthony and Joe love to entertain
outdoors. They’re certainly not
alone. Because it’s summer, our pristine
Hill yards and decks are being
put to full use for everything from
drinks after work, to evening cookouts,
to all-out garden extravaganzas.
If Anthony and Joseph are your
hosts, you’ll be lucky. DC residents
all their lives, they now live in a
Northeast town house that dates to
the 1860s. Out back, in space that
once featured a sole willow oak, a
brick path winds through the splendid
double-lot with its series of garden
“rooms.” These fragrant pockets
of green flash with blooming flowers
and speak of lazy pleasures: the sundappled
deck, the fish pond and
fountain, the cedar hot tub for eight.
These spaces are enhanced by
numerous wall ornaments, statues,
and a sprawling pyracantha, covered
with little white lights, which climbs
the neighbors’ brick wall.
“The idea of the garden,” explains
Joseph, who does advertising for
Verizon and possesses the green
thumb, “was to make it private and
lush—without grass.”
Anthony, a hairdresser, is the
party planner and cook. Elegance is
his operative word. Consider his
favorite space to set dinner—under a
crystal chandelier that hangs from
that willow oak and twinkles, always
ready to party, from 7:30 PM until
midnight.
It’s a great space for a summer
fling. They’ve served sit-down dinners
for 20, buffets for 40 and cocktails
for 200. Theirs is the garden
that welcomes new members to the
Capitol Hill Garden Club the fir st
Sunday in October. It’s worth joining
just to be feted here. And no
matter who comes over, guests are
served on real china with silverware
and cloth napkins.
food is fresh and the space is heavenly.
Their shade garden belies its city
setting—step out into their cool,
green oasis and you don’t know
where you are. “It’s very decadent,”
says Joyce who met her husband at
the Department of Health and
Human Services, which is in walking
distance from their home.
More planning has been done creating
the garden than deciding what
to do with it when guests are invited.
“The first thing I do is panic. Then I
calm down and go into a cleaning
frenzy,” says Joyce.
Cleaning is necessary because they
use their entire house when the y
entertain. Dozens of candleholders
light the way from indoors to out,
and vases hold flowers from the
sunny front garden. The rear garden,
they tell me, is more visual than participatory.
Guests love the plastic
pink flamingos reminiscent of
Joyce’s childhood in Baltimore, the
varieties of hostas, and broken stone
decorations that grace the brick
walls all around. “We borrow the
walls from our neighbors,” says the
hostess.
She also borrows her menu from
such places as Costco, Fresh Fields,
Littieri and the Alexandria Pastry
Shop. “I can’t cook,” Joyce admits. In
the dead heat of the summer, guests
can step out front and pick ripe figs
from the tree for dessert.
If something must be prepared, it’s
very easy: maybe pasta with a
squeeze of lemon juice, fresh
Parmesan and lightly steamed pea
pods and broccoli.
Whether the setting is elaborate or
casual, everyone agrees that the food
should stay simple. It’s summertime,
bread very thin and toast it on the
grill, then serve it with pesto on the
top, sliced tomatoes and fresh
Parmesan. Or he’ll top the bread
with panzanella (recipe follows).
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop director,
Jeffery Watson, and Craig Haas,
an EPA scientist, also like to surprise
their guests, but their idea of entertaining
requires a lot less effort. For
them the big thing is lighting. In the
fishpond, colored oil candles float
among the lilies and lotus. They pull
out every candlestick in the house
and mass lights on the big glasstopped
table—which is always set
with colorful pottery pieces and
flowers they cut from their bushes
and vines. Dozens of potted plants
around the terrace change with the
seasons. Nothing yet towers,
although that is the plan.
Jeffery and Craig live in a true
urban space with houses all around
and neighbors that can look in at
the goings-on. What the onlookers
see is a pair who loves to throw parties.
“We don’t go to movies. We
don’t go out to dinner. We like to
have friends over,” says Jeffery.
Last summer their guests enjoyed
lots of variations on pesto, made
with basil from their garden. This
year the party theme will be mint
juleps—the main ingredient is
already growing like mad. For dessert
they’ll serve such sweets as strawberry
shortcake, homemade blueberry
ice cream and Grandma Watson’s
lemon sponge pies (recipe follows).
Over at the home of Joyce and
Floyd Jones, guests eat and drink
with paper or plastic. It’s a different
mindset, and the couple maintains
no one seems to care as long as the
drinks are cold and plentiful, the
D i n i n g al fresco
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Grandma Watson’s Lemon
Sponge Pie
Serves 6-8
1 scant cup sugar
3 tablespoons butter
2 egg yolks
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Beat together sugar, butter and egg
yolks. Add juice and rind of lemon.
Mix in flour and add milk. Fold in
egg whites. Pour into prepared pie
shell. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes,
then 350 degrees for 20-25
minutes or until done. Cool and
then chill before serving.
Pesto a la Genovese
(from Jeffery Watson)
2 cups (packed) fresh basil leaves
12 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon pine nuts
2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
113 teaspoons salt
14 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
12 cup extra virgin olive oil
In a food processor or blender, combine
basil, Parmesan cheese, pine
nuts, garlic, salt and pepper. Puree
until a coarse paste forms. With
machine on, slowly add oil. Use
pesto immediately or store in an airtight
container in the refrigerator up
to four days or freeze. Makes 112 cups. and cut into 14-inch dice
12 small red onion, peeled and cut
into 14-inch dice
34 cup fruity olive oil
12 cup red wine vinegar
1 to 2 tablespoons capers, drained
5 large basil leaves, coarsely chopped
Salt to taste
Mix all ingredients together except
the basil, salt and 12 cup of the olive
oil. Marinate at room temperature or
in the refrigerator for at least an
hour.
While the vegetables are marinating,
make the crostini. To do so, slice
one long baguette thinly on the bias
(about 12 -inch thick) and toast lightly
on both sides. You can also grill
the bread on both sides, but this
requires a watchful eye.
Taste vegetables for seasonings
and add salt to taste.
For each serving, drizzle fruity
olive oil on a luncheon size plate.
Arrange three crostini in a trefoil
pattern and spoon a mound of the
topping onto the center. Top with
basil just before serving.
and the living is lazy. Just light up
the grill, fill tubs with ice and put on
some great music.
They also agree on bugs. Everyone
is armed with citronella candles and
non-offensive spray ready for guests.
And weather? Anthony says it
best: “It’s irrelevant. We don’t melt.
You have to be flexible. And you
can’t worry about it.” Rainy outdoor
parties have included one July 4th
and a Garden Club shindig: “The
secret is to have a nice group of people.
Include everybody and everything
will work out well.”
Easy foods for summer
parties
Panzanella
Serves 4-6 as a first course
(from J.K. Homer)
2 tomatoes, peeled, seeded and cut
into 14-inch dice
2 cucumbers, peeled, halved, seeded
and cut into 14-inch dice
1 zucchini, peeled, halved, seeded
A dozen ideas for a perfect outdoor party:
1. Simplicity makes the whole affair easier for the host.
2. Fill large attractive tubs with plenty of ice, white wine and beer.
3. Plan your music before the guests arrive.
4. Prepare most, if not all, the food in advance.
5. It is elegant to use glass and cr ystal outside
6. On the other hand, it’s okay to use paper and plastic.
7. Think about the lighting—lots of candles are great.
8. Buy the best products to keep the bugs at bay.
9. Do something different each time to surprise your partiers.
10. Turn on your fountain. Let your guests feed the fish.
11. Invite interesting people.
12.Weather happens. Great guests will go with the flow and gladly take
the party indoors, bringing their crystal or plastic glasses with them.
Jeffery Watson and Craig Haas live in a true urban space with houses all around and
neighbors that can look in at the goings-on. What the onlookers see is a pair who
loves to throw parties.
The workday is over, the sun is still shining, there’s heat in the air, and the porch
light is on. That’s the signal Anthony Pontorno and Joseph Purdy give to friends and
family that it’s party time.
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Rice Salad
Serves 8
(from Anthony Pontorno)
2 cups of rice (Jasmine or basmati)
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped
2 cups defrosted frozen peas
10 baby carrots, chopped
12 cup black olives, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
6 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Prepare rice. Toast sesame seeds. Toss
everything together while rice is still
warm, and then chill. Serve at room
temperature. This is great with
grilled salmon.
Anita Altman wrote about favorite
rooms in the May issue of the Voice of
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BY BARBARA A. JOHNSON
I love dinner parties—the ones where
you sit down with good friends at a
table and slowly pass the eve n i n g
talking with lots of laughing; it’s like
poetry or a slow dance.
Last night, I pulled up a pew to my
dining room table. There were nine
of us for dinner, and five fit perfectly
along its seven-foot length. There is
a history and a story to tell about
this pew, Number 19, and how it
came to my dining room.
I grew up in a Polish community
in rural, central Wisconsin and my
family attended St. Hedwig’s
Catholic church. My town was tiny.
Catholics either attended St.
Bernard’s church in town or St.
Hedwig’s two miles out in the country.
St. Hedwig’s was a beautiful old
building built in 1889; my mother,
who was born in 1905, often talked
about coming to church as a girl in a
horse and buggy and how cold it was
in winter and how much snow there
was.
The ch u rch sits up on a slight ri s e
s u rrounded by tall pine trees and th e
c e m et e ry. I know almost eve ry family
in that cemet e ry where now my
m other and father lie next to my
m oth e r’s parents. There are places in
town up on a hill that if you look east
you can see the ch u rch with its long
steeple alone above the hori z o n .
In 1977, the diocese made a decision,
based on finances and not on
the pleading voices of the faithful St.
Hedwig’s congregants, to close the
church and merge the parish with
St. Bernard’s.
My mother was heartbroken and
could not speak of it without crying;
our family had grown up in that
church where we marched in long
processions and where we ceremoniously
were released from original sin,
received the body of Christ, became
soldiers in the army of Christ, and
solemnly pledged to join with
another for the rest of our lives. This
was where my dad’s beautiful tenor
voice rang out from the choir high
above the back of the church touching
all of us as he sang, solo, Ave
Maria Gracia Plena!
Today I can so easily hear the
voices in Polish saying the prayers of
the rosary together…Swienta Maria
Matka Bozia…Holy Mary Mother of
God…and see the babushkaed
women at funerals, singing those
slow sad Polish dirges which I would
then hum at home, making my
mother either smile or cry as we did
the dishes.
Church ceremonies then seemed
very elaborate and frequent; processions
were formed, and candles and
incense lit without hesitation. The
priest in majestic robes held away by
altar boys on each side would fly up
and down that long aisle flinging
holy water first this way and that as
we stood hoping to catch a drop.
I can see us all there in the pew—
me and my sister and brothers with
my mom; I can smell the candle wax
and incense wafting by. I can feel the
smooth oak of the pew, how the
kneeler hurt because it was so hard,
and the snapping on my fingers of
the clasp for men’s hats. When I was
little, and my dad was singing, I
stood on the kneeler and turned
around with my arms along the back
of the pew in front of us to look up
in the choir hoping to see him.
When the church was closing they
had an auction. My mom went with
requests from her children for
stained glass windows and pews—
maybe even the one we usually sat
in. Mom came through. My sister
and brother took pews to their near
and distant homes and integrated
them into their lives. My sister from
Colorado fit hers into her sunroom
where she and her family sit and
enjoy the mountain views and their
morning cereal. Hers is #45, our family
pew. My brother and his former
wife had theirs in their den. For 23
years my pew stayed in my mom’s
garage, covered with old bedspreads
and blankets for protection. It was a
place for her garden paraphernalia,
pails, saved paper bags and other
garage stuff. She rarely asked me
about it after a while.
Mom died just over a year ago and
we siblings met to divide the rem -
nants of our childhood home, of her
life. So many of our mother’s things
seemed to expect her presence—her
nightgowns, her gloves which still
seemed to hold her hands, rosaries
put in this drawer and that pocket
for easy access, and handkerchiefs
with borders that she hand crocheted.
So many things I wanted to
take back with me.
I decided that I wasn’t going to
take my pew back to Capitol Hill. I
was already shipping back more
than my small townhouse could
hold. Besides, I thought, I didn’t
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When I got back to Washington
that decision was still on my mind. I
paced my house searching for a place
to put my pew. Friends urged,
“You’ll find a place. Your mom saved
it for you. She took care of it for
you.”
I asked my brother to send it here.
The deliverymen lifted the pew off
the back of their truck. Speaking
softly, smiling, they carried it almost
reverentially into my home, setting
it down in the dining room. It
looked exactly as it had in mom’s
garage: cobwebs clung to the undersides,
garden dust and little bits of
long dried-out herbs and flowers
were embedded in the corners and
in the prayer book rack on the bac k.
There was candle wax on the back of
the seat. I vowed I would never clean
it entirely.
My friends were very excited to
come over last night. One brought
her cipinni recipe and came early to
help me cook. The rest ar rived bringing
flowers, wine, a basket of appetizers
and their joy.
The table looked very fine in sof t
white linen, white candles, and my
mother’s off–white dishes with their
small flowers and the gold trim
along the edges. I looked around the
room and it was perfect. Faces were
bathed in soft candlelight, and
music mingled with the conversation.
A guest raised a glass, “To your
mom, Barbara,” and then “To mom”
we all chimed in. And we laughed.
Last night was the first time we
figured that the pew was filled with
people since it last held the faithful
attending St. Hedwig’s. I think that
those supplicants and my dinner
guests are not so different.
They, as we, gathered together for
community, to celebrate the time
together. They raised their hearts in
prayer. For all of us, the unity we
shared over food, over communion,
opens our hearts and our spirits are
nurtured; surely this is like prayer.
St. Hedwig’s church, all dark and
boarded up now, gathered the faithful.
It’s spring in Washington now. I
watch my garden fill with lavender,
basil and rosemary; soon the blossoms
of clematis. I watch my dining
room, all bright with light, gather
my friends.
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thing like, “I am worthy of you”).
Now take her to an early movie and
buy her a big bucket of popcorn to
tide her over until dinner.
After the movie, you go up to the
lockers in the waiting area by the
train platforms, where you retrieve
the picnic basket (or one of those
handy picnic backpacks that features
a built-in wine cooler) that you
stashed before you met her at the
Metro.
Taking her by the hand, whisk her
across Massachusetts Avenue toward
the Capitol, to the corner of D Street,
NE and Louisiana Avenue (diagonally
across from the Teamster’s building).
There you’ll find a lovely pool
and up the marble steps, a gorgeous
fountain that features an everchanging
display of colored lights in
the evenings. With such pretty vistas
all around, you cannot fail to
impress Miss Hip.
What to put in the basket? Put
your faith in the kindness of the various
purveyors at Eastern Market. A
sympathetic Tess at Bowers Dairy
will surely provide you with the perfect
selection of picnic cheeses,
while Mr. Pak can set you up with
juicy grapes and succulent strawberries.
Add some corn tamales or cold
salmon for panache, and don’t forget
plates, cups, utensils,
corkscrews—and that picnic blanket.
You’re on your own for the next
date, but if you’ve done this one
well, you should be snuggling at
your place with a pizza from Al’s and
the latest romantic comedy on
video.
Sunday in the Park With…
If you like a brisk workout before
chowing down, the Hill’s premier
picnic spot is the newly-revamped
Garfield Park, at 3rd Street and South
Carolina Avenue, SE. With the tennis
courts resurfaced, new volleyball
courts, basketball courts, a place to
fling horseshoes and a completely
new—and totally cool—playground,
this is a perfect hangout for both
families and singles.
Adults can hit the courts in the
late afternoon before wilting under
the trees with a cold drink, while
kids can go wild in the play area. The
swings and chutes and ladders and
such are located, thankfully, in the
shade, and are sure to delight even
the most jaded ten-year old.
Lincoln Park, is also eminently
rompable and picnicable. New playgrounds
are being installed even as
this is being written, and dogs and
Frisbees are always welcome.
Recently, families around the area
have been informally meeting on
Thursday evenings for picnics in the
park, and the Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop will be reviving their
“Arts in the Park” programs on seven
Friday evenings between July 6th
pita bread and a cold drink (a drop
of chilled Ouzo might hit the spot)
and you have created your own little
piece of Hellenic heaven on the east
lawn of the Capitol.
With so many noon concerts
ahead, you may want to start keeping
a picnic blanket in the bottom
drawer of your desk, right next to
that bottle of Ouzo.
Dinner and a Movie for Two
There’s nothing worse than trying to
come up with another twist on dinner
and a movie when you start dating
someone new. Maybe she’s a hip
chick who lives in Dupont Circle
and you want to show her that
you’re more than just the ordinary
Hill geek. Here’s the plan:
Meet her at the top of the Metro
escalators at Union Station, outside
by the flower stand, at 7 o’clock.
Give her a perfect white rose—it’s
less threatening than a red one (and
to the Victorians signified someitary
band concerts on the West
Lawn of the Capitol nearly every
weeknight during the summer, so
you’ll have ample opportunity for
patriotic-style picnics.
Mediterranean Mezze at
the Millennium Stage
The Kennedy Center actually brings
music to the Hill every Tuesday and
Thursday during the summer for
lunchtime concerts on their traveling
Millennium Stage. It’s a terrific
excuse to get out of the office and
lounge lethargically under a tree for
an hour while butterflies flit through
the black-eyed Susan’s.
Don’t fight the Mediterranean
heat; make the most of the mood by
heading over to the car ryout counter
downstairs at Taverna, the luscious
Greek restaurant at 305 Pennsylvania
Avenue, SE. Here you’ll find
hummus, creamy feta cheese and
olives, as well as what could be the
best tzatziki on the planet. Add some
BY KRISTEN HART K E
Boasting more parks per capita,
Washington is the greenest of all
North American cities. L’Enfant
must have enjoyed dining al fresco,
because Capitol Hill certainly
abounds with green spaces perfect
for picnicking and frolicking—and
many of these spots even offer a little
night music or other entertainment.
With a long summer stretching
ahead, you can pack a different
picnic for virtually every day of the
week—a good way to perk up those
dog days of August, never mind July.
It’s also a good way to perk up the
dog—but please keep him off my
picnic blanket.
Let us say, up front, that alcohol is
not a welcome commodity on
National Park property (on which
most of our local parks are located),
so any following mention of chilled
champagne or frosty margaritas is—
of course—meant to refer to the
non-alcoholic varieties. Far be it
from us to get any of you in trouble
with the park rangers.
A Five-Course Fourth
at the Capitol
Our picnic season truly begins with
the nationally televised Fourth of
July concert on the Mall, which suburbanites
flock to each year on
crowded Metro trains. We just walk.
(In fact, some of us don’t even take a
picnic down there—we just head out
at dusk with paper cups of wine,
watch the fireworks, then turn our
feet back toward home.)
However, a Fourth of July picnic
really can be a stellar event.
Consider a red-white-and-blue
theme for your meal, such as blue
corn tortilla chips with blue crab
dip, a red cabbage and blueber ry
slaw tossed with white wine
vinaigrette, star-shaped pasta salad
with fresh mozzarella and sweet
grape tomatoes, and warm tortillas
to be filled with pulled barbecued
chicken and grilled sweet red and
purple (they sort of look blue) bell
peppers. Top it all off just before the
fireworks begin with individual raspberry
tarts topped with whipped
cream and blueberries.
If you’re feeling particularly ambitious,
pack some frosty strawberry
daiquiris on ice, which could also be
topped with whipped cream and
blueberries.
Unfurl your blanket on either the
Senate or House side of the Capitol
building, where you’ll find fewer
tourists (who tend to crowd down
near the television cameras), and
you’ll be perfectly set up for listening
to the NSO and marveling at the latest
pyrotechnic display.
By the way, if you don’t make it for
the Fourth, there are going to be mil-
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of
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Waterlilies, Waterbugs and
Watermelon
Like the Arboretum, the Kenilworth
Aquatic Gardens are located just
minutes away from home—but a
visit is like a trip to another world.
Open daily from 7 AM to 4 PM,
the 14-acre Aquatic Gardens (with
their additional 70 acres of protected
wetlands) have an amazing display
of waterlilies and lotus flowers, as
well as an enormous abundance of
things that buzz, croak, flutter or
just blink their eyes lazily in the sun.
Both kids and adults linger capti -
vated at the edges of the ponds,
looking for tiny green frogs among
the lily pads or admiring the brilliant
wings of a hovering dragonfly.
There are lovely shaded areas
here—with picnic tables, so you
won’t need the blanket (unless you
want to snooze after lunch). Kids
would get a giggle out of a waterthemed
lunch basket filled with
water crackers, icy cold watermelon,
water-packed tuna in lily-pad lettuce
cups, and maybe some gooey chocolate
cupcakes topped with gummy
water snakes. Oh—and, uh, water.
The biggest event of the summer is
the Waterlily Festival, which the
National Parks Service says will be
July 28th from 11 AM until 2 PM this
year. Amateur photographers should
check in now with the Aquatic
Gardens to get information about
the Waterlily Photo Contest; winning
photographs traditionally go
on display at the Festival.
The Aquatic Gardens features
occasional Moonlight Tours, similar
to those at the Arboretum, and offers
some children’s programs. You can
also call 202/426-6905 to arrange a
tour with a Park Ranger, or check the
website, http://www.nps.gov/kepa,
to see if there are any upcoming special
events.
And Finally…
The best picnic of all is probably the
one that has gone unmentioned—
the Impromptu Picnic. Sometimes
there’s no time to plan, just an urge
to get out into the g reat outdoors, so
you can feel the grass tickling your
toes while you watch the Maryland
traffic rumble by. All you really need
for a good picnic is a jug of (nonalcoholic)
wine, a loaf of bread, and
maybe a sign that reads, “If you lived
here, you’d be picnicking by now!”
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water, as well as an assortment of
muffins, croissants, fresh fruit, and
other brunch treats—though true
naturalists will want to leave room
for binoculars, a camera, a notebook
and pens.
Working up an appetite will be
easy; there are some 446 acres of
daylilies, hibiscus, meadow and
prairie wildflowers, roses, and other
blooming plants (you can
check the website,
www.usna.usda.gov, for the peak
bloom times of your favorites).
When you’ve wilted, a fine spot
for brunch is near the Capitol
Columns—these are the actual
columns that graced the original
Capitol building before it was
expanded. Set rather gracefully on a
hillside near the herb gardens, with
reflecting pools and fountains
adding to the enchantment, the
columns are like a little piece of the
Hill in the Arboretum.
Be sure to check with the
Arboretum (202/245-2726) about
special events, such as Daylily Day
on June 23rd, and the Daylily
Collection Tour on June 30th. (They
also offer a dazzling, and very popu -
lar, Full Moon Hike each month,
from 9 to 11PM. You’ll need a reservation
for this!)
and August 17th from 5 to 6:30 PM.
Our pocket parks offer pleasures
too. Stop by Hayden’s Liquors and
check in with owner Tom Bowes to
see if he and any of his musician
friends will be doing more outdoor
evening concerts in the little triangular
park (sometimes called “little
Turtle Park” because it has the same
concrete turtles found in Marion
Park) that lies directly across
Independence Avenue from
Hayden’s. This is an ideal picnic
spot, anyway, since there are a wide
variety of take-out places nearby,
and you can always nip across to
Hayden’s for a cold beer.
Backpacking Brunch Amid
the Biennials
Head 2.2 miles from the Capitol,
down Bladensburg Road to New York
Avenue, NE, and you’ll find yourself
slightly off the Hill in the wilds of
the National Arboretum.A true garden
of earthy delights, the
Arboretum abounds with trees,
shrubs, bonsai, flora, fauna, and koi.
On a hot summer day, we’d suggest
getting there close to the
Arboretum’s 8 AM opening time;
each person’s backpack should be
well-stocked with bottles of cold
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nothing about restaurants. He got
involved with them the way he has
done so much else in his career buying,
renovating, and selling real
estate on Capitol Hill. In his words,
“I just winged it.”
Trattoria Alberto, Ellington’s on
8th, Anatolia, the Banana Café,
Mickey’s Patio, and the Little Pub all
owe their presence on the Hill to
Herb’s enthusiasm and to his uncanny
ability to learn as he goes. Herb
developed each of these places as
restaurants before leasing them to
their current owners, “I found I did
better at leasing them than running
them,” he says.
Over linguini and seafood at
Trattoria Alberto on Eighth
Street, SE, Herb talks about how
the real estate ventures that he
at first treated “like a hobby”
turned into a profitable career.
Fresh out of two years in the
army, Herb came back to DC
(which he had loved while
studying at Georgetown
University) and took a job with
RCA. He bought a house on
Massachusetts Avenue, NE,
began fixing it up, and enjoyed
the process so much that he
began looking around for other
properties to work on.
In 1968 he bought the
Trattoria Alberto building. “I
was buying more than I could
afford,” Herb says. “I was stone
broke.” But his subcontractors trusted
him and work went on. Way
overextended in terms of both time
and money, Herb went through a
period when he would “run into
work at RCA with plaster dust on my
suit.” Eventually it dawned on him
that he was having more fun and
doing better with his hobby than
with his job, so he quit work downtown
and turned to renovation full
time.
His first restaurant opened in 1971
as the Capitol Hill Town House (it
would later become Trattoria
Alberto), and he received an award
from the Capitol Hill Restoration
Society for his sensitive renovation
of the building that same year.
“I knew nothing about restaurants,”
Herb says. “I had never been
in a commercial kitchen.” But he
found a compatible German chef,
got lots of help from real estate
agents like Beau Bogan and somehow
made it work, along the way
learning enough about cooking that
“I didn’t have to close if the chef was
sick.”
Herb, a charming man with a
slight resemblance to Paul Newman,
says his life has been “a series of
chances,” by which he means he’s
been lucky. If you listen carefully,
you can detect a faint hint that
Herb’s English is not native. He
came to the United States as an 11-
year-old from Linz, Austria. His parents
had divorced and his mother
married an American and brought
him with her to St. Louis.
Did he speak English? “No, I
didn’t. And there was none of this
bilingual stuff then,” Herb remembers.
“For the first two weeks they
put me in first grade with the little
kids. I could hardly fit on the
chairs.” Herb remembers the experience
as a good one, though.
“Everybody took a real interest in
helping me along.” He worked his
way quickly through the grades and
by the time he was in high school
his English was excellent and he was
involved in “everything.”
A desire to study international
relations brought Herb to Georgetown
for college. He was in ROTC
there and after graduation spent two
years as an army officer in Germany.
It was his first time back in Europe
since childhood. “I knew the language
so I was the one who always
went to get the GIs out of jail,” he
says with a wry laugh.
Those were good years but,
nonetheless, Herb realized that the
army “wasn’t for me.” When his
commitment was up, he headed
back to Washington. Friends lured
him to the Hill and thus began his
career in buying and selling real
estate.
For the moment, Herb has no big
renovation projects on the horizon
—though he recently completed
an office building on M Street near
the Navy Yard that he says, “turned
out nice,” and is rented to an
Internet company, AllAfrica.com.
With his 60th bir thday approaching,
Herb is pulling back a bit. He
and his partner, Cliff Kibble, have a
house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
where they spend about two weeks
in every month. They dabble in real
estate down there because “if it ’s in
your blood, you just do.”
Lately, Herb has turned his atten -
tion from making money to giving it
away. Actually, making money was
never really his goal, Herb says. He
lives well but, as he puts it, “I don ’t
have big demands.” Recently, planning
a skiing vacation in Europe,
Herb considered flying first class.
Winging it
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H e r b Le h n e r
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children, which he encouraged.
Herb loves kids. He and Cliff have
helped raise Cliff’s ten-year-old
nephew, Andre Kibble, and he is
close to his sisters and their children
in Austria. He skis in the Alps near
Innsbruck with his sister’s kids and
at Ski Liberty in Pennsylvania with
Andre.
Finishing his coffee,Herb reflects
that the best thing about giving a
portion of his income to the
Foundation is that, “I like to see it
doing good while I’m alive.”
After all,” he adds with his charming
grin, “you can’t take it with
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he thought it was “ridiculous” and
decided he wouldn’t do it.
For years, Herb says, it had been in
the back of his mind that he would
like to give something back to the
community that had brought him
such success. “I thought some day
I’ll set up a foundation,” he says. But
that turned out to be more complicated
than he had anticipated, a
process with more red tape than he
wanted to get into. “I never
dreamed that it would be a problem
giving money away,” he says.
Then Herb became aware of the
CHAMPS Community Foundation,
which raises funds from businesses
and residents on the Hill and distributes
them, via small grants, to
groups of all kinds that work to
enhance life on the Hill in a wide
variety of ways.
Herb was impressed by the fact
that CHAMPS gives out 100% of the
money it raises in the community
back to the community. The considerable
work of the Foundation is
done entirely by volunteers. The
Capitol Hill Association of
Merchants and Professionals, which
originally launched the Foundation,
covers the group’s small administrative
costs, postage and other incidental
expenses.
After discussing his desires with
Foundation president Nicky Cymrot
and Board member Rick Halberstein,
Herb decided to assign the income
from one of his buildings to the
Foundation.
This spring the CHAMPS
Community Foundation made five
awards with the money Herb donat -
ed. “Lehner Grants” totaling
$15,000 were given to The Atlas
Theater Project, which will bring acting
classes and theater productions
to children at 11th and H Streets, NE,
through a partnership with Douglas
Memorial United Methodist Church;
to a group of neighbors landscaping
the field at the closed Kingsman
Elementary School; to the tutoring
program at the Neighborhood
Learning Center; to the Friends of
the Northeast Library for a computer
in the children’s room; and to the
Resident Council of Arthur Capper
for support of its summer program
for children.
Herb is delighted with the range
of the gifts and with their focus on
They Give Grants
This spring the CHAMPS Community Foundation made grants to the following groups:
Food & Friends for at-home meals for Hill residents living with HIV and AIDS
Erika Thimey Dance & Theater Co., Inc. for a new company brochure
St Mark’s Players for purchase of lighting and sound equipment
Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington, D.C. for renting and tuning a concert grand piano for their spring concer t
Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery for a new entrance sign and landscaping
Trees for Capitol Hill for street trees and for the maintenance of some of the neighborhoods many “triangle” parks
Gingko Gardens to help pay for weeding and mulching the beds and trees along Pennsylvania Avenue
The Computer Corner for a mural and as a contribution to a kitchen at the site
The Shakespeare Theatre Southeast Project which gives neighborhood teens an opportunity to learn about theater
both by seeing plays and by creating them and per forming
Watkins Elementary school for the Urban Living Schoolyard Project, weather predicting instruments for science
class, and for the Journalism club
Eastern High School Choir for the scholarship program
Crime Stoppers Clubs for t-shirts given at the year-end ceremony
Sustainable Community Initiatives/Carrollsburg Dwellings Residents Council for purchase and maintenance of basic
computer systems for the Carrollsburg/Arthur Capper community room
Rosetta Brooks for dance lessons for children at Brent School
National Maritime Heritage Foundation for an educational program for a Capitol Hill School relating to sailing and
the waterfront
E Street Studio for free after school art classes for children at Potomac Gardens
Peabody Gardencommittee for a project at Peabody Elementary School
Parents and Community for “Action” Association for a career mentoring program
College Bound for support of ongoing mentoring program
Friends of Tyler School for support of ongoing tutoring program for children from Potomac Gardens and Hopkins
public housing
The Higher Achievement Program (HAP), for summer enrichment classes in collaboration with the Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop
SummerTime and Reading Together (START) for part-time staffing of neighborhood summer reading program
Capitol Hill Group Ministr y for contribution to job readiness prog ram
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop for Arts in the Park, summer performances in Lincoln Park
Capitol Hill Children’s Baseball League for a pitching machine
Hine Basketball Day Camp for purchase of equipment.
These grants total over $33,000 and all benefit children and families, men and women, who live and work on
Capitol Hill. For more information about the CHAMPS Community Foundation and its grants program, please call
Stephanie Deutsch at 202-547-8624 or Nicky Cymrot at 202-544-3228.
V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
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The 2001 Arnold Keller Jr. Grant of $10,000 was presented to KidSafe to expand
summer programs.
Special Grants of $1,000 were presented to the Capitol Hill Area Food Bank in
honor of Lois Kauffman; Watkins School and Payne School in honor of Will Hill;
and the Capitol Hill Baseball and Softball League in honor of Phyllis Jane Young.
Four inaugural Lehner Grants were presented to the North Lincoln Par k
Neighborhood Association, Neighborhood Learning Center, Friends of the
Northeast Library, and Arthur Capper Summer of Fun Camp.
Thanks to the Reverend Paul Abernathy, Richard Kuhta, Gary Abrecht, Eda
Kauffman and Don Denton for their participation in the program. The 18th
Annual Capitol Hill Community Achievement Awards Dinner raised $60,000 to
support community projects in the arts, education, beautification and social welfare.
T h e CHAMPS Community Foundation
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Dear Judith:
I bought a row house on Capitol Hill three years
ago.It has an original tin roof andI was told by the
inspector that if I painted it every two years it would
continue to last indefinitely. I know they use a
fibrous plasticized paint. My brother, who used to
be a contractor, asked: “When will the accumulated
weight of the paint do-in the roof?”
That was a question that got me thinking: Why
isn’t the weight a problem?
TINA TYPE
Dear Tina:
Let’s begin with “tin.” Our old roofs are not tin.
Tin is an element long used in plating and may
well be the plating on your metal roof. The sheets,
however, are probably steel, with a tin or terne (an
alloy of zinc and tin) coating to allow the steel pans
to be soldered. Metal roofs can also be sheet copper
or lead, copper with lead coating, stainless steel
with lead or terne coating, and various other combinations.
Most of our roofs, which are not at all exotic, are
steel with a plated coating. You can recognize original
metal roofs because the sheets are very short.
While today a metal roof is likely to be sheet steel
with a terne coating that comes on a roll many feet
long, in the late 19 th century roofing came as
pieces about 16-inches wide and only a couple of
feet long.
Indeed, your inspector was right. If you keep your
old metal roof coated properly it should last more
or less indefinitely. The row of six houses, built in
1877, of which my house is one, includes one
intact, apparently original roof. A hundred and
twenty three years and counting seems like a pretty
good life to me.
(Most other roofing choices have life expectancies
of about twenty years. Of the thirteen houses
on our side of the street, five have residents who
have been there twenty years or longer, so it is not
so unusual to stay in a house long enough to look at
several replacements of those twenty-year roofs. I
always recommend metal roofs to homeowners so
they will never have to reroof again—though, naturally,
installing a s tanding seam metal roof is more
expensive than the twenty-year choices…)
What constitutes a proper coating? First, what
does not constitute a proper coating: “ro o f i n g
cement,” or any asphaltic or bituminous coating.
These are usually black, are the stuff your basic roof
guy has in his truck, and are death to metal roofs.
They trap moisture and the steel roof rusts out
below them. When you have a leak, do not allow
some guy up there with his bucket of black goo and
a brush! Call a trustworthy roofer who will repair
the roof with solder, metal patches, or other material
appropriate to a metal roof.
Follansbee Steel, the pre-eminent manufacturer
of steel roofs, recommends painting with their own
proprietary paint system, called Rapidri, a waterbased
acr ylic metal roof paint that can be applied
with brush, roller or power spray.
We have used a linseed oil based paint called Tino-
lin. This stuff dries very slowly, seeming to consist
almost entirely of linseed oil.
Whichever you choose, this is work that should
be performed when the surface and air temperature
is between 50 and 90 degrees, which usually means
not in the dead of winter or the middle of summer.
Now would be good.
Regardless of coating material, your roof must be
clean and free of chalk; the powdery surface deposit
paint gets as it weathers. Since so many of our roofs
have low slopes, cleaning the roof is pretty easy. It
can be done with a power wash or a stiff bristle
brush and a TSP (Tri-sodium phosphate) and water
solution. After cleaning, the roof needs a good rinsing.
Prior to coating, check for rust. Anywhere you see
rust on your roof, or the steel beams supporting
your central air conditioner’s condensing unit,
remove the loose stuff with a wire brush then coat
all of those spots with a rust converter.
Clearly, none of this is rocket science, so if you
like to court skin cancer, do this roof work yourself
—it’s a great way to get a jump on your summer
tan or extend the summer tan into the fall. If you
hire someone to do the job, insist on good prepar ation.
How often should you coat your roof? I disagree
with your inspector about coating every two years.
Follansbee Steel suggests recoating when the finish
shows wear—or every eight years.
So recoat your roof when it needs it. How will you
know? Naturally, you will go up there every once in
a while and take a look. If you can see areas where
the coating has worn thin and the roof looks a little
rusty, you need to recoat.
O r, here ’s the brilliant solution Gre g o ry
Cavanaugh used for our roof: every other time you
coat, change color. Tin-o-lin is available in red and
in gray. So, if your roof is red, when it seems to be
wearing thin, coat it in gray. Then, when you start
to see the red through the gray, you know it is time
to recoat, this time in red.
I wouldn’t worry about the build-up of weight of
these coatings. As you can see from the above, the
paint is basically wearing or washing away between
coatings.
Consider yourself fortunate to have your original
roof. Treasure it, care for it, and feel superior knowing
a piece of history is keeping the rain off!
Dear Judith:
Do I have any alternative to heating and cooling
with electricity, gas, or oil?
JUST CURIOUS
Dear Curious:
You do have a few rather exotic alternatives such as
photovoltaics or other active solar options, but the
most tested technology that I know of to reduce
energy use the most dramatically is the ground
source heat pump. This heat pump uses the earth,
with its consistent temperature of 50-55 degrees,
both as a place to dump excess heat in the summer
and to acquire heat in the winter.
The nature of any heat pump is that it uses the
p hysics of state change to move energy (th i n k
heat). In the summer, you are shifting the heat
energy from the inside of the house to the outside.
In the winter, you are actually moving heat from
the outdoors to the inside.
However, the efficiency of the process is compromised
when you are trying to capture the heat present
in 35-degree air in the winter or to shed heat
into the 95-degree air in the summer.
You see where that constant 50-55 degree ear th
temperature comes in. There is more heat there to
be captured in the winter than on our coldest days
and much more capacity to absorb heat energy during
the cooling season. The practical application
involves sinking a series of 200-foot deep wells for
your refrigerant lines.
Some engineer’s claim about an eight year pay off
for these systems (it ta kes eight ye a rs to save
enough on energy bills to pay for the additional
construction expense), which makes it very cost
effective.
But, I’ve heard other engineers mutter th a t
ground source heat pumps will never pay off…
You’d probably have to do your own homework
on that. I do love the idea of so much earth mass
providing nearly free and indefinitely renewable
heating and cooling.
Judith Capen, AIA, practicing restoration architect, is
the author of many of the Capitol Hill Restoration
Society’s award winning guidelines for Capitol Hill
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Ask Judith
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V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Wondrous are the ways of leverage—which
basically means creating currency out of
thin air and large plans.
Thanks to leverage, the Hill community is possibly
going to get a replacement for one of its largest
public housing projects, a five city-block, 20-acre
site now occupied by Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg
housing.
Buoyed up (leveraged?) by the success of the conversion
of the Ellen Wilson Dwellings at the foot of
6th Street S.E., developers, designers and financier s
propose a project 10 times as large just south of the
Freeway, where now sit in shabby isolation the
townhouses of Carrollsburg and the larger building
housing Arthur Capper’s senior citizens.
If the design/development team of Torti Gallas &
Partners CHK, Inc. and, Mid-City, Inc. win their bid
to get a $35 million Hope 6 grant from th e
Department of Housing and Urban development,
they promise a new urban neighborhood, a large
public park, and far better housing than the present
occupants of Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg have
known. They promise, in fact, Ellen Wilson on an
enormous scale.
Behind it all is the idealistic theory that if the
poor are not concentrated, their neighborhood will
not become a slum; a corollary is that if housing is
built to the highest quality affordable, both rich
and poor will respect and maintain a neighborhood
where both rich and poor live.
This is a simplification of the theory of Hope 6,
the Department of Housing and Urban Deve lopment’s
attempt to undo the mis takes of the public
housing past. Under Hope 6, it is hoped, there
will be no more “projects,” but only “mixed income
communities” where the poor will live supported
by subsidies and the rich will want to live because
of architecture and community.
These will be communities with high-qu a l i t y
streetscapes, retail stores, parks, trees, and no parking
problems. The concept has wo rked in
Northeast’s Parkside development and elsewhere. It
is argued that it will also work here, south of the
Freeway, where so many other changes (in the line
of more development) are occurring.
This new project takes the concept a few steps
further. In the proposal for Capper/Carrollsburg,
three 10-story office buildings are proposed, plus
270 market rate units on sale to the highest bidder,
plus 280 townhouses to be sold on the roaring
C a p i tol Hill market at prices of $200 , 000 to
$500,000, plus a community center with retail and
a hoped for chain grocery store (Giant and Fresh
Fields are mentioned by developers), which would
be placed at the corner of 3rd and Virginia Avenue
S.E. adjacent to the former Washington Post plant.
Under the “leverage” plan for this 20-acres of
building, there will be 711 units of public housing—
a minor part of the overall development. Yet this
seems to be part of the overall concept—surround
and envelop the poor with middle and upper class
office goers, homeowners, shoppers, etc. and perhaps
they will give up their notorious “public housing”
ways of selling drugs, committing cri m e s ,
drinking in public and dropping candy wrappers
on the sidewalk.
Patronizing—or realistic?Who knows. One thing
is sure, the public housing element has become a
rather small dinghy behind an ocean liner of development.
Vicki Davis, the pleasant and factual president of
Mid-City, the developer of the plan, says simply,
“There are things that you want to do to help people
become self sufficient that don’t pay for themselves.”
But this community will be dominated by
offices. Davis and others admit that without large
office buildings there won’t be enough money to
build attra c t i ve housing. That’s what th ey call
leverage.
Davis says the HUD $35 million will pay for less
than 10 percent of the cost of building out the
whole project. The rest of the money must come
from the sale of land to office building developers,
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the sale of townhouses and apartments to those
able to afford them, and complex schemes of home
ownership financing for the less wealthy. “Let’s face
it,” she says, due to mortgage tax breaks and so
forth, “we’ re all public housing residents in some
sense.”
To put the new method of erecting subsidized
housing in more simple terms, the Arth u r
Capper/Carrollsburg proposal simply takes a large
tract of city land and sells part of it to private interests
in order to build better and more expensive
public housing on what’s left. In some cases, ownership
of the actual land reverts to the city after a
period of years—the ar rangements are highly technical
and complex.
Local voices have already been raised in trepidation.
Dick Wolf, one of the Hill’s staunch protectors
in the days when it was threatened by runaway
h i g h way schemes and other nutty bright ideas
from city planners, fears the scale is too massive,
too much like Rosslyn or Crystal City to fit in with
the delicate row house st re etscapes of the Hill.
“Canyon style,” it has been dubbed.
The large social question is also unanswered: Will
middle and upper middle-income families be willing
to buy south of the Freeway, which for years has
been a nearly inviolable dividing line between rich
and poor, residential and commercial, black and
white? There has been literally no “gentrification”
of the area. All hopes now rest on the massive Navy
Ya rd relocation and the Fe d e ral Gove rn m e n t’s
attempt to market the Southeast Federal Center.
One other point that Wolf and others make: Such
are the restrictions attached to the grant process,
and the oversight of HUD, that once the big, complex
“conceptual” plan of the design/development
team is accepted (if it is accepted) then it is very
hard to change important elements. The 20-acre
plan arrived in a hurry and in a hurry it is going to
be judged by HUD; there has been little time for the
community to look it over and make suggestions;
there has been little time for the community to
understand it.
The dice will roll June 22, the deadline for submission
of the proposal for the Hope 6 grant (which
will be submitted to a HUD jury, along with competing
plans from other cities).
If the developers are right, we’ll be getting “a lot
nicer housing than you have th e re now,” says
Leonard Bogorad, a market analyst who has studied
the site. If Wolf is right, the future is less bright.
“What kind of a community will we be connected
with: a new Rosslyn, a recreated urban-renewed
Southwest, or a lower level K Street NW?” he asks.
Duncan Spencer is a regular columnist for the Voice of
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sionally shared by one or another of the publishers.
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V O I C E of the Hill /May 18, 2001
THE CHAMPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Neighbors Helping Neighbors on Capitol Hi l l
Memo to Republicans:
You were right, of course.
The tax rebate was vital. The most effective community-building programs are those that neighbors
voluntarily support with their own time and money.
Memo to Democrats:
You were right, of course.
The tax rebate was bad policy. The money is critically needed for better education, housing,
environmental protection and social justice programs.
No matter what you believe about the rebate, you can make it work for a better Capitol Hill.
Pledge your rebate (or a portion of it) to the CHAMPS Community Foundation.
Our goal is to raise $100,000 to support programs in our community.
The CHAMPS Community Foundation provides grants to nonprofit programs in the arts, education, beautification and social justice in the Capitol Hill community. Since all staff is volunteer
and all administrative costs are paid by CHAMPS, 100% of donations are returned to the community. All donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
To join your neighbors in pledging some (or all) of your rebate to effectively assisting the Capitol Hill community,
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V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Barrett Linde 100 years-ago. He did what was appropriate
for the times. He made the Hill acceptable to
people who weren’t going to buy a beat up old
townhouse.”
You’ll notice that few people allow their names to
be mentioned for this article. Who knows why.
They all admire the chutzpah it took to build when
and where he did. They also seem to genuinely like
the guy, praising his sense of humor and his decency.
One even gushed, “ He’s one of the most wonderful
people I’ve ever met.”
Maybe it’s because we’ve become such restoration
snobs that it’s hard to be kind to new construction,
particularly homes that were intended to
be mid-priced, which these were.
Or maybe it’s because mentioning his name
brings a burst of delighted laughter and the relay of
some terrifically unprintable story or rumor; and
no one likes to be identified as a gossip. “Talk about
flamboyant!” one begins. “That hair! He looked like
Jesus Christ!” says another. “What a character!” say
they all.
Unlike most of the developers working around
the Hill today, Barrett was right here on the scene,
in the scene. He was handsome, charismatic, wildly
successful, and always up to something juicy. I
heard about his cowboy boots, his ponytail, his
fight promoting, his yacht, his wine cellar, wild parties,
soap operatic romances, his Maserati…
For the record: Barrett Linde does not own a
Maserati. It’s a white on white Lamborghini, and he
bought it used. “They lose too much value,” he tells
me. He does, however, have a 50-something foot
yacht.
In a business where many have been forced to
hock the silver, Barrett Linde has had a pretty slick
ride. “I’ve always known when to quit,” he says.
That he’s done, several times. During one of his
recent retirements he spent a lot of time cruising
around Florida and the Caribbean. These days his
Chances are if you’ve lived on the Hill for
a while, you’ve heard someone say, “I
live in a Barrett Linde.” Which can get
confusing because the house, or apartment
or condominium they’re referring
to is on 7th Street, SE, or Stanton Park, or Maryland
Avenue, or any one of dozens of other places.
Don Denton of Pardoe Real Estate guesses Linde
built around 100 pro p e rties, most ly re s i d e n t i a l .
He’s not sure, “Every time I think I’ve seen them all,
I turn a corner and see some more.”
Barrett built his first houses in 1959, shortly after
getting his MBA at Whar ton. He was part of a great
wave of real estate entrepreneurs, like Barbara Held
and Helen Carey, who saw the Hill as the next big
thing. But while Held and Carey came to sell our
V i c to rian beauties to young couples that we re
priced out of Georgetown, Barrett Linde built new.
His houses are, once you catch the concept, easily
recognizable.
Take the row of twelve at 13th and C, SE. The 3-
story orangey-red brick town houses are all variations
on colonial. Some of the door headers are
fans, others are broken pediments, still others are
simple boxes with dentil moldings. The six over six
windows have concrete sills; the doors are paneled
—though most are livened with a row of small
windows at the top. Wood cornices at the rooflines
have more dentil trim.
Though there’s scarcely an exterior clue, there
are two units in each building: an apartment at
ground level and a duplex above. Both are reached
from a small foyer. To make his houses affordable
for first time buyers, Linde almost always included
a rental apartment. He was one of the first in the
city to do so.
This same theme, with a handful of variations,
can be found all over the Hill.
One wag tells me, “It was architecture by Xerox.
He found a model that worked and he kept replicating
it all over.”
Another, who was around when Barrett began,
chuckles, “When you’d say something about his
cookie cutter houses, he’d laugh and tell you, “They
sell.”
Sell they did, and sell they do.
Real estate agent Avie Pogue loves her Linde. She
bought the circa 1970 house at 11th and D, SE, two
years ago, after many years of Victorian life. “It’s
quite liberating,” she says. “It’s open and bright,
and it’s easy to work with the floor plan.” She
recently sold one in another row on Stanton Park to
a client, who snapped it right up. They don’t s tay
on the market long.
Like his houses or not, another source says, “He
was the most significant real estate developer on
the Hill since John Carroll…Philadelphia Row is
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Business Bits
It’s Back to the Future for Barrett Linde
BY STEPHANIE CAVA N A U G H
V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
deeply bronzed skin comes courtesy of the tanning
bed in his home gym.
The city is hot, and it’s just what he’s been waiting
for.
The developer lives near the Wa s h i n g to n
Cathedral, in a house in a row that he built on
Klingle Road in 1975. Something of an art gallery
this is. Nearly every wall and bit of molding is hand
painted by English “grainer” Malcolm Ro b i s o n .
Richard Hunt, a sculptor whose work is at Metro
Center, designed the coffee table in the second
floor living room. “I said, build me something to
put drinks on,” says Barrett.
The table sits in front of an enormous ocean blue
canvas, one of many in the house by Czech artist,
George Dokopil. Several of the Dokopils were produced
by a curious technique of “painting” with
the soot of a burning candle.
Linde’s den, where we met, is handsomely furnished
with a lot of leather and photographs, a fireplace,
and shelves of books behind a monstrous, 71-
inch TV.
I was a few minutes late for our interview; Barrett
was a few minutes later, bounding in from his afternoon
run in his Harvard tank top and high cut running
shorts. He tossed a towel on the beige leather
couch and sprawled, lean muscled arms stretched
out across the back, long legs loosely crossed, right
ankle flopped to left knee. That couch might normally
seat five comfortably, but it’s only big enough
for one Linde.
You will recall that I said he began building in
1959, after grad school, which should let yo u
guesstimate his age—you’d never know it looking at
him. I mention ru m o rs of a facelift. He smiles
wolfishly, “I just take care of myself.”
He tells me he has three kids, “Well, they’re not
kids, they’re old people. Former kids.” And they
have kids; there should be four by now. His son’s
wife had a baby last month, his daughter is about
due. The third child, a daughter, is not married and
has no children, “which is good,” he grins.
Arthur, his “favorite and only son,” is now his
partner. Barrett came out of his latest retirement to
work with him, adding to an empire that took off
f rom the Hill to Adams Morgan, Logan Circ l e ,
McArthur Blvd, and Dupont Circle. Fifty units are
now going up at 12th and N, NW, there’s another
project in the booming U Street cor ridor.
He also continues to own many DC properties,
including a few on the Hill. Eighty to ninety, the
estimate I’d heard, “would be low-balling it,” I’m
told.
“To do what he’s done,” another of my brave
sources whispered, “he must have been loaded to
begin with.”
Not so. Barrett grew up “very close to where we’re
sitting, in an apartment house across the street.
Prior to that we lived above my grandfather’s on
16th Street. My dad,” he says with evident pride,
“was a surgeon.”
His father died before Barrett finished school,
and a fellowship helped pay for the Wharton MBA.
When he came back to DC he studied law at night
at Georgetown for a year while working days at a
title company and as a commercial real estate broker.
He hooked up with a friend to buy three lots on
Capitol Hill, but was soon on his own. His partner,
he says, “needed to buy a car, so I bought him out.”
W h i ch wa s n’t exa c t ly easy, since he had no
money. “I went, I’m sure, to twenty lenders—savings
and loans were where it was at in those days,
not banks. A nice old guy at Columbia Federal kind
of believed in me and loaned me the money.”
Why here? “I liked the Hill,” he says. “It had great
appeal to me because the price range was lower
then the more posh sections of the city like Foggy
B ot tom, which was just developing, and
G e o r g etown, of course, which was esta b l i s h e d
fact.”
The potential seemed wide open, “I liked the fact
that it could encompass a much wider market. That
you could build for less rich people, people who
could affo rd less, but still wanted an urban
lifestyle.”
His mother, who lived on the Hill as a girl, didn’t
share his vision. When Barrett completed a group
of townhouses at 7th and G she “came down and
said, ‘we worked our fingers to the bone to get out
of here.’”
The first houses he built were 119 and 121 7th
Street, SE. “It was,” he says, “a vacant lot with an
egg candling factory behind it.”
Egg candling factory?
“Well, they called it a factory. It was an old
garage-like place where they would take a candle
and look at eggs to see if they were single or double
yolk, grade them accordingly, and put them in cartons.
I used to get all my eggs there.”
Selling those first houses was a bit of a cliffhanger,
“It took about 3 months, during which I about
had a coronary,” he laughs. “Then all of a sudden
they sold and I made more money than I ever
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thought existed. Those were days you worked for a
hundred bucks a week, and here I made $30,000. I
thought I struck gold.
From there, the good times rolled: “I built a lot of
stuff, and it grew like Topsy.”
“He would build a row of five or six or seven and
they’d sell before they were finished,” says Charlie
Verbeck, who was with Barbara Held Real Estate
back in the 60s. “They were solidly built…pretty
good investments. I bought one about 25 years ago
for $40,000 held it for 5 or 6 years, and sold it for
$82,000. Today it would bring $450,000.”
At first Barrett left the design of his houses to
architects, but gradually got more involved, even
importing the marble that he frequently used for
foyers, fireplaces and thresholds. Now, he says, “I
thrive on design. In fact it’s my favorite part of
building.” His attention to detail was recognized by
the American Society of Interior Designers, which
made him an honorary member a few years ago.
“I believed that the city was where things should
be. That urban re d evelopment would happen—
though I was a little premature,” he laughs. To
encourage that renaissance, he gave his homes a
California feel: open floor plans, wood floors, lots
of glass, wrought iron rails, gardens and parking in
the rear, even bi-level living rooms with slightly
raised dining areas. He figured, “If I give them
much of what they’ll find in suburban housing,
they’ll choose to live in town.”
Then he made the deal even spicier, adding that
rental apartment to slash the carrying costs.
Barrett says he quickly began “began pushing the
envelope” of where it was acceptable to live and
develop. Parts of the Hill, he says, “were genuinely
rough in those days.”
He remembers drawing out cash for his crews on
p ay day: “I used to run down the center of
Pennsylvania Avenue with the payroll…there were
always dubious characters lurking about.”
(This brings a chuckle from Restoration Society
leader, Dick Wolf, who moved to the Hill in 1964:
“It was not a scary place. It was just a rundown
place—and the closer in you got the more run
down it got…though it was really quite lovely in its
disheveled way.”
Many of the homes, says Dick, were divided into
apartments during the war years: “What you had
were a lot of hard drinking, rough and tumble, old
timey whites—a lot left over from the war in these
cut up apartments, and uneducated people from
West Virginia that came for war jobs and stayed…”
“By far the nicer part of the Hill,” he says, as a by
the way, “was out toward the stadium, in many
respects it was more solidly middle class. Though
down at the river there were poor whites and blacks
living on the mud flats along the Anacostia, trapping
muskrat and catching fish, living off th e
river.”
Barrett had a few, not many, run-ins with the
forces of restoration. While most of the building he
did was on vacant lots, a few oldies fell.
The group of houses at 8th and C, SE replaced a
Catholic school and the tall, gloomy, gray brick
building “where they kept the nuns.” Barrett claims
that “It was the only time people begged me to ‘tear
it down’ and replace a building with something
new.”
But the two big houses sitting on large lots at 3rd
and Maryland, which came down for condos? Dick
Wolf says their demolition was one of the Great
Moments in Restoration History, a pivotal event for
the Hill’s fledgling pre s e rvation move m e n t .
I m m e d i a t e ly aft e r, tighter controls we re put in
place.
Undeterred, Barrett kept building, barely even
slowing for the ’68 riots. He says he only began to
transfer his attention elsewhere as it became more
difficult to find vacant property to build on and
“find deals that made sense.”
But even when most of his business shifted to the
other side of town he “resisted moving my office
from the Hill.” He liked it around here, a lot. “The
neighborhoody feeling existed here long after it
was lost elsewhere in town.” he sighs. “I guess that’s
changed.”
He smiles when I say, not really.
Gore Hosts Bash at Brewery. Al and Tipper Gore
took over the Hill’s branch of Capital City Brewery
for a little evening soiree on May 25. The casually
dressed duo (we understand that Tipper, in jeans
and a chambray shirt, looked like she just wandered
in from spraying her roses) treated 500 campaign
supporters to a nacho buffet. While there was no
political agenda, the party was billed as a “thank
you” and a welcome back to Washington for the
Gores, the crowd was victory-celebration jubilant
over Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords’ defection from
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on the menu. “In Louisiana all you have is
seafood,” says Dawn
The trio eventually settled in Washington, where
Miguel worked at the Old Ebbitt, then Ridgewells
Caterers, and finally (except for a brief foray to
Miami, which “he didn’t like”) to the Embassy.
Dawn and Jorge, were together at several hotels,
including the Jeffe rson, befo re Jorge opened
Banana Café (which Miguel and Dawn helped him
start). Dawn joined him at the restaurant as manager
several years ago.
While the Starfish Café will be a little pricier than
Banana Café, it will still be reasonable. “This will
not be a ‘special occasion’ restaurant,” says Jorge.
“We want to keep it affordable, and see people
often.”
And will there be a sidewalk café? “Hopefully, by
next season,” says Jorge. “If we can fit fifteen people
it would be wonderful.”
D ru m roll Please…Sta r b u cks made their opening
official on May 22 at, let’s see, 11:19AM, with the
st i rring “first pour” by Councilmember Sharo n
Ambrose.
Our newest javateria is a fine melding of old and
new. Vintage photos and ar chitectural drawings of
Capitol Hill line the walls of the sunny downstairs
seating area and the loft-like second floor, which
boasts a dramatic fireplace, cozy seating, and a
small conference room overlooking Pennsylvania
Avenue. But if you want to sip your coffee outdoors,
you’ll have to sneak a cup across to Xando. The
sidewalk café license is not yet in hand.
The opening—which featured itty bitty pastries
and teeny weenie cups of specialty coffee, which
you could nibble and slurp to the sounds of a jazz
combo—was presided over by Senator Patty Murray
of the great s tate of Washington, where Starbucks
was founded in 1971. Murray noted in her welcoming
re m a rks that she commutes bet we e n
Washingtons every week and can now “have a little
the GOP, which was announced earlier in the day.
Gore sidekick Joe Lieberman and wife Hadassah
were also spotted grinning ear to ear in the crowd—
both, we’re told, were well suited for the occasion—
possibly because Lieberman had just come from his
office while Gore…did not.
Yes, We have No Bananas. The Place, that tacky go
go/private party joint on Barracks Row will soon be
the place to go for…seafood. Jorge Zamorano of
Banana Café and partners Dawn McGowan and
Miguel Rodriguez expect to open The Starfish Café
in about two months—or as soon as renovations are
complete and the liquor license is approved.
Jorge says the Voice of the Hill Business Survey was
directly responsible for the style of the new restaurant
and the menu—the cry “Enough with the
Mexican!” came through loud and clear, as did the
request for restaurants that are a little more upscale.
“This will be a completely different concept from
Banana Café, nothing will be the same” says Jorge.
“Banana Café is a tropical bar, and this is not.” At
the Starfish Café they’ll be going for “sophisticated
and vibrant.” Then he adds with a laugh, “But no
matter how I try I’m sure there will be a lot of
color.”
Chef Miguel, who has been ruling the kitchen at
the Embassy of Argentina for the last ten years, says
that the emphasis will be on broiled and grilled
seafood—but there will also be steaks and chicken
dishes. The menu will change frequently. Dinner s
at the Embassy need to appeal to a wide variety of
tastes, he tells us, “so we do a lot of French and
Continental dishes, a little bit of everything.”
“To see his work is beautiful,” sighs Dawn.
The partners are long-time friends. Jorge and
Miguel, both originally from Puerto Rico, met during
their first year of college at Loyola University.
A fter graduation th ey moved to Baton Ro u g e ,
where Miguel and Dawn ran a country club together
—which means we can expect a few Creole twists
bit of home near where I work.”
Ambrose, who was caught ogling the pastry case
before the ceremonies began, added, “It’s lovely to
have Starbucks here, and I’m very pleased at how
respectful you’ve been of this historic community.”
Not only was the Councilmember applauding
the restoration of what was, at the turn of the last
c e n t u ry, the home of the C.D. Ke n ny Coffe e
Company, but also Starbucks’ support for the DC
H e ri tage To u rism Coalition, which was ta g g i n g
onto this opening to introduce a series of historic
walking tours of the neighborhood.
Sta r b u cks joined with the Capitol Hill
Association of Merchants and Pro fe s s i o n a l s
(CHAMPS) and the DC Chamber of Commerce to
present an $8,000 check to support the project.
Kathy Smith, director of DC Heritage Tourism,
explained that the 1 1/2 hour tours will be given as
part of the neighborhood’s Second Saturday art
walks this summer. The Hill, which had its first
great building boom after the Civil War, “is a virtual
museum of Victorian architecture,” said Smith.
The tours will focus on that era, touching on the
architectural styles and on the social history of the
period.
Guests at the Starbucks opening were treated to
an abbreviated version of the tour, which was created
by historian Paul Williams and led by Natalie
Zanin, one of two guides that will take on the role
of Emily Edson Briggs—a journalist, and fine gossip,
who lived at the Maples (now Fri e n d s h i p
House) after the Civil War.
Zanin, a most delightful actress, was got up in a
peacock blue suit complete with bustle, leg-o-mutton
sleeves, and cameo centered in her lacy jabot.
She set a jaunty pace, turned not a few heads, and
her patter was full of surprises: Did you know that
the Donahoe Motor Car Company’s factory and
showroom was located at the corner of 2nd and
Pennsylvania Avenue in 1900? Did you know that
the decrepit (but so intriguing) Charleston-style
wooden house with the long side porch on A Street,
SE bet ween 3rd and 4th once belonged to
Constantino Brumidi, the artist that painted the
frescos in the Senate wing of the Capitol? Did you
know that the great stained glass window at St.
Mark’s Church was created by Tiffany? Do you
know who the Seward is of Seward Square? Ha.
We ’re not tellin’ — ta ke the tour next Second
Saturday.
Frida Kahlo Gets Stamp of Approval. Alvear Studios,
the south of the bord e r- c e n t ric ga l l e ry on 8th
Street, SE, has been tapped to host the DC unveiling
of the Frida Kahlo commemorative stamp by the US
Postal Service at a private party for 300 big shots on
July 12.
“Mexican culture and art were things that Frida
Kahlo embraced, and powerfully depicted in her
environment, her paintings and her attire,” say
Chris Alvear, who owns the shop along with his
partner, Francisco Pliego. The place will be even
more of a fiesta than usual for the event, with hostesses
dressed like the artist greeting guests (no word
on whether they’ll go with one eyebrow or two),
Mexican folk art adorned with Kahlo’s image decorating
the walls and giant versions of the stamp in
the windows.
Stephanie Cavanaugh is Editor in Chief and Co-
Publisher of the Voice of the Hill
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HPRB on Holladay
Replacing a White Elephant
May 31. The Holladay Corporation’s plans to develop
the Medlink/Capitol Hill Hospital site at 8th and
Massachusetts Avenue NE came up for another concept
review by the Historic Preservation Review
Board (HPRB) on May 24.
This project has changed substantially since it
was originally presented in September 2000. At that
time the developer was proposing 228 luxury rental
apartments using just the front portion of the existing
hospital. Since then, Holladay has negotiated
the purchase of the entire Medlink/Capitol Hill
Hospital complex—the full square, with the exception
of St. James Church and rectory.
The plan now calls for 335 apartments, some
rental, some condominium, in a mix of buildings,
some new, some restored.
(This is all in addition to a townhouse component
that has already been approved, and will be
built on an adjacent lot.)
David Maloney of the HPRB staff called the new
project “a major improvement, a shifting around of
d e n s i t y.” The height and mass of the ori g i n a l
design had been one of the major community concerns;
it seemed to dwarf the neighboring townhouses.
It is still big, but Maloney said in his report that it
“is also unique in the historic district…Capitol Hill
hospital was a significant neighborhood institution
that was historically housed in a complex of buildings
much larger than those in the surrounding
context. Refacing or replacing…with new construction
of similar scale but greater visual appeal represents
a reasonable adaptation of the property for
current use…”
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be reminded
of what existed…it is one of the raisins in the pudding
that is Capitol Hill,” added Maloney
The staff report described the project’s five “seg -
ments” and contained
the re c o m m e n d a t i o n s
that would guide th e
decisions of the Board
members:
Segment “A” is th e
1928 hospital wing that
faces Massach u s et t s
A venue and the 19 5 6
addition on 8th Street.
The developers propose
remodeling the 4-story
building for 60 apartments
and re sto ri n g
the façade, which had
been re qu e sted at th e
previous HPRB hearing.
The Staff Re p o rt suggested
minor modifications
to the design.
Segment “B” is a 100-
unit, 6-story apartment
building that wo u l d
replace the wing at 7th
and Massachusetts. The
staff called the design “well conceived. While large,
it is similar in size to the existing hospital wing.”
The main cornice, at 65 feet, is higher than what
exists, but the report finds it more compatible with
the historic district.
Segment C is the 6-story 1975 patient tower on
7th Street, which would be refaced and modified to
accommodate about 120 units. The report calls this
wing a major improvement over the existing building,
which is “unsympathetic to the historic context.”
Some design modifications were suggested to
give it more “vertical proportions.”
Segment D is a 35-unit condominium built in
townhouse style atop the underground garage at
8th and C Streets. The “townhouses” would be four
stories and about 48 feet high. Too tall, complains
the report. They should be three stories max. The
design was also judged too literal in its copying of
historic façades. The staff prefers an “imaginative
expression” of our own times that is compatible
with neighboring buildings.
Segment E is a new wing of about 24 units at 7th
and C Streets that was designed to look like 3-story
town houses with Italianate facades. Since it’s an
apartment house, the staff thought it should look
like one, suggesting the developer look at existing
small apartment buildings in the neighborhood,
like the Arundel at 516 A Street, NE.
Please memorize the above before proceeding
with this article.
Project Architect, Eric Colbert, who attended the
meeting along with Lee Weber and Rita Bamberger
of Holladay Corp o ration, said that numero u s
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changes have been made to the proposal in
response to the neighborhood—including reducing
the size by 30,000 square feet and the height by
30 feet. Some staff suggestions are being considered,
but were not included in this presentation.
The developers were advised not to present a “moving
target” and to allow the Board to weigh in
before making more changes.
Colbert gamely noted, “I enjoy working with the
community, the comments have been very effective.”
This is good, because there will no doubt be
many more meetings on this development.
Ivette Basterrechea and Janet Quigley, representing
Ad v i s o ry Neighborhood Commission (ANC)
6A, said the ANC has voted “not to support the
project in its current form.”
Quigley said that while the mix of condos and
a p a rtments are liked, residents still oppose th e
height, massing and density. Neighbors feel the
new tower at 7th Street “has appeal, but at 80 feet it
is too tall…overshadowing the 30-foot row houses
that surround it.”
The ANC recommended that the townhouses of
Segment D (at 8th and C) be reduced to 3-stories,
using the height of St. James Church as a reference
point. They also asked that mature street trees be
preserved or, if necessary, replaced by trees of substantial
size. The ANC also took issue with Segment
E, which they feel should be par k.
Nancy Metzger, Chair of the Restoration Society’s
Historic District Committee, said her committee
agreed with most of the HPRB staff recommendations,
but had a few additional suggestions: they’d
like to see an entrance added to the 1956 portion of
the old hospital that fronts on 8th Street to break
up the long unbroken stretch that has been proposed
by the developers. They would also like to see
more articulation along the roofline of Segment B.
They too agreed that Segment D should be reduced
to 3-stories to make it better relate to the church
and the townhouses across the street.
The Restoration Society also supports the recommendation
that Segment E should look like what it
is—a small apartment house. Metzger suggested
they consider a Spanish or Mediterranean style,
which has been used in similarly sized buildings in
the neighborhood.
The Stanton Park Neighborhood Association supported
the evaluation of the Restoration Society.
Monte Edwards stressed the importance of reducing
the “apparent height” of Segment C—the nursing
home fronting on 7th St re et that is being
remodeled and re f a c e d — by introducing a lowe r
cornice line.
Richard Downing, Rector of St. James Church,
offered respectful disagreement, and came armed
with a slogan, “No higher than St. James Spire.”
Reverend Downing called the project “enormous.
360 new dwellings in our neighborhood…It looms
large in our hearts.”
He also felt the drawings presented by Holladay
were not representative, “There appears to be lots of
green space [around the church], but there isn’t.”
The Reverend urged the developer to look carefully
at pictures of his historic church and be more sensitive
to the way it is framed.
Additional testimony was given by Keith Bridger,
of the Capitol Hill Coalition for Sensible
Development, a neighborhood group that was created
last year to fight the hospital project, and several
neighbors who complained about the overall
scale of the development. Said one, “It’s a pumpkin
squeezed in a matchbox.”
Councilmember Sharon Ambrose, who has voted
early and often for this development, waited until
all the speakers had been heard before getting in
the last word. She said, “The hospital has always
been a white elephant in terms of architecture, and
it has tread heavily on the community.” Capitol
Hill hospital once had 700 employees, 350 beds,
“the comings and goings” of groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, and “one of the busiest emergency
rooms in the city.”
When evaluating the Holiday Corporation’s proposal,
she said, “I have to look back to what impact
this site had in the past…[This has] an infinitely
more positive impact. Is it exactly right? No…But
I’m not sure that another year or two of study will
improve it.”
A m b rose closed with a wa rning: “If we ke e p
tweaking, I fear the closing of DC General could
impact the future of the site…I urge you to consider
the fact that we need to move this project along.”
Despite the neighborhood objections, and a few
similar ones from his Board, HPRB Chair, Tersh
Boasberg, felt the design was “moving in the right
direction.” Reminding the Board that this is still a
concept review, not final approval for the project,
he suggested they accept the staff report with the
modifications.
After an additional quibble or two, this was done.
Thumbs Way Up for Streetscape—
Way Down for Parking
Reviewing Main Street
May 25. Jeff Lee, of the architectural firm Lee and
Liu, got a hefty round of applause at the third and
final Barra cks Row redesign meeting at the old
Naval Hospital on Wednesday, May 23. His proposal
for sidewalks and streets is clearly meeting with
neighborhood approval.
L e e ’s firm is one of seve ral consulting teams
retained by the Department of Public Works, with
funding from the Fe d e ral Highways Ad m i n i stration,
for the overhaul of 8th Street, SE that is
expected to begin this fall.
There have been a handful of modifications since
the last session on April 25th.
While the 20-foot wide sidewalks still have a 5-
foot border of blue stone at curbside, those pavers
no longer alternate with squares of low growing
grass. Bowing to community comments (though he
maintained his original plan is workable and more
attractive), Lee has substituted a simple pattern of
blue stone between the tree boxes, “a more conservative
approach,” he called it. Cast iron hoops have
been added as box surrounds—another community
request—and Lee has settled on large granite cob -
blestones for the alley entries.
Other elements remain the same, including the
larger tree boxes, the Washington Globe lights, the
b rightening of the under- f re eway area, and th e
street furniture.
Lee is now touring the corridor with Bill Beck,
the city’s arborist, tagging healthy trees and marking
others for removal. Quite a few of the street’s
Red Oaks are dying, or endangered, and the plan is
to replace all but the oldest and healthiest with a
new canopy—most likely Chinese Elms, which can
be seen along 7th Street, NW, in the downtown arts
district.
While Lee got applause for his st re et s c a p e ,
D.M.J.M Harris, the Baltimore-based consultants
that have been looking at parking and bus stops in
the corridor, got panned.
St eve Sabatini of Sheri d a n’s Steak House
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entrance to the corridor, and key to the street’s
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zones be doubled in length to 110 feet on both sides
of the street, and that the bus stop in front of
Payless Shoes be moved down to the 7-11 at E Street.
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(It seems that their studies didn’t disclose that the
bus stop was at one time in front of 7-11, but there
were so many problems that it was moved.)
To complaints from the audience that the plan is
unworkable, that there will still be far too much
congestion and not enough customer parking, the
response was that it would work if traffic and parking
regulations we re “enfo rc e d .” (Need we say
more?)
The consultants explained that they took into
account the needs of the fire station, and the preferences
of the owners and managers of the businesses
in the block and 208 bus passengers that
agreed to participate in a sur vey.
Not considered were the many times stated preference
of the Barracks Row Business Alliance, the
Barracks Row MainStreet project, the Capitol Hill
Association of Merchants and Pro fe s s i o n a l s
(CHAMPS), ANC6B, the Capitol Hill Restoration
Society, the Sousa Neighborhood Association and
the police to have the bus stop in front of Payless
Shoes moved to the Eastern Market Metro Plaza—a
move that is also endorsed by Councilmember’s
Ambrose and Brazil. This is a battle that has been
going on for years.
Moving the stop, it is reasoned, would alleviate
much of the traffic congestion, be more convenient
for subway passengers transfer ring to the bus (who
can’t even see the stop from the Plaza), give the
street more parking, and possibly mean less trash—
particularly on the west side of the street with its
high concentration of fast food places that attract
mobs of teenagers (who are not known as the neatest
of people).
D.M.J.M’s own survey reports that 43% of the
riders transfer from Metro and 31% are transferring
from another bus line, which would indicate that
the majority of riders would be served as well—or
better—by a Metro Plaza stop.
Can’t be done, said the consultants. Metro wants
all s tops increased in length to allow two buses to
pull in at the curb, something they’ve provided all
along the avenue, and the Plaza only allows for one.
(Though there are no plans to move the stop diagonally
across the street heading north. That space is
actually several feet shorter.)
Nor would they consider eliminating the stop,
although they admit that moving it down the block
to the 7-11 makes it more likely that subway rider s
will cross Pennsylvania Avenue to the s top in front
of Hine Jr. High.
The subtext is the suspicion that the push to
move the stop is racially and economically motivated.
That many of the customers of the fast food and
inexpensive clothing shops on the west side of the
street are young and African-American, and gentrif
i e rs want to move those businesses and th e i r
clients—out. Ignored is the fact that most of the
businesses along 8th Street—a group that couldn’t
be more ra c i a l ly mixe d — a re solidly behind th e
move.
In a fo l l ow-up discussion, CHAMPS Pre s i d e n t
Dennis Bourgault wondered “whether they heard
the overwhelming reaction of the community to
the placement of the bus stops. They didn’t seem to
want to acknowledge that there are problems—and
there could be other solutions. We don’t need three
stops for the bus in the same three-block area—and
we’d like to see the stop at Hine better utilized. I
don’t see why it can’t be used in place of the stop at
Payless.”
More bus woes lie down the block, where the
consultants have pretty much eliminated any parking
under the Freeway and between Virginia and L
St re et s — recommending two solid blocks of bus
stop, which, they admit, may be used in part as a
“staging area” by Metro (read idling buses).
They also claim that they have considered the
needs of the businesses that already exist around
8th and M, and taken into account that the Blue
Castle building on the corner will at some point be
turned into shops or offices or some combination.
Yet they have provided just 23-metered parking
spaces south of the Freeway, and no loading zone
for deliveries.
Lots of fancy computer programs were employed
to figure out that most of the east side of 8th Street
can have angled parking, and that the portion of
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Wi th angled parking, the total number of
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One parking positive: though it is hardly convenient
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Restoration Society Nominates Rob
Nevitt for President
Furness Bows Out After Three Terms
June 6. Rob Nevitt, curre n t ly the Chair of th e
C a p i tol Hill Re sto ration Societ y’s Public Safet y
Committee, will be the shoe-in for President when
the Hill’s most powe rful residential association
holds its annual meeting on June 21.
Outgoing President Brian Furness says, “It’s been
a fascinating experience, but th ree terms is
enough.” Meanwhile, he’s not going far. After bowing
out he’ll be installed as the new Chair of the
o r ga n i z a t i o n’s Community Deve l o p m e n t
Committee, working on his favorite projects: Boys
Town and Eastern Market.
Furness may have been a dynamo, but Nevitt is
no slouch. In the last year, he served as the Society’s
point person in the battle to prevent the city from
establishing a pre-trial detention center “half way
house” on the DC General campus, and directed
their campaign in support of neighborhood-friendly
Alcohol Beverage Control legislation.
A Hill resident since 1983, Rob is a retired foreign
service officer with the U.S. Information Agency.
He served mostly in Asia, directing East Asia Affairs
for USIA in the eighties. He was public affairs coordinator
for President Reagan’s Asian trips during
that same period, and later served in Japan and at
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Retired in 1996, Rob and his wife Audrey have
since organized an Orange Hat group, worked with
the Metropolitan Police Department on community
policing, with Trees for Capitol Hill and with the
C a p i tol Hill Garden Club. He also tuto rs fo r
Friendship House.
Other candidates for CHRS office include Katie
Miller for First Vice President and Mark Anderson,
who has been nominated to remain as Second Vice
President. Long-time Treasurer Lyle Schauer has
been nominated again for that post and To m
Grahame is the candidate for Secretary.
The Society’s Annual Meeting will be at St. James
Church, 222 8th Street, NE. Doors will open at
7PM.
Hammering Out A Community Amenity
Quid Pro Quo for Bryan School Development
June 8. One of the last acts of outgoing President of
the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, Brian Furness,
is hammering out a community “amenity” from
Eakin Youngentaub Associates (EYA), the developers
who will be turning the Bryan School at 13th
and Independence Avenue, SE into a townhouse
and condominium complex.
The Bryan School is being developed as a PUD, a
Planned Unit Development, which allows th e
entire project to be treated as a single unit for planning
purposes; simplifying the zoning process and
allowing the developer to do things with the property
they might not be able to do otherwise. “It lets
us be more creative without getting individual variances,”
says Toby Millman of EYA.
In exchange for such simplicity, the law requires
that the developer give something back to the community;
a public “amenity” to compensate for the
benefit they receive.
Furness says EYA “points out that taking an abandoned
school and renovating it in a historically
sensitive manner is a public amenity in its own
right and should be taken into consideration. They
also argue that the Zoning Commission has recognized
that in the past. At the same time they say,
‘we’re prepared to go beyond that.’”
But some think EYA should be going far “beyond
that.” Furness says, “some in the neighborhood say
there should be hundreds of thousands of dollars in
public amenities that come out of this project—
they’re going to make a lot of money and the community
is entitled to a give back of some percentage
of their profit.”
A number of suggestions were made at a community
meeting that was held at St. Monica’s church
last month: Friends of Lincoln Park thought EYA
might support the playground renovation; others
thought something should be done for Pay n e
Elementary School, which is located a few blocks
away, and where the Bryan School kids now go; and
the Capitol East folk pressed for improvements to
the 15th Street commercial corridor.
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Toby Millman says he “wants to make clear that
we had always said we’d do something off site…The
key is to make sure it is straightforward and tangible,
something of a well-defined nature that can
e a s i ly be put into a zoning commission ord e r.
Given those parameters we’ve been open to just
about anything—within a reasonable cost.
There’s uncertainty about what, and how much,
the community can ask fo r. Furness says th e
Department of Zoning will make the final decision
and “there are no good guidelines on what the
usual practice has been—the Office of Planning
hasn’t been much help.” He hopes that EYA and
residents can fashion a mutually agreeable plan and
that “we can go arm in arm to the commission, and
say this is what we think you should agree on.”
Lennox School Update
Frank Reed of Stanton Development Corporation,
which recently formed a joint venture with Dayton
Investments to purchase and renovate the Lennox
School for rental apartments and a small townhouse
development, closed on the property at 5th
and G Streets, SE the fir st week in June.
Reed says they’re now “heavily into planning for
the project and will be taking drawings to the ANC
and the PSA once they’re ready...We should have
something to show the neighborhood—shortly.”
T h ey’re also trying to get on the Histo ri c
Preservation Review Board’s July agenda; the HPRB
meets just once each month.
When might construction begin? “Oh, that’s a
long way off,” says Reed, “nine months to a year.
There’s a lot of ground you have to cover first—
demolishing the existing structure, preparing the
site. There’s a lot of infrastructure you have to have
before starting the houses.
The actual const ruction, he says, “is like th e
other shoe dropping.”
Eyes Pop at House Prices—
And Prefabs
BY MAGGIE HALL
Two dramatic indicators of what is happening to
housing all over the Hill are springing up:
At 6th and Pe n n s ylvania, SE—opposite Mr.
Henry’s—a pair of townhouses squeeze into the
long-time empty corner lot. The billboard
announcing the development reveals a detail that
has passers - by doing a double-ta ke, then leave s
them slack-jawed and laughing, the price tag states:
“starting at $639.000.”
Meanwhile, nine blocks away—at 15th, opposite
Payne elementary school—folks have been just as
wide-eyed.
On Tuesday morning, May 8th, the vacant lot
that’s been there 20 years or more, was as vacant as
ever. By the end of the week, the best part of five
townhouses were in place—thanks to advanced,
modular building techniques. Wall-by-wall, floorby-
floor, roof-by-roof, all the vital bits and pieces
were swiftly lifted and dropped into position by an
enormous crane.
Word is that the 4-bedroom (with rental unit)
homes are in the $425,000 range. Posh-prefabs (a
term, by the way, the industry hates) personified.
Pardoe Real Estate is handling the sale of the
three story “luxury” homes at 6th Street. Realtor
Ethan Carson says there’ll be no problem selling
them—at the advertised price, which he knows has
“awed” people.
About the benchmark the price sets for house
prices in the Capitol Hill community, Ethan says:
“The developers know that people are laughing at
the thought of paying so much—but they’ve built
in other areas where people have laughed at the
price and they’ve sold them all. You’ve got to realize
that, in some DC areas, people are paying more
for condos—which come with steep month ly
fees—than the asking price for these houses.”
So what would you get for your money? Well, for
instance, the master-suite comes with a fireplace
and a Jacuzzi. It also boasts a walk-in closet you
could have a party in. It measures 14’ 7” x 7’ 8.”
But car parking is minimal. One off-street space
for each home. As for views—totally non-existent
on one entire side. The backs of both homes are
barely divided by air from the block of apartments
next door. And there’s nowhere to sit outside. No
pocket-sized patio, not even a hint of a deck, balcony
or porch—though there is Mr. Henry’s across
the street.
The folks who eventually take up residence on
15th—the properties are on what used to be the
original Safeway car park—will fare better in the
outdoor department. There are decks on each of
their three floors and off-street parking for two car s
per unit.
Local realtors are not involved in the marketing
for this development, named “15 th St re et
C o m m o n s .” Developer Brent Herndon, of
International Concept Housing, says that all the
homes were bought 18 months ago by “investors.”
But, he adds, that doesn’t mean they will not be for
sale. He claims that when they become available
they will be sold “on-line,” via a website used by
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social service agencies are—or just to know what
agencies in the District are helping people.
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House. You know, organizations that reach out to
people and are an impor tant part of the community
because they give back to the community. Now
that we are practically neighbors, we wanted to participate
in some small way by volunteering some of
our time,” said a couple that had just moved to the
District from Chicago.
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$425,000.
“Things are changing around here,” he says.
You can say that, again, and again, and probably
again....
Intrepid reporter, Maggie Hall, writes about Eastern
Market on page 6.
Patterson Bests White in Ward 6
Dems Election
Contest a Two-Vote Squeaker
June 8: Michael O. Patterson, interim treasurer of
the Ward 6 Democrats, is the organization’s new
leader, beating out Charles White, 76 to 74, in the
contest held June 1 at the Anacostia branch of the
D.C. Public Library.
An article in the June 7 edition of the Washington
Post’s District Weekly says that Patterson, the director
of human resources for the local affiliate of
United Cerebral Palsy, is “closely allied” with Mayor
Williams. Patterson is a mayoral appointee to the
Board of Appeals and Review, which considers various
licensing matters.
The Post quotes Patterson, who has lived on the
Hill since May 2000: “The new kid on the block slid
all the way to home…A lot of people tell you the
Ward 6 Democrats were at one time the model
organization, but a lot of them will admit that
within the last year or so, it has gone down the
d rain: low participation, no evidence of wo rk ,
financial instability.”
Spielberg Has Landed!
Minority Report Filming June 22
Steven Spielberg’s minions are already at work turning
the triangular park at 17th and C, SE, in front of
the Boys and Girls Club, into a futuristic playground
for the June 22 filming of Minority Report,
the director’s latest, no doubt, blockbuster.
The film, which stars Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep
and Max von Sydow, is based on a story by science
fiction maestro, Philip K. Dick. It ’s the year 2080,
goes the plot, and you can get into trouble for even
thinking about committing a crime. Enter Tom
Cruise, as a police officer in the “pre-crimes” division,
who finds himself hunted down for a murder
that hasn’t even happened—yet.
Besides a lot of fuss and parking trauma, the
neighborhood will be benefiting from this stellar
visitation. We hear a “donation” will be made to
the Boys and Girls Club, which will be used as a
mess hall and staging area, and though the jungle
gym, carousel and other fancy playground equipment
will levitate at the end of the day—the crew
will leave the flowers, crape myrtles and junipers
that are being installed to prettify the space.
The film is expected to be released in June, 2002.
Volunteers Take a Shine to Friendship
House
BY SHERONE JOYNER
It may have been pouring rain outside, but that didn’t
stop vo l u n t e e rs from taking a shine to
Friendship House on Saturday, May 19. This was the
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pleted every item on the list, including repairs to
the handicap-access ramp and Grandma’s House (a
playhouse designed for the children). Transforming
the work and play areas for the children was particularly
rewarding for the volunteers.
Teresa Hawkins said, “Everything went rather
smoothly…It was amazing to see how much work
75 people were able to accomplish…the result of
their effo rts is ve ry not i c e a b l e .” Jerry Haley,
Director of Development and Communications for
Friendship House, added, “There were many projects
that the volunteers were able to complete in
one day that would normally take a year or so…we
are looking forward to working with them again in
the future.”
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Web Methods were the sponsors for this event.
Many of the volunteers came from the sponsoring
organizations, with the majority from AOL.
Sherone Joyner was one of the volunteers at Friendship
House, and took a shine to writing about the experi -
ence.
HAP Moving Program to Brent
Summer School Anyone?
The Higher Ach i evement Pro gram (HAP)—a
Neighborhood Learning Center that has a 25-year
history of challenging “DC’s brightest students” to
succeed academically—will be moving its Capitol
Hill pro gram from Hine Jr. High to Bre n t
Elementary School this September.
HAP Executive Director, Maureen Holla, says the
o r ganization has applied for a $250,000 “21 st
Century Learning Grant” from the US Department
of Education, which will be used for developing an
achievement center with state-of-the-art computer
facilities for Brent students, the HAP academy and
the community.
Holla calls Brent Principal Connie Cowley, “An
enlightened principal, who is interested in leveraging
eve ry opportunity for her young people.”
Cowley will also make a long-term commitment to
partnering with HAP, which is essential to the success
of the program.
HAP now runs two centers, the one on the Hill
and another at Florida Avenue and 17th Street, NW.
The Capitol Hill center was served by 70 volunteers
this year, “and we expect to see them all back in the
Fall,” says Holla. She’s now hunting for another 90
volunteers for a third center that will open this
September at a location not yet pinned down but
s o m ew h e re, “east of the ri ve r, in Wa rd 7, near
Metro.”
Business Bits continued from page 26
Star Spottin’ at Stompin’
BY MAGGIE HALL
H o l ly wood and Bro a d way star Judith Light wa s
spotted sippin’ on the patio at Stompin’ Grounds
recently.
Light, we hear, passed on Stompin’s wide-range
of coffee offerings and opted instead for an iced-tea.
Her visit produced an enthused welcome fro m
Sto mp i n’s manager, Tawanna Littlejohn, who
enjoyed a chat. Tawanna recalls: “She was just so
pleasant and looked really great. I couldn’t resist
telling her that I thought she was the best crier ever
on day-time television.”
For those who have forgotten, Judith Light s tarted
her rise to fame on the legendary soap One Life to
Live. She went on to prime time, starring in the hit
sitcom, Who’s the Boss.
Then last year she revealed her true theatrical
depths, garnering critical Broadway acclaim when
(with bravely shaven head) she played the cancer
victim in the award-winning drama, Wit.
L i g h t’s bre a k f a st partner was, by the way,
Michael Kahn, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare
T h e a t re — w h i ch had passers - by speculating th a t
maybe the star was about to “do” Shakespeare in
DC. Yes and no, is the answer to that.
Yes, Kahn is directing Judith in a major production.
But not in a Shakespearean offering. She’s
playing the lead in Ibsen’s classic, Hedda Gabler,
which opened June 5. Tip: get your tickets fast,
they’re being gobbled up quick.
Inquiring reporter, Maggie Hall, is a regular at
Stompin’ Grounds
Holla is concerned, but hopeful,
that she will find her volunteers. The
young people the program ser ves are
h i g h ly mot i va t e d — 75% go on to
accelerated high schools and 95% go
on to college. Mento rs need only
devote a couple of hours a week to
helping one or a few kids with
English, math or technology.
Meanwhile, learning doesn’t take a
vacation. From July 9 through August
17 HAP will be holding a Summer
Academy for middle-school students,
which will operate from 8 AM to 4
PM, Monday through Friday at Brent.
If you know of any young people
that would benefit from an educational
boost this summer, or yo u
would like to volunteer as a Learning
Mentor this fall, please call Allison
Foster, or the HAP staff, at 202-842-
5116. For more information about the
p ro gram, ch e ck out the orga n i z ation’s
website at www.higheracheivement.
org.
Obituary:
Dr. Marie Mullaney Cassidy
BY VERA HASSNER SHARAV
We are deeply saddened to announce
the untimely, sudden death of Dr.
Marie Mullaney Cassidy, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
64, a founder of the Capitol Hill Day
S chool and early supporter of th e
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
Marie emigrated from Ireland in 1963, and was
one of the longest serving professors at the George
Washington University Medical Center. She was a
prolific researcher and a teacher in the Department
of Physiology and Experimental Medicine, educating
her students in the science and ethics of their
profession.
“She was a much sought-after adviser,” said
William B. Weglicki, MD, interim chairman of the
department. “Her office door was always open to
students. She always found time to meet with them
on a one-to-one basis. That was always a real priority
for her.”
That open door extended to her home, where her
students mingled and bro ke bread with people
from her many interest groups—scientists, journali
sts, acto rs, civic and human rights activist s .
Indeed, Marie Cassidy’s professional and scholarly
achievements don’t begin to reveal the range of her
humanitarian and civic activities and affiliations.
Passionate in her commitment to improving the
lives of others less fortunate, she was a pioneer in
the civil rights and Irish peace movements, and a
leader in the feminist movement who mentored
other women in leadership roles. Most recently she
devoted her energies to CIRCARE, an organization
devoted to improving ethical standards in research
involving people.
“I have always said that no one else ever performed
so many “works of mercy” for so many, and
still found time to enjoy life,” said Sharon Dyer, a
close friend. Her concern for the needs of working
women’s day care needs led Marie Cassidy to help
found the Capitol Hill Day School. She also nourished
local cultural local institutions, including the
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Horizons Theater and
the Woolly Mammoth Theater.
Survivors include her three children, Daragh, a
Hill resident, Padraic and Orlagh, both of New York.
Marie will be deeply missed, but her spirit will
continue to inspire us in our efforts. Our heartfelt
condolences go out to the Mullaney Cassidy family.
Vera Hassner Sharav is president and co-founder of
CIRCARE
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Glad, Glad Grads
Area Schools Say Fare-Thee-Well to Departing
Students.
Early June on Capitol Hill means cheers and tears as
local students graduate and move on from middle
school to high school. This month we feature four
local schools. Next month, there’ll be more.
Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian
HCSC’s eighth grade class of 2001 participated in
promotion exercises held June 1 at 10 AM at the
parish church. Following scripture readings and a
musical selection by the school’s Youth Ensemble,
those assembled heard an address from salutatorian
Derrick Vinson; the valedictorian’s address, given
by Ka rla Nelson, fo l l owed a key n ote speech by
Father Charles Pope, Pastor of St. Thomas More.
In addition to Ms. Nelson and Mr. Vinson, the
graduates are Domonique Smith -Allen, Ezra
A n c rum, Renee Barnes, William Bing, Sheri c e
Clanton, Rhiannon Daniels, Monique Davis, Kayla
Fenwick, Derrick Gorham, India Holcomb, Brian
LeGrand, Ashley Levy, Shauntel Manley, Patreace
Pitts, Ka n e ka Pro p h et, Nikka Shacke l fo rd ,
A n d renee St evens, Brandon Ta l i a fe rro, Diante
Terry, Deborah Witherspoon, David Yarborough,
and Thomas Young.
The Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian grads have been
a c c e pted to a number of schools including
A rchbishop Carroll High School, Bishop
McNamara High School, Duke Ellington School of
the Arts, Elizabeth Seton High School, Gonzaga
High School, Holy Cross Academy, and St. John’s
College High School. Congratulations to them and
their teacher, Mrs. Virginia G. Holley.
St. Peter’s Interparish School
June 1 was also the day for a celebration of the
Eucharist and commencement exercises for the St.
Peter’s Interparish School class of 2 001 at St. Peter’s
Church.
The graduates are John Armon Beasley III, Jesse
B y rd, Jr., Elena Marin Delgado, Anne Mari a
Doherty, Kibwe Dorman, Peter A. Gabauer, Shanee
R. Hughley, Bri t t n ey Camille Johnson, Haime
Johnson, Carole Lynne Jones, Pa t ri ck T. Loft u s ,
M i chael D. McLain II, Cri stina Maria Na ta n i e l ,
Danté Jamaal Owens, Sydney Henri qu e s - Pay n e ,
Oscar Francisco Peña, and Kai Alessandra Somers.
Ad d resses from co-va l e d i c to rians Sydney
Henriques-Payne and Kai Somers followed the presentation
of diplomas and awards. The CHAMPS
award went to John Beasley. Elena Delgado was the
recipient of the PTO Award. Ms. Henriques-Payne
won the Knights of Columbus Essay Contest .
Shanee Hughley and Mr. Beasley were given awards
from the American Legion, and Mr. Beasley and
Peter Gabauer were awarded Citizenship awards.
Graduates who maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher
we re recognized as Presidential Ac a d e m i c
E xcellence Sch o l a rs. They are Ms. Somers, Ms.
Henriques-Payne, Ms. Delgado, Ms. Hughley, Mr.
L o ftus, and Dante Owens. Congratulations and
best wishes to the graduates and their families.
Capitol Hill Day School
The Day School’s class of 2001 moved onward and
upward on June 7.
Congratulations and good luck to Abbey Agresta,
Ro b by Barn ett, Cleo Bell, Aa ron Berger, Mega n
Coyne, Galen DeGraf, Ethan Dyer, David Fegan,
Ethan Foote, Nathaniel Goodman-Johnson, Kouy
Grey, Elena Hoyler, Sarah Isaacson, Gareth Jones,
Anna Liebowitz, Magenta Livengood, Melinda
Mathis, Thomas Meagher, Gabriel Pinkney, Celia
Rhoads, Alex Ru by, Claudia Sch wa rtz, Mari n a
Spencer, M.J. Watkins, and Megan Wheeler.
The graduates will attend the following schools:
B a n n e ke r, Bishop McNa m a ra, Edmund Burke ,
Field, Foxc ro ft, Georgetown Day, Maret ,
Montgomery Blair Communication Arts Program,
National Cath e d ral, Potomac, School Wi th o u t
Walls, Sidwell, and Walt Whitman. Other high
schools where CHDS eighth graders were accepted
include Bullis, Madeira, St. Pa u l ’s (NH), Sandy
Spring Friends, Washington International School,
and the Wilson International Studies Program.
Stuart-Hobson
The Capitol Hill Cluster Middle School St u a rt -
Hobson Campus graduated their largest class ever
at promotional exercises held the evening of June
14 in the Baird Auditorium of the Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History.
Mary C. Pfeiffer is the valedictorian of the class of
2001; Keith M. Andrews and Megan Arias are cosalutatorians,
and Ladarus Martin is recognized as
the most improved of the g raduating class.
Congratulations to Abcede Redentor, Lashante
Addision, D’Angelo L. Akers, Ayeshia Alexander,
Sherri Barber, Christopher Barrett, Preston Thomas
Bates, Christina Bellinger, Diayna Bennett, Tiayna
Bennett, Deirdre D. Bier, Lorenzo Bland, Jr., Xavier
Bonham, Ja’Nece Bradford, Tyrone Brooks, Brittany
I. Brown, Shamir S. Brown, Stephanie Brown, Alicia
Burke, Deonte Bussey, Ebony Champion, Steven
C h a mpion, Amanda Chave rs, Rukia Chav i s ,
Shannon Collier, Stefanie Cytron, Terrell Darden,
Dante L. Davis, Dijon Doy, Ryann Eve rh a rt ,
A n toine Fo rd, Jaylynn Fo rd, Danielle Gilbert ,
Twaniesha M. Glenn, Tyron Green, Karl Grimes,
Shamia Haggins, Terrance Harrington, Khalia Hart,
Joshua Michael Hopkins, Elizabeth Y. Hughes,
James L. Hyson, Candice Jackson, Jershel Johnson,
Thomas Johnson, Brian Jordan, Jr., Jerry Kinney,
Thomas Lee, Vernoica Marrero, Allan McCall-Wali,
M ay ra Y. Megia, Denise Middleton, Wi l l i a m
M i d d l eton, Jr., Bakri Mohamed-Nu r, Ve rs e l l e
Mouton, Lamina Neal, Luke O’Donnell, Robert B.
Petty, Christine L. Prentice, Angelo Reece, Kevin M.
Reeverts, Janai Robinson, Diego A. Romero, Helen
Rush, Rashad R. Scriven, Anton Simms, Elizabeth
O. Smith, Markia Smith, Chri stopher Stova l l ,
Shaquitta Sutton, Joseph E. Taylor, Listina D. Terry,
Chantil Thomas, Charles Thomas, Lashonn Turner,
J o s ette Un d e rwood, Ta n i ka Waddell, No a h
C o n rady Wa rd, Va s h a u n d ra J. Wa rd, Just i n
W h e e l e r, Derri ck White, Brian Williams, Eri c a
Williams, Trevor Witcher, and Jonathan D. Young
III.
Stanton Park Neighborhood
Association Awards Scholarships
On May 30, the Sta n ton Pa rk Neighborh o o d
Association (SPNA) presented scholarship checks to
four DC high school seniors, including one neighborhood
resident, all of whom have high potential
and have overcome difficult circumstances to be
active in their schools, receive their high school
degrees, and gain admission to college.
Funds came from many sources, including contributions
from neighbors, SPNA’s annual dinner,
and gifts from local businesses and merchants that
are auctioned or raffled off at the dinner. SPNA has
given 35 scholarships since 1991.
Elizabeth Dada, from Cardozo HS, will attend St.
Mary’s College of Maryland and be in the pre-med
biology program. She mentored and tutored other
students in science and math, and vo l u n t e e re d
with several community aid groups.
Ka thy Delcid, from Cardozo HS, will attend
George Mason University, and intends to teach elementary
school. She volunteered at several elementary
schools, in after-school homework programs,
and in the model United Nations program
run by the U.S. State Department, and was secretary
of her senior class.
Terrell Douglas, from Eastern HS, will major in
computer sciences at the University of the District
of Columbia. He is the winner of the SPNA Henson
Award, named for a local resident who helped the
children of the Stanton Park neighborhood. The
Henson Award is based on the efforts of a long-time
supporter of the scholarship program.
Sheree Hilliard, from Ballou HS, will be in the
pre-med biology program at Virginia Commonwealth
University; she hopes to establish a medical
clinic in Anacostia. She was vice president of her
senior class, tutored other students, and was active
in the Future Business Leaders of America.
C a p i t a lK i d s
BY PAT TY CURRAN
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Capitol Hill Teachers Make a Boy’s
Wish Come True
On a balmy Saturday evening a f ew weeks ago, the
Make-A-Wish Foundation held a benefit concert to
make the dream of a terminally ill young boy come
true. An audience of over 1500, mostly students
from Rockville’s Wootton High, which was the conc
e rt site, danced, th rew Frisbees, and list e n e d
e n th u s i a st i c a l ly to the eve n i n g ’s enterta i n m e n t ,
provided by Capitol Hill’s own Serious Lee and
M a ryl a n d ’s O.A.R. The benefit raised aro u n d
$24,000 (one of the largest donations the Make A
Wish Foundation has received), which covered the
cost of sending young Mikey, a Maryland boy in
need of a liver transplant, on a vacation to
Australia.
Serious Lee, the first act on the bill, is an up-andcoming
band with deep Capitol Hill roots.
Four of the six band members work for Capitol
Hill Arts Workshop: Billy Friebele, the band’s bass
player, teaches sculpture and graffiti art, and is the
director of one of the summer camps; guitarist and
singer Chad Christian teaches painting and heads
the sports and recreation program of the summer
camps; Julia Robey, keyboards and vocals—a Hill
native—is the Program Coordinator at the Capitol
Hill Arts Workshop; and drummer Darryl Moran is
the newly appointed Te chnical Dire c tor fo r
CHAW’s Theater Alliance. Also in the band are guita
r / vo c a l i st, Eric Fuller, and perc u s s i o n i st, Ian
Stevenson.
The band met and formed in 1998, the result of
several friends getting together to play music while
studying at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Serious
Lee got its start playing frequent gigs at local bars
and community events in St. Mary’s County. The
band’s blend of rock, blues, funk, bluegrass and jazz
styles continues to mature—you can catch them
playing several times monthly in the Washington
area.
Serious Lee’s next show will be June 23 at the
Berwyn Café in College Park, MD.
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I FOUND MY Summer THRILL ON CAPITOL HILL…NOW SHOWING:
THEATER ALLIANCE and ACTOR'S THEATER OF WASHINGTON presents
BEL AGE a new play by SAM SCHWARTZ, JR.
Gay Plays for Grownups Series, Year Six!
June 8 - 30 $20. Call or go to www.chaw.org for show times and for tickets
IOLANTHE
a “lavenderized” version of the Gilbert & Sullivan favorite, co-produced with The Lesbian &
Gay Chorus of Washington and The Different Drummers. July 7 - July 21 $15
SHIRLEY VALENTINE starring CAREN ANTON and LOVE LETTERS starring
ADELE ROBEY and JAMES FOSTER in rep July 25 - August 11 $20
ARTS IN THE PARK!
Join us for seven fridays of entertainment in Lincoln Park, July 6 - August 17, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Bring a blanket and a picnic. Thanks to the CHAMPS Community Foundation and the Lois
and Richard England Family foundation for their support of this program.
IN THE GALLERY:
Annual Student Show featuring Drawings, Watercolor, Photography and Ceramics.
Congratualations to VIRGINIA BRADLEY, winner of the first annual MAUREEN YONIS
WATERCOLOR AWARD and to REBECCA APPLE, winner of the VISUAL ARTS MERIT AWARD!
FILMS ON THE HILL
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1927) & EVANGELINE (1929) Fri., June 18, 7 p.m. $5
TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932) Fri., June 29, 7:30 p.m. $5
SUNDOWN RIDER (1932) & WHITE EAGLE (1932) Mon., July 9, 7 p.m. $5
HAUNTED SPOOKS (1920) & THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920)
Mon., July 16, 7:00 p.m. $5
K i d s Write Po et ry !
Call for Submissions
Submit Your Poems for Voice of The Hill’s KidsWrite Poetry Issue
It’s that time again: The July issue of Voice of The Hill will feature Capitol Hill kid poets and their works.
Parents! Start digging through those gold-starred papers!
Who: Students in grades prekindergarten through 12th
What: Poems only, no prose, please. Poems must not have been published previously in Voice of The Hill.
When: Deadline for submissions is Monday, July 2, 2001
Where: Submit poems to:
Voice of the Hill, KidsWrite
c/o Patty Curran
1371 A St., NE
Washington, DC 20002
Or via e-mail to Pdtki@aol.com
Submissions of poet ry should include ch i l d ’s
name, address, phone number, school attended
and grade as of June 2001, and the name and
phone number of a parent or guardian.
Poems not chosen for publication in the print
edition of the newspaper will be featured in a special
section of our on-line edition during th e
months of July and August.
Serious Lee rocks at the Make A Wish fundraiser. the
band includes four teachers from the Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop: Capitol Hill born-and-bred Julia Robey, Billy
Friebele, Darryl Moran, and Chad Christian. The band
is rounded out by Ian Stevenson and Eric Fuller.
V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Market Baby Has Baby
Mel Jr. Has 7 Lb 3 Oz Chick
June 8. We hate to admit that we remember a time
when about all you could see of Mel Inman, Jr. was
the top of his little head and a pair of small hands
tipping the Friday night fryer onto the scale at
Market Poultry. That seems like only yesterday.
On We d n e s d ay
May 31, at 9:36AM,
Mel Jr had a chick of
his own. His wife
Myra gave bir th to 7
pound 3 ounce son,
Rommel, at Prov idence
Hospita l .
Beaming papa says
mom and baby came
home June 1, and
Ro m m e l ’s terri f i c ,
“He never cries, he
just sleeps and eats.”
This is a first for
grandpapa too. Mel,
Sr. says “I thought my son would never do this. He
said, ‘Maybe at about the 35-year mark.’ And then
along came Myra, and it was over.”
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tor. Let her help you brag about your kids! Please send
news from your school, or news about your children, to
Patty at: 1371 A St., NE, Washington, DC 20002, or
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cation.
Kevin McGrann Scores a Lacrosse
Scholarship
L i fe-long Hill resident and Peabody Elementa ry
School and St. Peter’s Interparish School graduate,
Kevin McGrann, has been awarded a lacrosse athl
etic sch o l a rship to St. Joseph’s Un i ve rsity in
Philadelphia, PA. Kevin will enroll at St. Joseph’s
this fall and compete
as a member of th e
H aw ks, the sch o o l ’s
varsity lacrosse team.
Kevin, a 4-year varsity
lacrosse starter at
Bishop O’Connell
High School in
Arlington, Virginia, is
c u rre n t ly team captain
—and leads th e
team in total scoring.
This season he set an
O’Connell High
S chool single ga m e
scoring record in the
Virginia Independent
School State Championships, scoring 10 points (5
goals plus 5 assists) in the semifinal game. He is also
number two in the school’s all-time career points
records, posting 171 points (94 goals and 76 assists)
over four years of varsity competition.
Atlas Theater Project Summer
Storytelling Series
Thanks to a generous CHAMPS Foundation grant,
the Atlas Theater Project will be producing a 3-
Saturday storytelling series at Douglas Methodist
Church at 11th and H Streets, NE. Starting on July
14 and continuing on July 21 and 28, there will be
hour-long sessions at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. by
p ro fessional sto ry t e l l e rs spinning tales fro m
C a ribbean, Asian, Afri c a n -A m e rican and Na t i ve
American traditions. These storytelling hours are
aimed at children and their families and are presented
as part of the Atlas Theater Project’s mission
to bring the performing arts and arts education into
the community. Pe rfo rmances are all pay- w h a t -
you-can. For more info rmation, please see
www.voiceofthehill.com./Atlas
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invite you to
Jazz
in
June
You bring the food,
we’ll supply the Jazz!
Join us on Wednesdays in June
at the Upper Senate Park (June
20 concert is in Longworth Food
Court) from 1 - 2 p.m.for
lunchtime concerts of jazz standards
performed by the faculty
and students of the
Levine School of Music.
Levine
School of Music
The Hill
The Honorable Robert Bennett
The Honorable Edward Kennedy
The Honorable John Conyers
The Honorable Norman Dicks
The Honorable Bart Gordon
The Honorable Felix Grucci
The Honorable Jane Harman
The Honorable Connie Morella
front, serving the needs of 30,000 daytime
employees, hundreds of thousands of annual
tourists, in addition to local residents. To facilitate
these uses requires a transportation
strategy that minimizes congestion and maximizes
access.
We are writing to express deep concern
about the Metro bus configuration proposed by
DMJM/Frederic R. Harris, Inc. at the public
meeting held on the evening of May 23, 2001.
The consultants’ approach will seriously
impede the local effort to revitalize 8th Street
SE by introducing excessive bus zones that
will encourage bus idling, increase traffic congestion,
and reduce the number of angled
parking spaces created through the reconfiguration
of the roadway.
In addition, we are gravely disappointed by
the backwards and shortsighted approach to
answering the community’s concerns about
the bus stop located in the 400 block of 8th
Street SE. We would like to see a full analysis
of this bus stop location, conducted…
While WMATA claims that the eight bus
stops located in the study area “fall within
industry guidelines for stop spacing in urban
areas” we would like to point out that one
block immediately north across Pennsylvania
Avenue there exist two additional bus stops.
This frequency—five bus stops per side within
essentially six blocks—seems excessive. The
FTA’s BRT Reference Guide on Stop Spacing,
Location, and Design encourages twin goals of
reducing stop numbers and improving service…
Instead of realizing improved efficiency,
however, the consultants have effectively preserved
all extant consecutive block stops AND
recommend doubling the bus zones to accommodate
two buses. We believe that the minor
inconvenience of walking an additional block
is far less substantial than the rider delay and
congestion that arise from buses stopping
repeatedly within a short span. In addition, the
noise and air pollution created by two stacking
bus zones on two consecutive blocks is unacceptable
to the MainStreet project, which
seeks to improve the environment through
measures such as low impact development
and better urban planning. In particular, the
potential to have four buses idling underneath
the freeway cancels out all of our efforts to reestablish
8th Street as a unified corridor by
redefining this space to encourage pedestrian
access, in addition to its regrettable environmental
impacts.
We do not believe that the volume of passenger
traffic at this site warrants the loading of
two buses at a time anywhere in the corridor.
The double zone length, in our opinion, seems
designed to provide idling time to reschedule
the buses. In addition to the environmental
implications, we view the proposal as a setback
to our commercial revitalization efforts.
Idling buses along 8th Street will block visual
access to the stores while removing desperately
needed parking spaces to serve the businesses.
The Board of Directors strongly urge DPW
to take the following into account with
respect to DMJM/Frederic R. Harris’s proposed
approach to MetroBus issues:
1. The Capitol Hill community and the
MainStreet Board oppose any expansion of bus
zones to accommodate double bus lengths and
encourage bus idling.
2. To promote the revitalization of the historic
commercial corridor, we encourage the
maximum creation of angled parking possible
while maintaining traffic flow and vehicular
safety.
3. The bus stop cur rently located in the
southbound 400 block of 8th Street SE should
be moved to the Eastern Market Metro Plaza
to facilitate passenger access and minimize
congestion on 8th Street. The MainStreet
Board feels strongly that bus riders require
easy, convenient access from Eastern Market
Metro to their bus routes. Eastern Market
Metro Plaza is a transportation hub, and the
logical point for rail riders to switch to their
bus route.
4. Realizing that the Eastern Market Metro
Plaza is beyond the scope of the 8th Street
project and the present metro plaza configuration
does not allow a bus zone along southbound
8th Street, we advocate that an appropriate
design solution be developed as part of
WMATA’s regional bus study. In the meantime,
we feel that WMATA should direct passengers
to the bus stop at Hine Junior High School and
eliminate the stop presently contributing to
the congestion in the 400 block of 8th Street
SE.
5. Based on the public comments and discussions
held with our many partners, we
believe this letter expresses a community
majority view on this sensitive issue.
Unfortunately, a clear majority of the public
participating in the May 23 meeting felt
strongly that the consultant team did not
meaningfully take into account their concerns
or respond to their feedback. We very much
appreciate your considering our views when
revising the final recommendations made to
the Federal Highway Administration under the
terms of your agreement with them.
Sincerely yours,
LINDA PARKE GAL LAGHER AND
GEORGE A. DIDDEN, I I I
Barracks Row MainStreet Co-Chairs
VoiceMail continued from page 3
Garfield Park ribbon cutting
V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Exhibit
Stampin’ the Future at the Postal Museum
Now on view: 99 winning art designs that were actually
issued as postage stamps. Children ages 8 to 12
from all over the world were invited to participate in
this contest, which was originally sponsored by the
U.S. Postal Service in 1998. Nearly 4-million children
from 30 countries ended up participating, with
120,000 entries by kids in the U.S. alone. Through
August. 2 Mass Ave., NE.
Events
Friday, June 15
Marine Band Parade: Celebrate the Marine Barracks
bicentennial! Every Friday night through August
there’s precision marching and music at the Barracks,
8th and I, SE. Admission is free and open to the public,
but reservations are strongly suggested. 8th & I
Sts, SE. For recorded parade information, call 433-
6060 or visit ww.mbw.usmc.mil.
Sunday, June 17
ScienTERRific Sunday: Solar Energy: The sun is energ y.
It keeps us warm in the summer and helps plants
g ro w. It can even power our cars and cook our food.
C a p t u re the sun’s energy and find out the work we can
do with it, including toasting marshmallows! Ages 4-7:
11 AM & 2 PM. Ages 8 and up: Noon & 3 PM. Capital
C h i l d ren’s Museum. 800 3rd St., NE. 675-4120.
Monday, June 18.
The new kids’ librarian starts work today at the
Southeast Librar y. Come give her a welcome hug and
find out about the Summerquest Reading Contest. Big
prizes for big readers!
Tuesday, June 19
Toddler Story Time: Stories, songs, films and more! 3-
5 year-olds with an adult. 10 AM. NE Library. 7th and
MD, NE. 698-3299.
• Storytelling and arts and crafts at 7PM. SE
Library. 7th at the Eastern Market Metro Plaza.
Wednesday, June 20
After-school movies for 3-10 years. 4PM. NE Librar y.
7th and MD, NE. 698-3299.
Saturday, June 23
Cartoon Animation: Can you make your drawings
come to life? Pick up a pencil! Grab some paper!
Learn the secrets of making your very own “Saturday
morning” cartoon and create your own animated
short. 11 AM, 1 PM, 2:30 PM, and 4 PM. Capital
Children’s Museum. 800 3rd St., NE. 675-4120.
• Films for 3 to 10 year-olds are based on children’s
literature. 11:30 AM. NE Library. 7th and MD,
NE. 698-3299.
Sunday, June 24
Coyote and Chicken: Will you be the predator or the
prey? Learn about this traditional game using only
chalk and stones. 11 AM, 2 PM, and 4 PM. Space is
limited. Sign up at the front desk. Capital Children’s
Museum. 800 3rd St., NE. 675-4120.
Tuesday, June 26
Toddler Story Time: Stories, songs, films and more! 3-
5 year-olds with an adult. 10 AM. NE Library. 7th and
MD, NE. 698-3299.
Wednesday, June 27
After school movies. 3-10 years can tune in at 4PM.
NE Library. 7th and MD, NE. 698-3299.
Saturday, June 30
Second Annual June Fest at the SE Library! Live music
bands, scavenger hunt and storytelling for kids, popcorn,
and REAL cotton candy, not that bagged junk.
The library is getting a machine at Frager’s. Sharie
Vollin, Branch Librarian, calls June Fest, “The day we
give back to the community for honoring us by coming
to read!” Noon to 4PM. Free. Southeast Library, 7th
St., SE at the Eastern Market Metro stop.
• Films for 3 to 10 year-olds based on children’s literature.
11:30 AM. NE Librar y. 7th and MD, NE. 698-
3299.
Tuesday, July 3
Toddler Story Time: Stories, songs, films and more! 3-
5 year-olds with an adult. 10 AM. NE Library. 7th and
MD, NE. 698-3299.
• Perfect picnic! The NSO Dress Rehearsal for the
July 4 concert is at 7:30PM on the Capitol grounds.
Wednesday, July 4
The Rilly BIG Show. National Symphony Orchestra’s
July 4th Concert on the Capitol grounds—and the fireworks,
of course. 8PM. (Rain date, July 5).
Friday, July 6
Arts in the Park. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
begins their Friday night summer entertainment series
in Lincoln Park. Yet another fine (early) picnic opportunity.
5-6:30PM. 547-6839 for program info.
Monday, July 9
Vacation Bible School presents, SunCreek Junction—
they call this camp “a rip-roaring adventure in a western
gold-mining town.” Songs, skits, games—and “discover
5 gold nuggets of truth for growing as God’s
children.” 9:30AM to 12:30PM through July 13. Preschool
to 6th grade. Washington Community
Fellowship, 907 MD Ave NE. 543-1926.
Tuesday, July 10
Toddler Story Time: Stories, songs, films and more! 3-
5 year-olds with an adult. 10 AM. NE Library. 7th and
MD, NE. 698-3299.
•Storytelling and arts and crafts at 7PM. SE
Library. 7th at the Eastern Market Metro Plaza.
Wednesday, July 11
After school films for 3-10 year-olds. 4 PM. NE Librar y.
7th and MD, NE. 698-3299.
Friday, July 12
Arts in the Park. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
Entertainment in Lincoln Park. 5-6:30PM. 547-6839.
Tuesday, July 17
Attention Science Fiction Buffs! Gerry Anderson was
king of sci-fi TV in the 60s and 70s. His supermarionation
show, Thunderbirds, revolutionized puppet handling
and model special effects. Tonight, three great
films, including Thunderbirds Are Go , at the Library of
Congress, Pickford Theater. Free at 6:30. See Adult
calendar, June 19, for admission info.
• Storytelling and arts and crafts at 7PM. SE
Library. 7th at the Eastern Market Metro Plaza.
• Toddler Story Time: Stories, songs, films and
more! 3-5 year-olds with an adult. 10 AM. NE Library.
7th and MD, NE. 698-3299.
Wednesday, July 18
After school movies for 3-10 year-olds. 4 PM. NE
Library. 7th and MD, NE. 698-3299.
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V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Sunday 7.8.01
Get in a circle with your
friends. Make up a line of
nonsense. Whisper it to
one, ask them to pass it
on. See what comes back
to you.
Monday 7.9.01
Bring your dreams to
work.
Tuesday 7.10.01
Pour your energy into
your Life.
Wednesday 7.11.01
Look at something you do
every day. Think about
doing it differently.
Thursday 7.12.01
When you are going home
after work, pay close
attention to what you ar e
doing.
Friday 7.13.01
If you’re making decisions
near 8 PM, maybe
shopping, start browsing.
Stop buying. Become a
looker. Take notes. If you
really want it, wait til
tomorrow.
Saturday 7.14.01
Take some time to eat a
nice breakfast. “Nice” to
me means healthy. What
does “nice” mean to you?
Sunday 7.15.01
If you cared to get anything
done today, you
might be successful.
Monday 7.16.01
Wait til after 2:30 PM for
purchases over $100, or
BIG decisions, or to sign
important documents.
Tuesday 7.17.01
Listen to your intuition
when you get up this
morning
Wednesday 7.18.01
Avoid impulsive decisions,
especially while driving.
This applies as well eat -
ing, shopping, even talking.
Stay alert. Stay conscious.
Thursday 7.19.01
Drink lots of water; avoid
caffeine. Three or four
times today, stand up and
stretch. Take big deep
breaths.
Ajai once lived nine years
in a yoga ashram. Now he
lives on Capitol Hill,
teaches yoga, and stud -
ies astrology and cats.
May you be happy,
Ajai
Art Calendar:
Second Saturday is July 14.
The Hill’s own gallery-hop
and pub-crawl presents art in
usual—and unusual—venues.
The bike shop? 5-7PM—
Free. Look for the posters
along PA Ave., 7th St., SE
and Barracks Row—8th St.,
SE. Wine, hors d’ouvres, din -
ing discounts, more. Check
in at www.voiceofthehill.com
the week of the event for a
rundown on all the action.
Taylor and Sons Fine Art.
“Tabletop Vacations,” oil
paintings by Michele Taylor,
are on view 10AM to 6PM,
Tuesday through Saturday at
the gallery, 660 PA Ave., SE.
Bird-In-Hand Bookstore and
Gallery. “The Art of Dario
Sholis”, acrylics & lithographs,
runs through June
30. This is the artist’s first
show in the DC area in seven
years. 323 7th St., SE.
Capitol Hill Art League.
Student show at the Capitol
Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th
St., SE
EXHIBITS
The Library of Congress
The Empire that Was
Russia: The Prokudin-
Gorskii Photographic
Record Recreated
New exhibit in the South
Gallery of the Great Hall of
the Jefferson Building
includes 58 color images
taken throughout Imperial
Russia from 1907 to 1915.
The photographs, which have
been digitally reproduced for
the first time from the origi -
nal glass plates, have been
selected from the Prokudin-
Gorskii Collection of some
1,800 negatives that were
purchased by the Library in
1948. The exhibition will be
on view through August 11,
from 10 AM to 5 PM,
Monday-Saturday.
By Securing to Authors:
Copyright, Commerce, and
Creativity in America
Check out a wide range of
items that have been copy -
righted in America, including
the original Ken and Barbie
dolls, Martin Luther King,
Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech
and the statue of the
“Maltese Falcon” that was
used in the film of the same
name. Madison Building.
Open indefinitely
Here to Stay: The Legacy
of George and Ira Gershwin
The George and Ira Gershwin
Room is a permanent exhibition
area for materials from
the Library’s George and Ira
Gershwin Collection, the
world’s preeminent resource
for the documentary legacy
of the Gershwin brothers.
Includes: George’s piano and
desk, Ira’s typing table and
typewriter, a self-portrait oil
painting of each brother,
handwritten musical manuscripts
and other documents
that chronicle their lives and
careers. Jefferson Building.
Open indefinitely.
American Treasures of the
Library of Congress
240 “American Treasures”
represent the breadth and
depth of the Library’s
American historical items.
Thomas Jefferson Building.
For additional information,
call 707-3834.
Folger Shakespeare
Library
Designer Bookbinders in
North America
Designer Bookbinders is the
principal bookbinding society
in Great Britain and one of
the foremost in the world
devoted to the craft. It has
been many years since
Designer Bookbinders has
exhibited the work of its
members in the United
States. Their current ambitious
exhibition begins a
seven-venue tour with this
exhibit at the Folger Librar y.
Over forty bindings, representing
the best of British
fine bookbinding, are on dis -
play. Through August 2001.
EVENTS
Friday, June 15
The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
• Summer Music on the
Hill presents choral music
from the Woodley Ensemble.
Varied program includes
works from the 16th
Century—to the present.
Free at St. Joseph’s Church,
2nd and C, NE, 7 PM.
• Marine Band Parades:
Celebrate the Marine
Barracks bicentennial! This
series features precision
marching and music ever y
Friday evening through
August. Admission is free
and open to the public, but
reservations are strongly
suggested. 8th & I Sts, SE.
For recorded parade informa -
tion, call 433-6060 or visit
www.mbw.usmc.mil.
• US Army Band Concert.
Free, on the US Capitol’s
west front plaza. 8 PM
(weather permitting).
Saturday, June 16
The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 4PM and 7:30 PM.
545 7th St., SE. For information
contact CHAW at 547-
6839 or visit www.chaw.org.
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S TA R RY
DAYS
Your Astrological Guide
to the Pursuit of
Happiness
BY AJAI ©
Got something you want
to do? This calendar
helps you get things
done, and it works for
everyone! There are more
Planets in Astrology then
just your Sun Sign. The
pull of all of the Planets
impacts every one of us
regardless of our birthday,
and using this calendar
can help us all in our
Pursuit of Happiness.
Friday 6.15.01
There might be some
excitement around 3 PM.
Stay present emotionally,
and go with the flow if
you can make that work
for you.
Saturday 6.16.01
Massage your feet as you
prepare for bed tonite.
Sunday 6.17.01
Give Pop a call a few minutes
after 6 PM.
Monday 6.18.01
Get out of bed and on
your feet by 6:15 AM.
Tuesday 6.19.01
Welcome unusual ideas
all morning.
Wednesday 6.20.01
Give yourself a test: How
long can you think of one
single thing?
Thursday 6.21.01
Solar Eclipse today. Study
the I Ching. Have your
chart read. Peruse a
deck of Tarot cards. Call
home. Start over at a
new address.
Friday 6.22.01
Buy only groceries today,
wait until tomor row for
other purchases.
Saturday 6.23.01
Give someone a bouquet
of fresh flowers. Hugs ar e
an acceptable substitute.
Sunday 6.24.01
Light a candle in front of
a framed photo of your -
self, and say a prayer.
Monday 6.25.01
Make note of everything
that captures your inter -
est. Review at the end of
the day.
Tuesday 6.26.01
Clean behind your stove.
Wednesday 6.27.01
Don’t pay more than
$100 for anything until
after you eat lunch.
Thursday 6.28.01
Anchors aweigh! Mercur y
has turned Direct.
Explore recent ideas.
Friday 6.29.01
This eve, slow down to
fully experience your emotions,
then act decisively!
Saturday 6.30.01
Part of the beauty of Life
is that it constantly
brings us new experiences.
Fresh opportuni -
ties! Adapt & adopt.
Sunday 7.1.01
The thoughts we think
before bed have a pr ofound
influence upon our
sleep. Tonite think
thoughts of peace and
goodwill.
Monday 7.2.01
Note ideas you get this
afternoon.
Tuesday 7.3.01
This eve’s meal is espe -
cially propitious to prac -
tice chewing our food.
Wednesday 7.4.01
Paste a smile on your
face, and be a by golly
jolly Yankee Doodle
Dandy!
Thursday 7.5.01
Some people are ticklish.
Some people aren’t. After
lunch find out who’s who.
Friday 7.6.01
If you were an inventor,
what would you invent? In
other words, what do you
think the world is missing
today?
Saturday 7.7.01
Uncles are cool. Hang
with yours.
V O I C E of the Hill /June 15, 2001
Monday, June 18
Films on the Hill: While the
City Sleeps (1928) and
Evangeline (1929). Tickets
are $5. $25 discount pass
for 6 films is available. 7
PM. Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop. 545 7th Street,
SE. 547-6839 or filmsonthehill@
yahoo.com
• US Navy Band Concert:
Free, at 8PM on the
Capitol’s west front plaza.
Tuesday, June 19
Super Tuesday Grand Finale.
Lots of “5-star” reviews at
Amazon.com for The Integrity
Moment: Making Powerful
Choices in Life. “I was transformed,”
begins one. Hear
author Linda Tobey tonight at
the Southeast Library at
7:30PM. 7th St., SE at the
Eastern Market Metro Plaza.
(After this, the author talk
series takes a break until
September. )
•Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
•Film: Leningrad Cowboys
Go America (Villealfa, 1989).
Mack Sennett meets rock ‘n’
roll in an absurd saga of a
ragtag band from the tundra.
Library of Congress, Pickford
Theater. 7 PM. Reservations
may be made by phone,
beginning one week before
any given show. Call 707-
5677 during business hours
(Monday-Friday, 9AM to 4
PM). Reserved seats must
be claimed at least 10 min -
utes before show time, after
which standbys will be
admitted to unclaimed seats.
All programs are free, but
seating is limited to 64
seats. The Mary Pickford
Theater is located on the
third floor of the Library of
Congress Madison building.
• US Air Force Band
Concert: Free, at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza.
Wednesday, June 20
Treasure Talk: Join a Librar y
of Congress curator each
Wednesday at noon in the
“American Treasures” exhibition
to learn more about
some of the individual items
drawn from every corner of
the Library’s collections —
the story behind what makes
them especially interesting
and significant. Southwest
Gallery of the Jefferson
Building. Contact: (202)
707-9203.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
• Concert: Steven Blier
and vocalists Sylvia McNair
and Hal Cazalet explore the
lyric antics of comic novelist
P.G. Wodehouse. Coolidge
Auditorium. 8 PM. All Librar y
of Congress concerts are
free, but tickets are required
(maximum: two per person).
Free tickets are distributed
by Ticket Master (432-SEAT)
for a nominal service charge.
Tickets for popular events
are claimed quickly, but
there are often empty seats
at concert time. Interested
patrons are encouraged to
try for standby seats by
appearing at the will-call
desk in the Jefferson
Building by 6:30 PM on con -
cert evenings. 707-5502.
å US Marine Band Concert.
Free, at 8PM on the
Capitol’s west front plaza.
(Weather permitting).
Thursday, June 21
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• Film: Triple Cross
(Cineurop, 1967). What
makes this film worthy of
attention is that, by inadvertence,
it is a spoof of all spy
movies. Library of Congress,
Madison Building. 7 PM. See
June 19 entry information.
707-5677.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
•Capitol Hill Restoration
Society Annual Meeting—
plus a forum on hazardous
waste disposal. St. James
Church, 222 8th Street, NE.
Doors will open at 7PM.
Friday, June 22
Summer Music on the Hill
presents a program of chamber
music for brass quintets
and harp by Dutch composer,
Jan Koetsier. Free at St.
Josephs Church, 2nd and C
Streets, NE. 7PM.
• The Promoter (Rank,
1952) and Captain’s
Paradise (British Lion,
1953). In tribute to the late
Sir Alec Guinness, two sel -
dom seen comedies from the
‘50s are screened. Library of
Congress, Madison Building.
6 PM. See June 19 entr y
information. 707-5677.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
• US Army Band Concert.
Free, on the US Capitol’s
west front plaza. 8 PM
(weather permitting).
• Marine Band Parade:
Celebrate the Marine
Barracks bicentennial! This
series features precision
marching and music ever y
Friday evening through
August. Admission is free
and open to the public, but
reservations are strongly
suggested. 8th & I Sts, SE.
For recorded parade informa -
tion, call 433-6060 or visit
www.mbw.usmc.mil.
Saturday, June 23
Celebrating 10 Great Years.
The Erika Thimey Dance and
Theater Co hosts “a festive”
buffet-reception in celebration
of their 10th anniversary.
The do’s at the
Washington Navy Yard, 9th
and M St., SE, from 5-
8pm. Donation $50. For
reservations and information:
543-2981.
• Daylily Day at the
National Arboretum. 100s of
varieties on show—and for
sale—from the members of
the Natl Daylily Club.
Everything you ever wanted
to know, they say. 10AM to
2PM. Tours of the collection,
11AM to 1PM. 3501 NY
Ave., NE. Free.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 4PM and 7:30 PM.
545 7th St., SE. For information
contact CHAW at 547-
6839 or visit www.chaw.org.
Monday, June 25
US Navy Band Concert: Free,
at 8PM on the Capitol’s
west front plaza.
Tuesday, June 26
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• Three films by director
Satyajit Ray are on tonight’s
program: Rabindranath
Tagore (Govt. of India,
1961); Two (New Mark
International, 1964); and
Samapti (Ray Prod., 1961).
Library of Congress, Madison
Building. 6:30 PM. See June
19 entry information. 707-
5677.
• US Air Force Band
Concert: Free, at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza.
Wednesday, June 27
Treasure Talk: Join a Librar y
of Congress curator each
Wednesday at noon in the
“American Treasures” exhibition
to learn more about
some of the individual items
drawn from every corner of
the Library’s collections—
the story behind what makes
them especially interesting
and significant. Southwest
Gallery of the Jefferson
Building. Contact: (202)
707-9203.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age . 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
• US Marine Band
Concert. Free, at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza. (Weather permitting).
• Soccer: U.S. Open Cup –
Second Round. Time: TBA.
RFK Stadium. For tickets
and info visit
www.dcunited.com.
Thursday, June 28
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol. Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• Borsalino (Adel/
Marianne/Mars, 1970). Two
small-time crooks become
fast friends and after a
series of fistfights, shootouts
and car chases are crowned
kings of the Marseilles
underworld. Library of
Congress, Pickford Theater.
7 PM. See June 19 entry for
admission details.
• The “tone is unfailingly
sweet, and [Sam Schwartz]
can write funny dialogue,”
says the Washington Post of
the latest production by the
Capitol Hill Theater Alliance,
Bel Age. 7:30 PM. 545 7th
St., SE. For information con -
tact CHAW at 547-6839 or
visit www.chaw.org.
Friday, June 29
Films on the Hill: Red Hot
Riding Hood (1943) and
Trouble in Paradise (1932).
Tickets are $5. $25 discount
pass for 6 films is available.
7 PM. Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop. 545 7th Street,
SE. 547-6839 or filmsonthehill@
yahoo.com
• Film: WR-the Mysteries
of the Organism (Neoplanta
Film, 1971). An avant-garde
film inspired by a book called
Dialectical Materialism and
Psychoanalysis might not
sound like a fun night out.
But throw in Dusan
Makavejev’s insatiable joie
de vivr e and you have one of
the most entertaining
movies ever to come out of
the Eastern Bloc. Library of
Congress, Madison Building.
7 PM. See June 19 entr y
information. 707-5677.
• US Army Band Concert.
Free, on the US Capitol’s
west front plaza. 8 PM
(weather permitting).
• Marine Band Parades:
Celebrate the Marine
Barracks bicentennial! This
series features precision
marching and music ever y
Friday evening through
August. Admission is free
and open to the public, but
reservations are strongly
suggested. 8th & I Sts, SE.
For recorded parade information,
call 433-6060 or visit
www.mbw.usmc.mil.
Saturday, June 30
Second Annual Junefest at
the SE Library! Live music
bands, scavenger hunt and
storytelling for kids, popcorn,
and REAL cotton
candy, not that bagged junk.
The library is getting a
machine at Frager’s. Sharie
Vollin, Branch Librarian, calls
Junefest, “The day we give
back to the community for
honoring us by coming to
read!” Noon to 4PM. Free.
Southeast Library, 7th St.,
SE at the Eastern Market
Metro stop.
• Navy Yard/Southeast
Federal Center Walk. The
Sierra Club “Restore the
Core” campaign is focusing
this year on the Anacostia
River. This walking tour lets
you see close up the cur rent
sorry state of our waterfront.
10 AM-Noon: Meet at the
Navy Yard Metro station
(Green Line), at M and Half
Streets Exit. ) Info. 547-
3689.
• Soccer: DC United vs.
Colorado Rapids. 7:30 PM.
RFK Stadium. For tickets
and info visit
www.dcunited.com.
• Last Day! The “tone is
unfailingly sweet, and [Sam
Schwartz] can write funny
dialogue,” says the
Washington Post of the latest
production by the Capitol
Hill Theater Alliance, Bel
Age. 4PM and 7:30 PM. 545
7th St., SE. For information
contact CHAW at 547-6839
or visit www.chaw.org.
Monday, July 2
NSO rehearsal for the July 4
concert. 7:30PM, Capitol
grounds.
Tuesday, July 3
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
NSO Dress Rehearsal for
the July 4 concert. 7:30PM,
Capitol grounds.
Wednesday, July 4
And the Drums go Bang!
National Symphony
Orchestra’s Independence
Day Concert on the Capitol
grounds—and the fireworks,
of course. 8PM. (Rain date,
July 5).
Thursday, July 5
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
Friday, July 6
US Army Band Concert.
Free, on the US Capitol’s
west front plaza. 8 PM
(weather permitting).
• Providence (France 3,
1977). Dir.: Alain Resnais.
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, David
Warner, Ellen Burstyn, John
Gielgud. The film Gielgud
called the “most exciting” of
his career. Library of
Congress, Mary Pickford
Theater. 7PM. See June 19
for admission details.
• Marine Band Parades:
Celebrate the Marine
Barracks bicentennial! This
series features precision
marching and music ever y
Friday evening through
August. Admission is free
and open to the public, but
reservations are strongly
suggested. 8th & I Sts, SE.
For recorded parade informa -
tion, call 433-6060 or visit
www.mbw.usmc.mil.
Saturday, July 7
DC Open-Air Farmer’s Market
and Flea Market. RFK
Stadium, Lot # 6. 6 AM.
• Soccer: DC United vs.
Los Angeles Galaxy. 8PM.
RFK Stadium. For tickets
and info visit
www.dcunited.com.
Monday, July 9
US Navy Band Concert: Free
on the U.S. Capitol’s west
front plaza. 8 PM (weather
permitting).
Tuesday, July 10
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol. Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• The Outside Man
(Cite/Mondial, 1972). Jean-
Louis Trintignant, Ann-
Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie
Dickinson. After assassinating
a Mafia boss in Los
Angeles, a Frenchman
becomes the target of a
mysterious killer. Library of
Congress, Pickford Theater.
8PM. See June 19 for admis -
sion info. Free
• US Air Force Band
Concert: Free, at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza.
Wednesday, July 11
Treasure Talk: Join a Librar y
of Congress curator each
Wednesday at noon in the
“American Treasures” exhibition
to learn more about
some of the individual items
drawn from every corner of
the Library’s collections —
the story behind what makes
them especially interesting
and significant. Southwest
Gallery of the Jefferson
Building. Contact: (202)
707-9203.
• US Marine Band
Concerts: Free at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza. 8 PM (weather permitting).
• Soccer: U.S. Open Cup –
Third round. Time: TBA. RFK
Stadium. For tickets and
info visit www.dcunited.com.
Thursday, July 12
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• Lonely Woman Seeks
Lifetime Companion (Kiev
Film Studio, 1987). Irina
Kupchenko received the Best
Actress Award at the
Montreal International
Festival for her portrayal of
Klavdia Petronova in this
“sad comedy.” Library of
Congress, Pickford Theater.
8PM. See June 19 for admis -
sion info. Free.
Friday, July 13
Marine Band Parades:
Celebrate the Marine
Barracks bicentennial! This
series features precision
marching and music ever y
Friday evening through
August. Admission is free
and open to the public, but
reservations are strongly
suggested. 8th & I Sts, SE.
For recorded parade information,
call 433-6060 or visit
www.mbw.usmc.mil.
• US Army Band Concert.
Free, on the US Capitol’s
west front plaza. 8 PM
(weather permitting).
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• The Passerby (Almi,
1982). Romy Schneider,
Michel Piccoli, Helmut
Griem. Schneider plays two
roles in this last film befor e
her death at age 43. 7PM.
Library of Congress, Pickford
Theater. See June 19 for
admission info.
Saturday, July 14
Second Saturday is July 14.
The Hill’s own gallery-hop
and pub-crawl, presents ar t
in usual—and unusual—venues.
The bike shop? 5-
7PM—Free. Look for the
posters along PA Ave., 7th
St., SE and Barracks Row—
8th St., SE. Wine, hors d’ouvres,
dining discounts, more.
Check in at www.voiceofthehill.
com the week of the
event for a rundown on all
the action.
Monday, July 16
US Navy Band Concert: Free,
at 8PM on the Capitol’s
west front plaza.
Tuesday, July 17
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• US Air Force Band
Concert: Free, at 8PM on
the Capitol’s west front
plaza.
• Attention Sci-Fi Freaks.
3 Great flicks from Ger ry
Anderson at the Library of
Congress: Supercar:
Phantom Piper (1961),
Fireball XL-5: The Doomed
Planet (1962), Thunderbirds
Are GO (Century 21, 1966).
Anderson was one of the
most innovative and influential
figures in science fiction
television during the 1960s
and 1970s. First, with his
series of supermarionation
shows, especially in the
timeless series Thunderbirds.
Second, with his adult
series, UFO. 6:30PM. See
June 19 for admission info.
Wednesday, July 18
Treasure Talk: Join a Librar y
of Congress curator each
Wednesday at noon in the
“American Treasures” exhibition
to learn more about
some of the individual items
drawn from every corner of
the Library’s collections —
the story behind what makes
them especially interesting
and significant. Southwest
Gallery of the Jefferson
Building. Contact: (202)
707-9203.
Thursday, July 19
Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn
of the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
• Opening Night! Pirates
of Penzance. Sail the silly
seas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Presented by the Interact
Theatre Company at the
Folger Shakespeare Librar y,
201 E. Capitol St., SE.
Through Sept. 9. Tickets are
$35-$45. Wed. and Thurs. at
7:30PM. Fri. and Sat. at
8PM. Sat. and Sun. matinee
at 2. PM. Tickets: 703-218-
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1Canada Day
Natl Recreation and Parks
Month begins
Cheer the ladies who hit the
hoops. The Washington
Mystics vs. Orlando Miracle
at the MCI Center. Tickets:
432-SEAT. Get the schedule
at www.wnba.com/mystics.
4Independence Day Parade
info: 619-7222
And the Drums go
Bang! National
Symphony
Orchestra’s
Independence Day Concert
on the Capitol grounds—
and the fireworks, of course.
8PM. (Rain date, July 5).
2Pack a picnic and head out
for the NSO’s rehearsal for
the July 4 concert. All the
stars, none of the crowds.
7:30PM, Capitol grounds.
3Millennium Stage at the
Capitol: Free lunchtime concert
on the east front lawn of
the Capitol Tuesdays and
Thursdays from noon until 1
PM all summer long.
Pack another picnic. NSO
Dress Rehearsal tonight at
7:30PM
5Full Moon
8Heat making you a little
crazy? It’s perfect for viewing
the 100+ photos by
prodigious and sometimes
very bizarre artist, Arthur
Tress. Corcoran Museum.
639-1700
9Tonight! A pair of 1930s
adventure flicks from Films
on the Hill. Sundown Rider
and White Eagle. 7pm. $5.
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th St., SE. 547-6839.
10 Mary McLeod Bethune
Anniversary Celebration at
her Lincoln Park statue.
Celebrate the 126th birthday
of the African-American edu -
cator, civil rights activist and
founder of the Natl Council
of Negro Women. 673-2402
11 Let a Library of Congress
curator show you the secrets
of the marvelous “American
Treasures” exhibition.
Jefferson Bldg. Free at Noon.
707-9203.
Soccer: U.S. Open. Watch
the 3rd round at RFK.
Tickets: www.dcunited.com.
12 The Post raves that Wooly
Mammoth’s latest show,
Fuddy Meers, is a galloping
adventure, a mad cap come -
dy with a dash of poignancy.
At the Kennedy Center’s AFI
Theater ‘til Saturday. 467-
4600.
13 Bastille Day Race and Oh La
La at Noon at Les Halles Rest.
1201 PA Ave., NW 296-7200
Arts in the Park. The C.H.
Arts Workshop brings entertainment
to Lincoln Park. Walk
the dog, bring the kids, set a
spell. 5-6:30PM. 547-6839 for
program info.
14 Second Saturday! The Hill’s
own gallery-hop and pubcrawl,
presents art in usual—
and unusual—venues all
around the Hill. Wine, hors
d’ouvres, dining discounts,
more. Watch for posters! 5-
7PM—Free. Check www.voiceofthehill.
com on 7/10 for
event run-down.
15 Natl Ice
Cream Day
An Evening
with Judy
Collins. The
first lady of folk plays Wolf
Trap at 8PM. Yet another
reason to invest in a picnic
basket.
16 US Navy Band Concert:
Free, at 8PM on the
Capitol’s west front plaza.
17 “Over the Line: The Art and
Life of Jacob Lawrence”
African-American history
beautifully told through
paintings of events from the
Civil War to the civil-rights
movement to the end of the
20th century. Phillips
Gallery. 387-2151
19 Oooooh ripe tomatoes. Of
course there’s Eastern
Market, but have you been
out to RFK’s Open-Air
Farmer’s Market and Flea
lately? It’s at Lot # 6 and
opens at 6 AM.
20 Young British multi-media
artist Tacita Deann gets a solo
show at the Hirshhorn
Sculpture Garden.
21 RFK to Anacostia Park Bike
Trek. See the sorry state of
our waterfront up close and
personal. The Sierra Club
zooms in on the Anacostia.
Meet at Stadium Armor y
Metro. 10 AM-1PM Info.
547-3689.
22 Highland music, dancing
and cultur e—plus a slew of
antique British cars. Virginia
Scottish Games and Festival
at the Episcopal High School
3901 W. Braddock Rd.,
Alex., VA. (703) 912-1943
23 Blue Monday . Play hooky,
climb in a hammock, sip some
ice tea and read something
trashy.
24 Here’s what’s particularly
splendid this week at the
Natl Arboretum: Waterlilies,
hibiscus, crape myrtle,
daylilies, herbs, annuals,
sweet pepper bush, and the
wildflowers. How’d I know? I
checked in at
www.usna.usda.gov for the
bloom schedule. You can too.
25 Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch —
It’s time for the Temptations
and the Four Tops at Wolf
Trap! 7PM. Need we remind
you to take a picnic?
26 “On Gold Mountain: A
Chinese-American
Experience” traces a Chinese
family’s 1867 voyage from
China to the American West.
Chinese-Americans can trace
their roots in the genealogy
section. Arts and Inds. Bldg.
357-2700
27 The 51st anniversary of the
Korean War wreath laying
ceremony at the Korean War
Veterans Memorial. It’s also
the 5th anniversary of the
memorial. If you haven’t seen
it, this is the day.
28 WWI Began in 1914
Pink lilies, red lilies and
pearly white lotus. The
Annual Water Lily Festival at
the Kenilworth Aquatic
Gardens from 11AM to 2PM.
Bring your bug spray.
202/426-6905
29 Closing night. Was she a
tragic heroine—or just a
bitch? Watch award winning
actress Judith Light tear up
the floorboards in Hedda
Gabler. Shakespeare
Theatre, 450 Seventh St.,
NW, 202-547-1122)
30 Day-o! Harry Bellefonte’s at
Wolf Trap tonight.
31 Visit the National Gallery of
Art Sculpture Garden —
because it’s beautiful, and
because it’s there. 7th and
Constitution Ave., NW. 737-
4215
18 Stuck on Jury duty? Grab
lunch at the National Gallery
and catch “Spirit of an Age:
Nineteenth-Century Paintings
From the Nationalgalerie,
Berlin.” 75 rarely seen paintings,
by Caspar David
Friedrich, Eduard Gaertner,
Paul Cézanne, Edouard
Manet, and other greats.
737-4215
6Marine Band Parade: This
and every Friday evening all
summer long. Precision
marching and music, oh what
a night. Free. Show up befor e
sunset and they’ll sneak you
in, but for the best seats call
433-6060 to reserve.
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7Alexandria’s Birthday Party .
1812 Overture, cannons and
more fireworks. Jones Point
Park, 1 Lee St. 703-838-4200.
Watch the chicks kick some
balls. The DC United vs. Los
Angeles Galaxy. 8PM at RFK.
Tickets on-line: www.dcunited.
com.
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