Thanks to Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory for sending from Jocelyn Street, NW in Chevy Chase:

“Last week we gathered with friends and neighbors to celebrate Vera Rubin, the “Mother of Dark Matter”, with a beautiful community art installation.”

Thanks to Sara (and others) for sending over the weekend: “We saw this today, 7/16/23. Someone “decorated” J. Edgar’s grave site at the Congressional Cemetery in a very interesting way!” Read More

Thanks to Nicole for sending: “did someone lose their snare drum in Rock Creek?”

Obviously it’s left over from this: Read More

inside 1411 W Street, SE Frederick Douglass National Historic Site via NPS

From the National Park Service:

“Join us at the reopening of Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (1411 W Street, SE) on July 4! The celebration will start at 11 a.m. with a special ceremony featuring a ribbon-cutting, music, and a dramatic portrayal of Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Following the ceremony, visitors will be able to walk through the first floor of the historic home from 12:30 – 3 p.m. Ranger-lead tours of the entire house will be available from 3 – 5 p.m., with timed tickets available at the event.

Initially closed in March 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the historic home remained closed so a new HVAC system could be installed. Read More

A reader wrote after our Truxton Inn closing post:

“There was a Circle there at North Cap. and Fl. Ave., called Truxton Circle! Not sure of the date when they took it out, but for years later my mother and aunt would always call that area Truxton Circle!”

And of course, the neighborhood is still called Truxton Circle today – but for those who were not familiar with the history: “Reader Finds Remnants of Truxton Circle Fountain“

14th and V Street, NW

Eatonville opened here to great acclaim back in 2009. The space had less success with followups Mulebone and Ancient Rivers.

The other day I noticed this permit in the window at the long vacant space. Childcare coming: Read More

Thanks to J. for sending: “Saw this ~30 year old sign on my walk in Petworth the other day. Sharon Pratt Kelly hasn’t been mayor since 1995!”

If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.

815 V Street, NW

Thanks to Andrew for sending the latest from earlier this morning. The Atlantis opens May 30th with Foo Fighters.

930 F Street, NW photos via Library of Congress

Super cool history from the Library of Congress notes: Read More

If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.

Thanks to D. for sending this awesome find: “I also came across this sole Olde Heurich Amber Lager beer bottle in my dad’s garage. He found it when he was cleaning out his dad’s basement in 1990 and decided to hang on to it.” Read More

If you have a photo of a neat find from your house, place of work or neighborhood please send an email to [email protected] thanks. Please let me know where/what neighborhood you found it in too. Thanks.

“Dear PoPville,

When I was visiting my parents in Indianapolis last month, my mom mentioned that she had a brochure from her senior class trip to Washington and New York back in 1961. I had fun looking at this brochure exactly one week shy of 62 years since she’d left on that trip. I thought you (and possibly others) might also enjoy seeing what highlights were listed way back then for a trip to our fine city (or “the ‘Paris’ of the western hemisphere”). Read More