Rendering via Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Thanks to a reader for sending this survey from Commission on the Arts and Humanities. [Though they are a bit surprised that you have to email back your input instead of an automated set up.] The sculpture will go into Chuck Brown/Langdon Park located at 2901 20th Street, NE. You can see all the renderings and fill out the survey below:
I thought this was an interesting set up in the tree boxes outside Casey Trees in Brookland. A memorial to the fallen ones?
A reader previously sent in the Kim’s Garden memorial mosaic. I finally saw it in person for the first time. It’s very beautiful. From 8th and North Carolina Ave, SE near Eastern Market.
More photos after the jump. (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user Miki J.
Thanks to a friend of mine for sending these photos of the incredible Michael Jackson house off H Street, NE.
Photo by PoPville flickr user wolfkann
Remembering and honoring those who were lost on 9/11/01.
Josh Burdette memorial plaques have started to get posted at numerous bars around town. This one is from Solly’s at 11th and U Street, NW. A memorial scholarship fund has also been set up in his memory to benefit a student from the University of Maryland’s Student Entertainment Enterprises (SEE) program. Donations can be made here.
From an email:
“In lieu of flowers:
Contributions may be made to a scholarship fund established in Josh’s memory at the University of Maryland College Park. The scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student from the Student Entertainment Enterprises (SEE) program. While at UMCP, Josh participated in the SEE program and served as the president for several years. Upon graduation, Josh continued as a mentor to other students in the SEE program.
Donations can be made through http://joshburdettememorial.umd.edu/.”
Outside the former Papa Razzi restaurant space at 1064-1066 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Really easy to walk by this one. It’s across the street from the closed Ruby space in Georgetown that we spoke about yesterday.
“Bush. The old fire dog died of poison. July 5th 1869. RIP”
From Gutenberg.org A Portrait of Old George Town:
Someone who remembers him tells me that he was a collie, and that he went to every fire along with the engine. I think the men whose companion he was, and who evidently loved him when they inscribed the “R. I. P.,” must have believed, as I do, that like the Jim in the poem of that name by Nancy Byrd Turner, he would meet them joyously “on the other side.”
And from Wikipedia about the old Vigilant Firehouse:
A stone tablet sits at ground level between the two main doorways and reads “Bush, the Old Fire Dog, Died of Poison, July 5th 1869, R.I.P.” The story was related by Cassedy:
Bush was of mixed breed, of dark brown color, a volunteer of Fire Co. No. 1. He ran with the engine to all fires and parades and was a general favorite with all who chanced to form his acquaintance. He became careless about his diet, ate free lunch between meals and was taken suddenly ill July 4, 1869. The doctors pronounced it a hopeless case of arsenical poisoning, and after several severe spasms he passed peacefully in the sixth year of his age.
