May 2024 News Bytes
By • May 8, 2024 0 376
Architects Walk
Front row: Outerbridge Horsey, Anne Lewis and Leigh Stringer. Top row: Ryn Burns, Robert Bell, Matt Stevison, Wayne Adams and Ankie Barnes. Courtesy CAG.
The Citizens Association of Georgetown held its second annual Architects Walk Through Georgetown on April 6. The sell-out event was attended by approximately 100 CAG members. Seven leading D.C. architects volunteered their time to expertly narrate the history of distinctive houses in Georgetown’s west village.
‘Bardo’ Inspires
George Saunders at the Carroll Mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
As part of Oak Hill Cemetery’s 175th anniversary celebration, George Saunders, author of “Lincoln in the Bardo,” gave a reading in the cemetery’s Renwick Chapel on April 26. Saunders began the night with an impromptu staged reading of pages 291 to 294 of his book, describing the start of Willie Lincoln’s service in the chapel. “It was so moving to hear these words about the chapel, read in the chapel,” said one cemetery supporter. “Truly a night we will never forget.” Saunders’s Booker Prize-winning novel inspires hundreds of visitors each year to come to Oak Hill to visit the Carroll Mausoleum — where Willie Lincoln was interred from 1862 to 1865 — and reflect upon this moving story.
Kitty Tells ‘All’
Georgetown’s own Kitty Kelley — “America’s bestselling investigative biographer” — bedazzled her audience on the sun-drenched penthouse patio of Alan and Nancy Taylor Bubes, overlooking the Potomac River. The May 2 interview, moderated by Carrington Tarr, was organized by the Citizens Association of Georgetown. Kelley spoke of how her biographical subjects — such as Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan — affected her. She fondly recalled the gift from Katharine Graham she received at her office and how a senator’s scheduled five-minute interview turned into two hours. [Editor’s note: Read the full story at georgetowner.com.]
