An Evening with Kitty Kelley: Register for The 2023 BIO Award Virtual Event, March 28
• March 23, 2023

Announcement From 2023 BIO Awards: Kitty Kelley is the preeminent unauthorized biographer of our time and is the winner of the 2023 BIO Award. The BIO Award is presented annually […]

Campfire Ruminations Might Never Be Same
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Family and friends gathered ‘round a crackling campfire often elicit free-flowing thoughts and emotions. As a social species, we humans have cherished such moments of uninhibited sharing, story-telling and song […]

For Women’s History Month We Celebrate Georgetown’s STEAMy Women 
• March 8, 2023

We spoke with Georgetown women who work in the STEAM fields (science, technology, engineering, art and math) about their careers and accomplishments and were inspired by their ambitious journeys, words […]

Mapping Georgetown: Spy a Spy’s Home on the Georgetown House Tour
• March 6, 2023

One of the great features of the arrival of spring in Georgetown is the Georgetown House Tour, to be held this year on April 22. So many intriguing details about […]

The Lesser-Known Smithsonian Everyone Should Visit
• March 2, 2023

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum at 1901 Fort Place SE is a beautiful home to rotating exhibits on the history of vital social justice issues affecting our city and nation. […]

D.C. Black History Spotlight: Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) 
• February 8, 2023

While browsing the Peabody Room of the Georgetown Neighborhood Library in search of a fitting subject for Black History Month, I came upon an intriguing 1906 local news report which […]

Georgetown Historical Markers Teach Black History, Offer Tours 
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Thanks to work by Andrena Crockett and others, Georgetown’s Black history is being rediscovered and taught to anyone walking by and willing to read the signs on the street.  The […]

Citizens Kick Off Black History Month at Holy Trinity
• February 2, 2023

“Let us remember their names. Let us remember their lives,” said Bernard Cook from the pulpit of Holy Trinity Church on 36th Street in Georgetown on the first day of […]

Museum of American History Unveils ‘Entertainment Nation’
• January 19, 2023

Fantasy creations from  Hollywood —  R2-D2 and C-3PO costumes from “Return of the Jedi,” (1983) and Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) — are posed at the entrance […]

Have You Visited the Peabody Room?
• December 29, 2022

As the oldest neighborhood in the nation’s capital, with early 17th-century colonial origins, Georgetown has a deep, complex and ever-emerging history. So, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a Museum […]