Did the sound of helicopters hovering overhead affect you or your pet’s sleeping habits on Thursday night? According to a news report from WUSA Channel 9, the 1200 block of Potomac Avenue was the end scene of a Virginia car chase. The suspect was apprehended by Metropolitan Police after a barricade situation, which shutdown several [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Capitol Hill'
While you were sleeping: Virginia car chase ends in Hill East neighborhood
January 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill, New Hill East
Tags: Capitol Hill·car chase·Crime·hilleast·metropolitan police·safety
Holiday Lights on the Hill
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
For many folks the Christmas season isn’t the same without the twinkling of hundred (or thousands) of tiny lights adorning windows, eaves, bushes and banisters. While the Hill may not have the sprawling front yards on which to place the cavalry of toy soldiers or the life size replica of Santa and all his reindeer, [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill·Christmas lights
Area Mom Mobilizes Christmas Pajama Drive for Kids in DC Foster Care
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
Earlier this year, DC resident Kathy Jackson lay in her hospital bed, weakened from the treatments to fight her leukemia. She couldn’t see her three children, Joseph, Sam, and Tyler (ages 12, 8, and 7, respectively) because exposure to their normal childhood germs could have been disastrous. A bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy had destroyed her immune [...]
Overbeck Lecture on November 8th: Gordon S. Brown
November 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill South, DC, Eastern Market
Here at THIH we feel that a key component of our public service is to make sure you get to attend as many nerdy events as your heart desires. And one of the most amazing, awe-inspiring, and downright nerdiest of this neighborhood’s charms is the Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill history project, a carefully quilted [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill·history·Overbeck lecture series·Ruth Ann Overbeck Project
And the Winners Are…THIH Summer Photo Contest
August 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
The tribe has spoken! Our readers have spoken too, or rather voted. Thank you to all the avid photographers who entered our first ever photo contest. We were delighted and amused by the entries. The staff of The Hill Is Home deliberated for thousands of seconds and several cocktails to pick those deemed prize-worthy, and [...]
Things We Take for Granted: The Employees of Nationals Park Bike Valet Service
August 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill
For every game that my family bikes to, we use the wonderful valet service that I’ve written about in previous posts. Last night I realized that my previous post overlooked two key components: Olajawon Davis and Delonte Brown, the wonderful employees who make the bike valet station run. When we arrive at the garage on the corner [...]
Tags: Capitol Hill·Nationals Park
How to Keep Your Bike
June 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
It’s that time of year—though isn’t it always?—when listservs are overwhelmed with pleas from Hill residents desperate to get back their beloved bikes back, bikes that have been stolen from front yards and back yards, garages and porches, store fronts and bike racks. Some bikes are locked to garden gates, while others are left unattended and [...]
Tags: Bikes·Capitol Hill
Happy Second Anniversary To Us
May 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill
At the risk of being called out for navel-gazing, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish ourselves a happy second anniversary. Yes the little-blog-that-could has been posting observations, reviews, announcements, and criticisms for two whole years today. The traditional gift for a second year anniversary is cotton, so feel free to purchase one of [...]
Tags: anniversary·blog·Capitol Hill·posts·second·The Hill Is Home·writers
