Judging by the traffic on neighborhood listservs and Twitter, a lot of people are worked up about the U.S. National Parks Service’s decision to close the east side of Lincoln Park, including both playgrounds for three months starting on February 25th. In response to a large email, letter and Facebook campaign that appears to have originated [...]
Tags: ANC 6A·closures·Lincoln Park·Moms on the Hill·MOTH·National Parks Service·rehabilitation·Upgrades
On February 25, 2013, the National Park Service will shut down a large portion of the eastern side of Lincoln Park for a large-scale repair/rehabilitation project. The closure is scheduled to last 90 days (until May 27th). This, of course, means that just as the weather will start to warm up, both playgrounds, the large grassy [...]
Tags: ANC 6A·closures·Lincoln Park·National Park Service·rehabilitation·Upgrades
File this in the category of “things I never thought I’d see, much less see on Capitol Hill.” Saturday morning hundreds of professional and amateur puppeteers gathered in Lincoln Park for the start of the “Million Puppet March.” Originally organized as a protest against a certain presidential candidate’s stance on funding public television (and one [...]
When I hear about the millions the District spends on police presence at all of the marches and political rallies held in our dear city, I get a little crazy. That said, I’m fully behind the Million Puppet March that starts at 10 a.m. from Lincoln Park on Saturday. Actually, I’m really envious of the [...]
Tags: #MPM2012·education·Lincoln Park·Million Puppet March·PBS·politics·puppets·rally·social media
It’s safe to say that life on Capitol Hill demands that residents commit to a certain amount of walking each day. We walk to the metro, the grocery store, the park, Eastern Market, but what about school? If you are quick to load your little ones into the car and head to school each morning, [...]
Tags: CHPSPO·Lincoln Park·Walk to School Day·walk to school day 2012
My friend texts me, “What time do things start at Lincoln Park?” I text back. It usually starts around 10 pm– the good part, that is. But really, the show at Lincoln Park takes up the whole evening; even before the sun is considering setting, thousands of people mill about the park watching a [...]
Tomorrow is International Walk to School Day, or, as we call it on the Hill, Wednesday. I mean, really, how is this different from any other day for us? Well, we can have a little party, that’s how. Tomorrow morning, students (and presumably some of their parents) from twelve Hill schools will gather at Lincoln [...]
Tags: Bikes·Capitol Hill Community Foundation·CHPSPO·Lincoln Park·Schools·Tommy Wells·Walk to School Day·walking
Today marks the one year anniversary of Capitol Bikeshare, the nation’s largest public bike sharing system (at least until those laggards up in New York finally catch up). Which means it’s been a bit under a year that residents of Lincoln Park have had to suffer the cruel indignity of having 15 bikes foisted upon them. No longer [...]
Tags: ANC·Bikes·Bikeshare·CaBi·Lincoln Park
While I was escaping the heat of DC this summer, a great change came over Lincoln Park: The Emancipation Statue there was cleaned up and about 100 years of copper carbonate was removed from it, changing it from a statue with a greenish cast to a deep brown. I didn’t watch the transformation, but [...]
Tags: Emancipation statue·history·Lincoln Park·Lost on Capitol Hill
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