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Author: Robert Malesky

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The Irony Behind the Statue of Freedom

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 26, 2014January 6, 2021

Did you know that great, monumental art was once produced in our neck of the…

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  • BROOKLAND ROADS

Robert Brent’s Road

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 19, 2014January 5, 2021

The first two roads I wrote about, Bunker Hill Road to the north and Queen’s Chapel Road to the…

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  • LOCAL LORE

The Opening of the Michigan Avenue Viaduct

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 13, 2014January 2, 2021

Anyone who has ever walked across a set of railroad tracks and felt the rumbling…

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  • BROOKLAND ROADS

Just Where was Queen’s Chapel?

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 6, 2014January 29, 2021

When I moved to DC decades ago and first drove out Michigan Avenue I noticed…

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  • LOCAL LORE

The Great 1906 Train Wreck

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on July 1, 2014December 15, 2021

December 30, 1906. Brawner Hetfield, a young CUA student, was just hanging out. Most of…

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  • BROOKLAND ROADS

The Old (very old) Bunker Hill Road

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 27, 2014January 11, 2021

When Brookland was first laid out in the late 19th century, the planners used some…

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The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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