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Roy Deferrari, Breaker of Barriers

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on June 13, 2019December 23, 2020

I’ve written before about Brookland’s good fortune in attracting Howard University faculty to the neighborhood.…

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Loïs Mailou Jones and the Little Paris Studio

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 13, 2019December 23, 2020

It’s an unpretentious house on Quincy Street that might easily be overlooked if not for…

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General Orville Babcock: Some Old Time Corruption

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on September 28, 2018January 16, 2021

So far, the ongoing Robert Mueller probe has brought a slew of indictments and some convictions, but…

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Brookland’s Property Brothers

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on December 8, 2015January 9, 2021

Brookland had a number of different development partners in its formative years: Benjamin Leighton and…

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Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill and the fight to stay in their Brookland home

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on April 15, 2015December 30, 2020

The house at 1256 Kearny Street NE is a typical Brookland home in many ways…

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The Brookland Childhood of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 29, 2015January 6, 2021

It was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ second published novel, The Yearling, that made her internationally famous and…

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The Angel of Brookland

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on November 20, 2014January 17, 2021

Clara Barton (right) was already known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” when she first met Antoinette…

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Brookland’s Best Ballplayer

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on October 7, 2014January 4, 2021

Even though the Nats didn’t make it to the World Series this season, we’re still…

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The Birdman of Brookland

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

Robert Ridgway was a man of contradictions. He loved the rural countryside, yet lived most…

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