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Loïs Mailou Jones and the Little Paris Studio

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 13, 2019May 11, 2021

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

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  • ON THIS SPOT

Fort Bunker Hill’s Second Life

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 8, 2019August 27, 2021

Although it never saw action during the Civil War, Fort Bunker Hill (above, Library of Congress), along…

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  • LOCAL LORE

A River Used to Run Through It

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on October 8, 2018December 23, 2020

Well, not really a river, more like brooks and creeks, and they were liberally sprinkled…

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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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  • ON THIS SPOT

Finding Fort Bunker Hill

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on May 21, 2018January 4, 2021

I have always found it frustrating that there seemed to be no photographs of Fort…

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  • LOCAL LORE

Catholic University, Brookland, and the Riots of 1968

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on March 29, 2018January 16, 2021

Fifty years may seem a very long time ago, but when remembering an extraordinary occurence, it…

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  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

Mapping Segregation in the Neighborhood

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 15, 2018January 15, 2021

Check the map to see if your house was once restricted. I’ve written before about…

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  • LOCAL LORE

“Gypsies” in Edgewood

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on November 28, 2017November 3, 2021

While researching the history of Edgewood and Metropolis View, I came across an 1895 story in the Washington…

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  • LOCAL LORE

Two Stories About Colonel Brooks – True or False?

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on November 20, 2017January 14, 2021

As I’ve researched Brookland and vicinity over the years, I’ve come across a number of interesting little stories…

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  • ON THIS SPOT

A Home for America’s Bad Boys

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on October 9, 2017January 15, 2021

Including one wayward youth named Charles Manson. Anyone who follows this blog knows that I…

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