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by Steve Dryden Though Rock Creek National Park contains large tracts of wooded areas, overall, the tree canopy and layers of understory have been shrinking in recent years. A new initiative, Rock Creek Songbirds, is restoring habitat in the park and adjacent neighborhoods for the wide range of resident and migratory songbirds, including the wood […]
by Michela Perrone We live on 30th Street between Albemarle and Brandywine. And although there are a lot of trees in our neighborhood, our backyard is relatively open to the sun. So in April of this year, we responded to DC SUN, a local organization that promotes residential adoption of solar energy, and its call […]
by Marlene Berlin The currently-bare Forest Hills playground raises many wonderful memories of spearheading a community effort to renovate this play area 25 years ago. It was also a great way to meet the neighbors after my family and I moved to Forest Hills in 1989. Moving from Dupont Circle, I was shocked by the […]
by Mary Farrah Extension agent, UDC CAUSES Urban Gardening & Forestry Outreach When the empires of yore explored new lands and relentlessly expanded their territories, it was all the rage to import the strange and beautiful flora of these conquests into the finest gardens of Europe. This long-standing tradition of treasuring only the most exotic […]
It’s the last day of school for DCPS public schoolkids. For many in our neighborhood, their first days at Murch, Deal and Wilson schools were possible because of this woman, first featured on Forest Hills Connection in this November 2012 article. by Ann Kessler Among the early leaders of the Forest Hills neighborhood was a […]
by Malachy Nugent ANC 3F06 commissioner Some people call it “North Cleveland Park”, others say “Van Ness” or even “Upper Van Ness”, and in a pinch it’s just “that neighborhood right between the Van Ness and Tenleytown Metros”. Most people don’t know what to call it, or even that it has a name. But it […]
by Marlene Berlin On recent Saturday, a close friend was driving in from Baltimore to help me celebrate my birthday. She was supposed to arrive by 11, and we planned to explore the Southeast DC riverfront and Yards Park. At 11:30, she had yet to arrive, and I started fretting. But I soon received a […]
In January, the DC Preservation League moved to designate the former Intelsat headquarters an historic landmark. Barbara Bates’ last piece for Forest Hills Connection was on Van Ness Square’s history as an “Ice Palace” and more. Here, she writes about the uniqueness of the Intelsat complex in our neighborhood and on the meaning of the […]
Patricia Davies has taken many of the lovely nature photos you see on Forest Hills Connection. These are from her own backyard. Pat says this mother was having a rather rough day: “This mommy raccoon was trying to move her baby but got completely stuck and couldn’t manage it. In the end she gave up […]
by Lee Armfield Cannon Walk into Annette Polan’s home studio and you enter a space with twenty years’ worth of stories to tell, and only one purpose: To create beautiful and meaningful portraits that serve as biographies of the sitters, and of the artist herself. When Polan moved to the Forest Hills from Capitol Hill […]
