by Barbara Cline This is an inspiring story for anyone with big dreams – How a “poor country girl from Tennessee,” without the advantages of today’s standard team of trainers and coaches, forged a legendary athletic career. Bessie Stockard, an associate professor in health education at the University of the District of Columbia, has lived […]
A Stream Runs Under It: Restoring the Broad Branch Tributary
by Steve Saari Watershed Protection Specialist District Department of the Environment If all goes according to plan, Forest Hills will have a new neighbor by next spring – a new stream! Though really, the stream is an old neighbor that will be returning to its old home. How is that possible? How can the city […]
Meet Your Neighbors: Free-Speech Champion Mary Beth Tinker
by Carolyn Jacobson Those of us who live in Forest Hills can boast that some very important people live here. But how many of us are aware that we have someone in our midst who made national news when she was only 13, and who continues to impact our lives, as well as those of […]
Our Dear Deer
by Marjorie Rachlin Once upon a time, in the merry month of May, Mother Doe gave birth to Little Fawn in the big wood Rock Creek. She nursed him for a while, although she had to leave him hidden when she went out to eat. After about a month, she said, “Its time you learned […]
Backyard Nature Guide: The Tiger In Your Yard
by Marjorie Rachlin A yellow butterfly with black hatchmarks flutters into the backyard, circles the garden, and lands on the purple blossom of the butterfly bush. Several years ago I planted this bush just to attract this eastern tiger swallowtail. It will put a long straw-like tongue into the flower, sipping nectar, and sit a […]
Clover Market Remembered
by Brendan Frost On Connecticut Avenue between Nebraska and Fessenden, across the street from Marvelous Market and Politics & Prose, there was a lesser known convenience store called Clover Market. The store recently shut its doors for good, but many residents of the Forest Hills and Chevy Chase neighborhoods will not soon forget it. I […]
High-Rise Life: Meet The Ruppies
by Barbara Cline You may have passed one walking on Connecticut Avenue or they may have been in the audience at your last Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting. They are Retired Urban People, or “Ruppies,” as described by Kyle Ezell, author of Retire Downtown. Ruppies are part of a predicted mass migration back to the cities, […]
Growing Community, And Veggies
by Marjorie Rachlin Recently I have made several visits to the Melvin Hazen Community Garden on Sedgwick Street, where 101 of our neighbors have plots. It’s lush and green — the tomato plants are blooming now, carrots and beet greens are a foot high, and gardeners have been picking lettuce for weeks. This garden was […]
My Balcony, My Eden
by Beverly Ringel When I realized that it was time for me to retire in earnest (I had tried it, at least, twice before and missed working), I began to search for a condo unit. I decided that having access to the outdoors was important in the choice of a building since I had enjoyed […]
Meet The Teachers: Ms. Levy
2019 update: Murch teacher Karen Levy is retiring after 32 years. by Donna LaPorte Scharpf Updated and reprinted with permission from MurchSchool.org Where were you in 1987? Karen Levy was here at Murch. That’s right, she’s been here a quarter of a century. We asked this veteran fifth grade science, writers workshop, and homeroom teacher […]