Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
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The nonprofit that has been organizing cleanups, concerts and other events at Forest Hills Park is preparing to dissolve unless more people join its board. Friends of Forest Hills Playground sent a letter to the community (see below) on Tuesday, June 4th stating that the board would begin winding down operations after June 30th, but […]
The Forest Hills Playground, currently closed for renovation, opened to neighborhood children almost 60 years ago. But the effort to create this play space began many years before that. Ann Kessler’s article below is adapted from two sources: A piece she wrote for us in November 2012 on the woman who advocated for our neighborhood’s […]
by Ann Kessler (Part 2 of 2; see the first post, about Mrs. Wright’s efforts to build and improve our neighborhood schools here.) Establishing a playground and providing recreational facilities for the children of Forest Hills was a constant concern of Mrs. Leslie Boudinot Flenner Wright, a neighborhood activist from the 1920s through the 1950s. […]
