Scientists have worked continuously in Forest Hills for more than one hundred years. The National Bureau of Standards campus opened in 1903, and some of its employees found they liked […]
Video and photos: Rock Creek Park’s birthday party
Rock Creek Park sure knows how to throw a party. The park celebrated its 124th birthday at the nearly 200-year-old Peirce Mill on a perfect early fall Saturday. Visitors enjoyed […]
Celebrate Rock Creek Park’s birthday Saturday
Rock Creek Park is celebrating 124 years as a national park tomorrow at Peirce Mill. The festivities are free and open to everyone, beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at […]
The physicists next door: Edison’s machinist
Over the past couple of days, we’ve learned about the father of the Forest Hills Halloween parade, two “men on the moon,” and other groundbreaking scientists who helped settle this […]
The physicists next door: Men on the moon
by Ann Kessler A remarkable illustration of the movement of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) physicists into the Forest Hills neighborhood in the 1920s can be found in the 2900 […]
Forest Hills history: The physicists next door
One of them worked with Edison. One was a good friend of Robert Goddard. And one has a crater named after him on the moon. And they all lived in […]
History: The schools for boys at Connecticut and Upton, part 2
by Ann Kessler Four different schools have occupied at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and and Upton Street NW since 1906. The first was the Army and Navy Preparatory School. […]
History: The schools for boys at Connecticut and Upton, part 1
by Ann Kessler Edmund Burke School, which has occupied the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Upton Street for more than 40 years, wasn’t the first school at that spot. It […]
How Forest Hills Playground Came To Be
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 […]
In 1990, We Rebuilt Forest Hills Playground Ourselves
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 […]