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My family knew her first as the “Flower Lady.” That’s what my son, then seven years old, called her. We soon got to know her by her real name, Kathy, as she and her husband Steve started transforming the tree boxes on the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue into lush and colorful gardens. Before long, […]
Meet Thorne Rankin. She has lived in Forest Hills for 16 years. She is a landscape designer who has worked in the DC area for 40 years. And in 2017, Rankin started a nonprofit called DC Natives to create pollinator gardens across the city. Why did you decide to start this organization? DC Natives was […]
One of the newest additions to our ever-evolving Van Ness and Forest Hills Covid-19 business directory is physical therapist Gabrielle Czaja, whose office is in The Saratoga at Connecticut Avenue and Brandywine Street. Czaja continues to work with clients needing help with sore muscles and joint pain, but her practice has moved online while we’re […]
The talk scheduled for March 12th has been postponed to avoid a gathering that might put anyone at risk of coronavirus. A quarter century ago, David Cohen discovered a Harvard study that began in 1938 and continues to follow its participants and their descendants to this day. “With my lifelong interest in how people shape […]
Mary Beth Ray has never shied away from a challenge. She served as an ANC 3F commissioner and she co-founded the predecessor to Van Ness Main Street, ANC 3F’s Van Ness Vision Committee. Ray went on to chair the VNMS board. Now she is helping people take on their own challenges as a leadership, career […]
The documentary films of Aviva Kempner, a DC voting rights advocate and Forest Hills neighbor, star in this month’s Washington Jewish Film Festival. “I believe that I have been put on this earth to make films to counter negative stereotypes and give credit to Jewish heroes,” Kempner told the late Carolyn Jacobson in 2012. And […]
The objects that Pete Seligman picks up along Rock Creek don’t belong there – wood scraps, items of clothing, a crushed soda can. But some of them find a new purpose as a “jumping off point” for Seligman’s collages and constructions. Seligman lives on Veazey Terrace, and you might find him walking along Rock Creek […]
Max Hirshfeld’s photos have hung in museums, appeared in national ad campaigns and illustrated newsworthy events. For his latest project, the photographer has created an intimate portrait of his parents, Holocaust survivors who met in a Polish ghetto and fell in love while awaiting their deportation to death camps. The book, Hirshfeld’s first, is Sweet […]
by Ian Stevenson Several years ago, my father, Andrew Stevenson, ordered three colonies of three-banded Italian bees, three white hive bodies, two protective suits, and various tools. Getting bees was his project, but it soon became a family undertaking, and while my mother has certainly been the most helpful to him, when I am home […]
Karin Lithell’s introduction to the neighborhood five years ago is quite a tale, involving a wide-open front door, Secret Service agents, and neighbors keeping an eye out for masked invaders (raccoons, not robbers). Now the Swedish artist who has made her home in Forest Hills these last few years is returning to Sweden with her […]
