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Neighbors Recommend: Communing with nature near and far

June 11, 2021 by FHC 2 Comments

by Marlene Berlin We have long been privileged to have a national park practically in our back yards. The trails through Rock Creek Park and tributaries including Broad Branch, Soapstone and Melvin Hazen have taken on new importance in the pandemic. Communing with nature has been a balm to our souls. I walk these trails […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Why icy sidewalks don’t stop me from walking

December 21, 2020 by FHC 3 Comments

by Marlene Berlin Icy walkways greeted us after last week’s snow and sleet storm. But they do not need to stop us from walking. I found a solution a few years ago – contraptions that fit over your hiking boots or whatever you wear in the snow. They are removable and give you the traction […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Learn to speak for the trees at Casey Trees advocacy training

February 19, 2020 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Pat Kasdan Casey Trees is a DC nonprofit founded by Betty Brown Casey on 2002, in memory of her husband, who had loved trees. Its mission is “To restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation’s capital.” The District’s tree canopy covered approximately 50 percent of the city in 1950, but had […]

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A fine, fragile thing shattered: ‘War and Pieces’ at Hillwood Estate

December 30, 2019 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Mark Moran Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is a lot of things, but one thing I never thought of it as is a shrine to postmodern conceptual art. So I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it when I encountered Bouke De Vries’ art installation, War and Pieces, on the […]

Filed Under: Hillwood Museum, Neighbors Recommend, News, Things To Do

Northwest Neighbors Village helps neighbors help neighbors age well

November 13, 2019 by FHC

by David Cohen One Forest Hills neighbor took dictation from J. Robert Oppenheimer after the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Another neighbor traveled the world for 37 years as a writer for National Geographic. A third founded a school for children with special needs in Pakistan. A fourth met with Robert McNamara to decide how […]

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Neighbors Recommend: See visiting luminaries and audit classes at UDC Law

November 5, 2019 by FHC

by Karen Foreit The next time you visit the Saturday UDC Van Ness farmers market, take a peek through the glass doors to UDC Law. This treasure in the heart of Forest Hills does more than prepare its students (who provide more than 100,000 hours of hands-on legal services every year to under-served DC residents) […]

Filed Under: Featured, Neighbors Recommend, News, Things To Do, UDC

Neighbors Recommend: The Art Museum of the Americas

July 19, 2019 by FHC

by Marlene Berlin A few blocks to the west of the popular – and often crowded -Smithsonian museums, there’s a little-known gem of an art museum at Constitution Avenue and 18th Street. It is across the street from the headquarters of the Organization of American States. And it is an extension of the OAS’s work […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Remember victims of gun violence at the National Cathedral on June 7

May 27, 2019 by FHC

by Gail Sansbury Some Forest Hills neighbors may have attended the 2017 lighting of the National Cathedral, so you’ll remember what an amazing and meaningful experience it was. My husband and I had never been to the Cathedral and we were not sure what to expect, but as the sun went down, the Cathedral slowly […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Orchids star in this Smithsonian show

April 10, 2019 by FHC

by Marjorie Rachlin Orchids, orchids, everywhere. You will be amazed at the orchid display in the courtyard of the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery (between 8th and 9th Sts NW, at F and G). They are there through April 28th, planted in hip-high planters so you can get close to the blooms. […]

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Neighbors Recommend: Glenstone’s dazzling modern art and architecture

November 5, 2018 by FHC

by Mary Beth Ray Imagine the intersection of good taste, fine art and design, environmental thoughtfulness, spectacularly landscaped acreage, and lots and lots of money. This is not a hypothetical; this is Glenstone. This private museum and parkland in Potomac, Maryland, owned and operated by the nonprofit Glenstone Foundation, is home to the modern art […]

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