On Wednesday, the Rock Creek Nature Center at 5200 Glover Road NW will open for the first time since March 2020. Covid-19 was, of course, the reason for the initial closure. The National Park Service says staffing shortages were also a factor in keeping the facility closed for this long. It’s a partial reopening. The […]
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This Saturday, help start a new pollinator garden and visit local EU-member embassies
For the last several weekends, volunteers from the neighborhood have beautified our area by planting native, pollinator-friendly plants and flowers along Connecticut Avenue in front of businesses, offices and the Montessori school between Van Ness Street Street and Nebraska Avenue. The effort will continue for the next two Saturdays, May 14th and 21st, from 1:00 […]
CANCELLED: Meet the makers who will be at Van Ness Main Street’s May 14th spring pop-up market
The weather is not cooperating! After the May 7th postponement due to rain, the May 14th market has been cancelled… due to rain. Van Ness Main Street is talking to vendors and trying for a June date, to be announced. An impressive group of area artists, artisans and makers will be popping up at Van […]
The UDC Van Ness farmers market is back. Here’s who will be there every Saturday through November.
Updated 4/28/2022 with the list of confirmed vendors, and new hours of operation. It’s fate. It has to be. Last weekend we pulled the last of our tamales stash from the freezer. And not just any tamales. These were Doña Rosa tamales, from the 2021 UDC Van Ness farmers market. We were glad because we […]
Plan your Saturday: Morris dancers greet spring at Peirce Mill; Join the Rock Creek “Extreme Cleanup,” Shop the “Books and Blossoms” pop-up
4/7/2022 update: Friends of Peirce Mill says the mill will not be running on April 9th after all, due to a “recently identified safety issue.” “The gears will be still, but the Mill will nevertheless be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with volunteers and park rangers on hand to provide […]
This spring, plant pollinator-friendly blooms, shop pop-up markets, and tour the world without leaving the neighborhood
Spring can get here any day now. And it’s not like we can hurry it along. But we can plan to make spring in Van Ness and Forest Hills more colorful, and more lively, and more fun. Enjoy live jazz: On Thursday, March 17th at 6 p.m., UDC Jazz Studies director Allyn Johnson is hosting […]
Upcoming events: Housing history in Cleveland Park, future development in Chevy Chase, and adding housing to your own property
Thursday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m.: The first in a series of virtual conversations hosted by Cleveland Park Smart Growth on the neighborhood’s housing affordability challenges and potential solutions. It focuses on Cleveland Park’s history of exclusion and how current civic engagement practices can perpetuate exclusion in high-income neighborhoods. See the schedule for the other […]
Watch: A short film on Hattie Sewell, one of Peirce Mill’s historical figures, and Black Washington of the early 20th century
One century ago, Hattie Sewell, a Black woman, was awarded the contract to operate a teahouse at Peirce Mill. By many accounts, she was a successful businesswoman who increased the sales and profitability of the teahouse, which had been in operation since the early 1900s. Her contract was terminated in October 1921, after a prominent […]
Levine Music and Van Ness Main Street are presenting a November concert series
Uptown Market, I’m Eddie Cano and another local business will be venues for special performances in November – thanks to a partnership between Levine Music and Van Ness Main Street. Jeremy Castillo, the director of Performance/Contemporary Music at Levine tells Forest Hills Connection that the concert series started with a conversation between VNMS Executive Director […]
Connecticut Avenue’s pollinator gardens, planted by volunteers, have been buzzing with activity. More bee and butterfly-friendly plantings are happening this month.
by Kathy Sykes When the days are getting shorter and the temperatures are cooling down, it is bulb-planting season! October is the time to plant bulbs that will emerge in the spring to brighten and color our neighborhood with red tulips, yellow daffodils, and purple crocuses and allium. And this month, Van Ness Main Street […]