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Save the date for the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Grain Fair and Conference with Friends of Peirce Mill and UDC. Grain Fair: Sunday, October 22, 10:00am to 4:00pm at Peirce Mill Grain Conference: Monday, October 23 at the University of the District of Columbia
The next Carnegie Planets Neighborhood Lecture is all about the moon. By the end of this decade, humans should once again walk on the lunar surface. Dr. Stephen Parman will […]
April 20th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock […]
City planners and developers who wanted to make Tenleytown a whites-only enclave displaced a Black middle-class community where Fort Reno Park stands today. "The Reno Community" is a program presented by Jackson-Reed High School students and Assistant Principal Marc Minsker in association with "Undesign the Redline." They will discuss how student engagement in local history […]
Saturday, May 4th is Passport DC's Around the World tour of local embassies (10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). The neighborhood embassies hosting open houses on May 4th include Bangladesh, China and Pakistan. The embassies of Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia will be hosting events at UDC. And, you might want to make the […]
Embassies for European Union members open to the public for tours during the May 11th EU Open House (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). The closest European Union open houses are at the embassies of Austria, Slovakia, the Netherlands (which is sharing its space with Belgium), Hungary and Czechia. This tour will also have an information […]