Posts Tagged ‘monuments’
Monumental: Robert Emmet
Emmet statue in DC by Corinne Whiting
On a recent return trip to Dublin, Ireland, I happily killed some time strolling through the city oasis of St. Stephen’s Green. On my way out of the lush park, I meandered past a statue so familiar it brought me to a screeching halt. There stood a petticoat waistcoat-clad [...]
DC Mythbusting: Boundary Stones
‘Takoma 1791 Boundary Stone’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
Welcome to another week’s DC Mythbusting. This week we’ll talk about a myth I heard when I first moved to DC– that the city’s boundaries are marked off, every mile or so, with stones. I heard that these stones had been placed long ago when Andrew Ellicott [...]
Monumental: Enjoying inside
‘Solitude’
courtesy of ’sashapo’
Our weather seems to be doing its best to find painful and interesting ways to whipsaw between different combinations of wind, cold, rain, gloom and shine. It can be discouraging to try to plan an outdoor trip more than five minutes in advance and downright unpleasant to be out there sometimes. So in [...]
