Monthly Archives: September 2009
Accessioning ephemera
This story, about the clutter of News Corp related ephemera sitting in the hallowed main hall of the Smithsonian Castle (near where my relative, Robert Kennicott, once lived and worked), got a bit lost while I was away nattering about … Continue reading
Bye bye, St. E’s
The lovely, sylvan west campus of St. Elizabeths, the historic hospital for the mentally ill that is one of Washington’s least-visited, but most beautiful places, is now a demolition site. Non-historic buildings are already coming down as the site is … Continue reading
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