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Dumbarton Oaks Park

The French Market returns this weekend to Book Hill. The festivities start Friday and they run all the way till Sunday. Friday and Saturday, it is from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday it’s noon to 5:00.

This is always a great opportunity for huge crowds to descend on Book Hill, with stores from Q to Reservoir out showing their wares on the sidewalk. Like the past several years, this will also be a great example of temporary sidewalk widening, as the parking lane is shut down.
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Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• People are always surprised to hear this, but Georgetown has a really, really good sailing team. (Sure, it fits with the stereotype, so in that way it’s not surprising. But that a campus not particularly near any sailing hotspot is so good is what’s surprising.)
• If you’ve got a free afternoon this week, this is the week to get to Dumbarton Oaks for its incredible collection of wisteria.

Dumbarton Oaks

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The story behind the man behind the piano behind the Georgetown Piano Bar.
• Another look at the bizarre new art gallery on Cady’s Alley.

1300 block of 31st St.

GM is going to shamefully take the idea of Washingtonian writer, Jessica Sidman, who this week asked: If you could bring back from the dead any restaurant from DC’s history, what would you choose? GM would like to take a local spin on it and confine it to Georgetown. If you could bring back any now closed Georgetown restaurant, what would you choose? Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Interesting contrast in the relationship between GU’s campus and the surrounding community, and Howard’s.
• This has nothing to do with Georgetown, but the greatest soccer game of all time was played yesterday. (GM is biased.)

3200 block of P St.

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• If you’re like GM, you forgot that Monday was a DC holiday, Emancipation Day, and put your trash out a day early. It should be picked up today.
• This is a great question: if you could bring back just one lost DC restaurant, what would you choose?