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1300 block of Wisconsin Ave.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine: GM is visiting an odd item in DDOT’s collection. It’s a photo of the Whitehurst Freeway circa 1959, but there’s another Whitehurst sketched in beside it! Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Bluestone Lane coffee shop is set to open by the end of the month.
• This is a far too accurate description of too many people who shouldn’t be driving on our roads.

Oak Hill Cemetery

This week on Know Your Trees, GM wants to help you help yourself. Rather than discuss a particular species, GM wants to show you how to find out what trees are on your block.

It’s all well and good to read about trees on the Internet or through a guidebook. But it’s better to look at trees up close and observe how it changes throughout the year. And you’ve got a small textbook right outside your door.

Every block in Georgetown probably has anywhere between ten and twenty trees. GM recommends you try to identify each tree on your block (or if you want to start off slowly, just learn those on your side of the block). And while you could try your hand at identifying the trees based upon field guides, there’s a cheat sheet. Continue reading →

Photo by Mark Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Chicken fingers are all well and good, but there better be something else for that tuition.
• Speaking of GU, there’s a senior who’s running for State Senate in the greatest state in the Union. (If he wins, he’d actually represent GM’s home town).

Dumbarton Oaks

GM has decided to catch up to 2010 and join Instagram. So go follow him @thegeorgetownmet! He will post photos daily from his archive of a thousand or so photos, plus new ones! Check it out!

Photo by Mark Andre.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Reminder: Dumbarton Oaks Gardens open again tomorrow!
• Washington Harbour for sale again.

1600 block of 32nd St.