The Georgetown Metropolitan

This week on Georgetown Time Machine, GM visits an oddity that once plied the waters of the Potomac: Georgetown University’s floating boathouse.

The photo, taken from the front page of the Evening Star from March 11, 1906, came to GM’s attention by way of a wonderful new research tool. It’s an image search tool now available for newspapers in the Library on Congress’s archive. You can plug in a subject, and the tool will identify photos containing that subject from hundreds of newspapers from 1900 to 1963. Continue reading →

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Levain Bakery is open.
• Useful (if depressing) map showing restaurant closures, including in Georgetown.

C & O Canal

The election is right around the corner, and I’ve been getting my campaign signs ready. They’ve now arrived and I’m starting to set them up around SMD02 (like at Volta Park above). I hope you like them!

And if you are in the area and would like to put one in front of your house, please let me know and I’ll drop one by!

And as always, more information on my campaign is available at mathewsforanc.com or you can email me directly at mathewsforanc@gmail.com with any questions or comments you’ve got!

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The Capital One Cafe is reopening. Does this count as indoor dining or in-door banking?
• More information on the outbreak of Covid cases at GU.

Georgetown Waterfront

Dumbarton House hosted a wonderful talk last month on the legacy of Race and Racism in Georgetown. Not surprisingly, it was a popular talk, so much so that by the time GM posted about it, the virtual tickets were all sold out. But now you can watch the recording of the talk above.

Thank you to Dumbarton House for hosting this crucial dialog. Relatedly, Yvette LaGonterie is giving her wonderful talk on the history of the enslaved people at the City Tavern next week via Tudor Place. GM saw her give the same talk at the City Tavern itself last spring and highly recommends it.

Photo by Geoff Livingston.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GU has identified 8 positive cases of Covid on campus and one in the neighborhood. Given the way students behave walking around the community, GM is not surprised at all that they are already spreading the virus.
• Where to get a sangria in Georgetown (and elsewhere).

Potomac River

GM wrote back in July that the city was mounting a downright feeble response to the Coronavirus in terms of making the streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Specifically, GM was writing how unlike many other cities that were taking dramatic steps to redesignate large stretches of road to non-motorized vehicle-use, DC was merely establishing a handful of “slow streets”. It was, in GM’s words, better than nothing, but not by much.

Two months later, and this wan effort has yet to make a single appearance in Georgetown. Although, as GM reported, the city had been exploring introducing some slow streets to Georgetown, none have been formally proposed, let alone implemented. Continue reading →