The Georgetown Metropolitan

1000 block of Wisconsin Ave.

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Old Stone House to close for a year.
• Decent list of Georgetown restaurants.

(Actually the kickball game starts at 1:30.)

See you there!

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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Rat at Wisenmiller’s gets famous.
• Georgetown has a couple winners in the Post’s Best of DC survey.

1200 block of Wisconsin Ave.

This week on Georgetown Time Machine, GM is checking out a fascinating shot of M St at 34th St.

The scene is so different now it might take you a second to orient yourself. This is the view of M St if you were to stand in front of the Georgetown Running Co. and face southeast. Continue reading →

Photo by Omar Barcena.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Check out some Punk history at the Georgetown library this weekend.
• The surprising CV of one of the BID’s team.

3400 block of Volta Place

On Tuesday, it was announced that the prestigious Man Booker Award, which is given to the best English language novel published in the United Kingdom, was awarded to the American, George Saunders. It was for his 2017 book Lincoln in Bardo.

The novel is about Abraham Lincoln and how, in his grief over the death of his son Willie, the President visited Willie’s crypt in Georgetown’s Oak Hill Cemetery to hold his corpse.

While this is certainly one of the more notable literary works to take place in whole or in part in Georgetown, it is certainly not the first. Continue reading →