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2700 block of P St.

GM was at the Hyde playground with his daughter this Sunday before the storm moved in, and witnessed the procession filmed above. It was a pretty massive group of GU students protesting the proposed Keystone Pipeline. After protesting in front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s house on O St., the group headed down to the White House.

There must have been nearly a thousand people in the march. All in all, a pretty impressive display of civic engagement. Prolly won’t make a difference, but still, good on ’em.

Photo by Ron Cogswell.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• This is a bummer: acclaimed chef that planned Georgetown restaurant pulls out after he can’t “make the numbers work”.
• Is “Georgetown” a code-word?

1500 block of 28th St.

Last weekend, the New York Times ran an ode to the marvelous American elm in its winter splendor:

THEY looked, at first glance, like trees in a paint-by-number picture, snow outlining branches in idiot-proof chiaroscuro — a child’s “Winter Scene.” Yet as I stood in a recent wet snowstorm on 110th Street, looking down Fifth Avenue along Central Park, I saw that the elms flanking the sidewalk had an aspect in winter less observable in other seasons, when their branches are cloaked in leaves.

Joined overhead, the topmost limbs rose airily to form a long vaulted corridor stretching to 59th Street and the park’s southern perimeter. It was as if on this west side of Fifth Avenue there existed a chamber, a “tabernacle of the air,” to use a purplish phrase the 19th-century orator and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher favored when describing groves of elm.

Trees are ordinarily most admired in spring blossom or summer abundance. But the striking architecture of the American elm is–as the Times piece notes–in most display in the depth of winter (particularly after a snow fall)

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Photo by Azeeze Bakare.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown DMV set to reopen April 29th.
• GU was one of the first college basketball team to play on television, 74 years ago today.

2700 block of P St.

This week on Old Georgetown in Color, GM checks out William Lee’s dance class. According to Shorpy, this photo is from Georgetown in 1919. Although GM can’t find any more information about Mr. Lee or his little ballerinas. So serious they look!

Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Circulator could be extended further north in planned expansion.
• Muriel Bowser thinks Jack Evans doesn’t know anything about DC outside of Georgetown. Come on, the baseball stadium’s outside of Georgetown, and Jack would live there if he could. You’ve gotta give him at least that much.

2900 R St.