10 years ago when I lived in the Columbia Heights neighbourhood of Washington, D.C., it would have been inconceivable that the neighbouring 'hood of Shaw could ever become the 2nd most "bloggiest neighbourhood in the United States".
Then again, 10 years ago nobody had heard of blogs either. So things change I guess.
But this one is going to take a while to sink in.
Addendum: I also never thought I would see the time when there was opposition in Shaw to Shiloh Baptist Church, a historic African-American institution in the neighbourhood that has contributed a lot to those in need in Shaw. It's becoming clearer what is happening here....
Art from the supercool Daquella Manera blog/Flickr. Gracías.
Aaron, is this the neighborhood you lived in when I visited you and we walked everywhere and stopped in every bookstore we passed and Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas were on every street corner pleading their cases and you lived in a basement with no windows and one buzzing florescent light bulb and 17 locks on the door? (or is this a different one?)
ReplyDeleteThat lovely place you describe was in the Columbia Heights. If you remember the police action we saw on the street, that was in Shaw. Nice vacation, eh?
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