Paul on Riding Through History
“I was born in Camp Pendelton, California. I came to the D.C. area in 1968. My Dad was in the Marine Corps and just came back from Vietnam and was stationed to Marine headquarters. I was in the 5th...
View ArticleMarvin on Appreciating the Tourists
“A lot of people talk about the tourists in D.C. like they are a nuisance because they can clog up the city or dumb because they ask a lot of questions. I don’t see it that way. I just see them as...
View ArticleSM on Being the Ultimate Washington Insider
“My name is Scott, but I go by my initials SM now. I used to live in Philadelphia and would come to D.C. a lot. I always had a better time here than I did in Philadelphia, so I chose to move to D.C....
View ArticleFrank on Buttons
“I was born in Baltimore and moved to Washington when I was five years old with my family. My parents had two grocery stores, real Mom-and-Pop stores, on the 1700 block of 10th Street NW and one on...
View ArticleLee on Miracles
“I am 101st Airborne and went everywhere from Vietnam to Iraq. I served proudly in the Army and did a lot of things that I can never talk about in service of my country. I learned a lot and the Army...
View ArticleBill on Considering the Possibilities
“From kindergarten through eighth grade, my parents regularly took me to the Franklin Institute, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Philadelphia Zoo. From a young age, I really learned to enjoy...
View ArticleSandra on Keeping Something in the Background
“I have always had a bit of the entrepreneurial spirit in me. When I moved to Dallas from Arizona, where I grew up and went to college, I started an errand business called We Can Do it. We would set...
View ArticleDanny on Danny Harris
Possibly my hardest interview yet… Video courtesy of SocialStudiesDC.
View ArticleWafa on Home
“To me, Bahrain is home, but I still think of myself as someone from D.C. I really love this city, and know more about it than I do about my own home. Sometimes, I find that when I talk, I say, ‘We’...
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