Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Despite being sold to Time Inc. for $20 million in 1978, the Washington Evening Star shut down for good in 1981, bringing the beloved afternoon paper's 128-year run to a close. #DCHistory https://t.co/GK9sQXMErQ Despite being sold to Time Inc. for $20 million in 1978, the Wa…


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The Unlikely Hero in George Saunders’ Short Story, ‘The Falls’

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Reading The Falls, a short story by George Saunders at The New Yorker, you’re privy to the self-centered thinking of two very different men on separate strolls around town. Morse is riddled with anxiety; a married father of two who second-guesses his parenting skills, his marriage, and every other thought. Cummings’ interior reel focuses on his as-yet-undiscovered greatness and the shock his family and local residents will feel when his greatness is finally revealed to all. But which of the two will rouse from their reverie to act when two young girls paddling in a canoe suddenly face danger? You’ll need to read the story to find out.

Morse was tall and thin and as gray and sepulchral as a church about to be condemned. His pants were too short, and his face periodically broke into a tense, involuntary grin that quickly receded, as if he had just suffered a sharp pain. At work he was known to punctuate his conversations with brief wild laughs and gusts of inchoate enthusiasm and subsequent embarrassment, expressed by a sudden plunging of his hands into his pockets, after which he would yank his hands out of his pockets, too ashamed of his own shame to stand there merely grimacing for even an instant longer.

…Morse, ha, Cummings thought, I’m glad I’m not Morse, a dullard in corporate pants trudging home to his threadbare brats in the gathering loam, born, like the rest of his ilk with their feet of clay thrust down the maw of conventionality, content to cheerfully work lemminglike in moribund cubicles while comparing their stocks and bonds between bouts of tedious lawnmowing, then chortling while holding their suckling brats to the Nintendo breast.

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The former Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church, at 1st Street and Rhode Island Ave NW in Bloomingdale, is now the Mount Bethel Baptist Church, and it is on the market for $3.25 million. @BloomingdaleDC https://t.co/uJPYgoWyOi The former Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church, a…


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Take a look at this set of 6 maps which depict the campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division in Europe during WWII. View all six maps here: https://t.co/rQqKRzc90x https://t.co/TdPaocC6tV Take a look at this set of 6 maps which depict the campaigns of the 45th Infantry Division…


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In 1918, the Tidal Basin Bathing Beach opened in Washington D.C. to great fanfare, providing relief from those humid summer days. There was one major problem though... the water was filled with sewage and wastewater. #DCHistory https://t.co/gsjzlyqNfv In 1918, the Tidal Basi…


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Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Today a spattering of stone ruins, Matildaville was once going to be a hub of commercial and trade activity. Few thought it would end up a ghost town, not least the man who conceived it: George Washington. #VAHistory #GreatFallsPark https://t.co/2zpnB8AcT8 Today a spattering…


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A PCC streetcar waits at the turn-around at Mount Pleasant and Lamont Streets NW, the end of the Route 40/42 line to Mount Pleasant. Early February 1959. https://t.co/w3Q96hgEh5 A PCC streetcar waits at the turn-around at Mount Pleasant and Lamont Streets NW, the end of the Ro…


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