Quote of the Day: "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 6, 2022
These two houses, at 3405 and 3415 12th Street NE in Brookland, were serving as the Pallottine House of Studies when this postcard was printed. There is now a post office on this site. The annual Brookland House and Garden Tour is today. @BygoneBrookland https://t.co/X2nFOKco5B…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 5, 2022
Today in History - June 5 https://t.co/VIKgDo6MNU On June 5, 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in the Washington National Era, an abolitionist weekly. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery story was published in forty installment…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 5, 2022
Quote of the Day: "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." - Sophocles
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 5, 2022
The Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force) came to DC in 1932 to demand their promised bonus for service in WWI. One of their camps was among derelict buildings being demolished for the Federal Triangle project. The site shown was roughly where the National Gallery of Art is…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 4, 2022
Today in History - June 4 https://t.co/X0BoLd580w On June 4, 1919, Congress, by joint resolution, approved the woman’s suffrage amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. Continue reading. On June 4, 1754, twenty-two-year-old Colonel George Washington and his sma…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Jun 4, 2022