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Mapping Segregation

Mapping Segregation: Illustrating Systemic Racism’s Imprint on DC

September 29, 2020

Sept. 24 Zoom Recording Now Available

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“Jim Crow Comes to Chevy Chase,” Webinar Recording Available

September 16, 2020

Watch the Video Here! Technology Glitch Prevented Many From Tuning In Live We are pleased to post the recording of the in-demand Zoom webinar held Sept. 16 that explores the little-known history of racial displacement that occurred in Chevy Chase nearly 100 years ago to the descendants of enslaved man George Pointer. It was the …

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Keene Taylor Jr. and Jodan Benderly, with Dick Teare in the background

September’s Annual Historic Walking Tour Postponed due to Covid

September 12, 2020

We look forward to resuming our popular Historic Walking Tour of Chevy Chase DC — a perennial favorite for 10 years — when it is safe to congregate again — hopefully in Spring 2021. In the works is a virtual tour — stay tuned for details in the coming months!

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Charles King, Georgetown University Professor

Charles King: The Evolution of Race, Science on US Politics and Culture

July 9, 2020

Report on Webinar Featuring Georgetown Professor Includes List of Further Reading

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Activists Call Halt to Construction Over Historical Black Burial Grounds at Westwood

July 7, 2020

A July 6 story by WTOP puts River Road Moses Cemetery back in the news. The old burial grounds — now mostly paved over by a parking lot at Westwood — that had served families who once lived in Reno City among other African Americans communities in the early 20th century, is the subject of …

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Historic Chevy Chase DC: A Chronicle and Assessment of a Citizens Initiative

June 27, 2020

HCCDC President Carl Lankowski’s look back over 30 years of modern local history starts with a quote from one of the organization’s founders. “Historic Chevy Chase DC was founded as a way to document the historic significance of the Chevy Chase DC neighborhood, a community comprised of a variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods, and cultures, bringing together both the east and west sides of Connecticut Avenue as a community of historical interest.” — William West Hopper

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Carl Lankowski

Watch “A History of Your House” from HCCDC

May 12, 2020

At least 78 viewers logged into our first Zoom conference on May 12 entitled, “The History of Your House,” by HCCDC President Carl Lankowski. Carl, who bought his house on McKinley Street with his wife Pam in 2010, used his own house’s story to talk about what a house history entails, the types of things …

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Keeping Eyes on Our Community

May 2, 2020

Editor’s Note: This Page Is Under Construction!! Here is a list of issues on our radar that are of interest to Chevy Chase DC: Friends of Chevy Chase Circle traffic and lighting improvements Future use of the Episcopal Center for Children at 5901 Utah Ave. NW A Call-Box Restoration project idea proposed in early 2020 …

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Lafayette Students Launch Letter-Writing Campaign

April 30, 2020

April 2020 About 250 fourth and fifth graders at Lafayette Elementary School sat listening patiently to a story that many of them couldn’t fathom. They learned that just outside their door, a small community of Black landowners had been evicted from their property nearly 100 years ago to make way for the very school under …

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Vera Rubin Gets Her Telescope!

April 28, 2020

Former Chevy Chase resident, the late Vera Rubin, passed over for a Nobel Price in physics for her contributions in identifying dark matter, finally gets an observatory named in her honor.

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Mae Scanlan

Washington Post Honors Mae Scanlan

April 27, 2020

A photographer and poet who was dubbed “one of the wittiest poets ever born.”

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GGWash Article Uncovers Remains of Old Road Once Traversing Chevy Chase DC

February 24, 2020

A fascinating story about an old road called Milk Creek Ford Road that once traversed what is today Chevy Chase DC is the subject of an article by Eric Fidler in Greater Greater Washington, an online all-volunteer organization, on Jan. 8, 2015. Read the article here.

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