By Corinne Irwin, Chair Spring Activities In accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, the District of Columbia, and the National Park Service, we are making major changes to our Spring activities. Titanic Day of Service Our second annual Titanic Day of Service is cancelled. We will schedule […]
Local Connections, Black History in SWDC
By Ryan Pierce This year’s SWNA Black History Community meeting in February provided the community with a wonderful new insight on the history behind one of our more prominent local names, William Syphax. Mr. Craig Syphax, a direct descendent of William still living in the Washington area, presented the story […]
Amidon Tutor of the Month: Johnny Beason
By Robert St. Cyr Last year, in partnership with Southwest Neighborhood Assembly’s Education and Scholarship Task Force, Community Scholar started a tutoring program at Amidon-Bowen. Tutors have completed training and are now working with students for the second year of this successful program. Thank you to all of our neighbors […]
Coronavirus: It Feels Rather Ominous Now
By Kate Miller When I am perplexed by something I tend to dig deep for answers, so between obsessively scrolling Facebook (not true research) and straight up reviewing NIH and CDC websites, and Google (but of course) I find the coronavirus being compared to a 100-year epidemic. The last major […]
Coronavirus: What to Know and What to Do
Compiled by SW Resident and Disease Expert, Dr. Dennis Carroll By Mike Goodman Southwest’s own Dennis Carroll, Ph.D., currently serves as the Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Pandemic Influenza and other Emerging Threats Unit. In this position Dr. Carroll is responsible for providing strategic and operational […]
Age Old Cities at the Sackler
By Sheila Wickouski Enter the vibrant Souk in Aleppo, Syria. Watch as it turns to ashen ruins before your eyes. This is how Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, begins the immersive experience through three ancient Mideastern cities […]
Botanic Garden Turns 200
By Sheila Wickouski What better way to celebrate a 200th anniversary than to launch a new exhibit? The United States Botanic Garden (USBG) will kick off its year-long celebration with “The U.S. Botanic Garden at 200: Deeply Rooted, Branching Outward,” on display Feb. 20 – Oct. 15 in the Conservatory’s […]