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Dorothy Miller… After 50 Years a FB Community Champion Departs: We Lose More than an Advocate

It’s probably synchronicity that we acknowledge FBA’s June 30 celebration of Dorothy Miller days before July 4 and the FBA’s 50th anniversary. Dorothy’s motivation has always been about community service, and always putting herself ‘out there’ to call politicians and bureaucrats to task–to enforce the rules to preserve our system of voting and civil rights here in FB and the District.

If you had a question on just about anything having to do with District politics, tenant protections, or institutional encroachment and eventual assimilation of the historic FB community by these institutions, Dorothy Miller would be the first to call to direct you to answers. Continue reading →

FB Sculpture Exhibition Work Comes Home to Roost

When Meggen Watt agreed to lend her front yard for the first “Arts in Foggy Bottom” outdoor sculpture project last year, she never anticipated what would follow: involvement in the sculpture’s creation and its effect on the neighborhood would lead to her subsequent purchase of this extraordinary, “commissioned” one-ton sculpture.

Watt teamed with internationally recognized sculptor Craig Schaffer. The bonding process between artist and property owner started with a conversation and space survey. Watt received a drawing from Schaffer of the design, from which point Schaffer went to his studio to do the construction. Months later, Watt returned from a business trip to find— presto—“Gallo Grande,” a ton of towering steel that appeared to sit lightly in the front of the painted brick rowhouse. Continue reading →

Developers to Present Proposals for Stevens Elementary School Project to Community

A meeting is to be held at 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 11 at the Francis-Stevens Education Campus and the public’s comments will be collected.

The Stevens School is located at 21st and L Streets NW and was built in 1868 serving as the first modern school in the District built for African American students and named after Thaddeus Stevens—the motivating force and major abolitionist pushing Lincoln on slavery. (See FBN 2/09 archives on this website for additional information) Continue reading →