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EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8
PHOTOGRAPHERS Philip Bermingham Jeff Malet
Paving Over Our Concerns? Philip Bermingham and the Art of Observation Letters to the Editor
ADVERTISING & MARKETING Kate Sprague Richard Selden
BUSINESS · 9 Ins & Outs
COVER · 10 - 11 Philip Bermingham: The Power of Photography Summer Photo Competition
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Kitty Kelley Book Club Hail and Farewell: Richard Selden, in back, with editor Robert Devaney; in front, publisher Sonya Bernhardt and the late Gary Tischler.
Man of Many Words To readers of The Georgetowner, Richard Selden is the witty and erudite host of our Cultural Leadership Breakfasts and a perceptive commentator on arts happenings in D.C. and beyond. But to us, the writers, he has been a magician, transforming our clunky words and even clunkier thoughts into something compelling and worth reading (even way past deadline). Who never imposed his voice on ours. And whose editorial touch was so seamless it made it difficult to distinguish our original from his subtle improvements. A longtime advocate for the arts, Richard graduated from Yale University and has been the marketing director at Baltimore’s Peabody Institute and director of continuing education at the Corcoran. He also had led arts-and-culture tours for the Smithsonian, in person and most recently online. He is now returning to Connecticut, his home state, to serve as director of advancement at the Mystic Museum of Art. As he surely knows, the Connecticut state motto is “Qui transtulit sustinet,” meaning “He who transplanted still sustains.” Selden may have transplanted himself back to his roots, but his legacy and our memories of his passion and discernment will remain forever. Ave atque vale. We will miss you and wish you all success.
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NEWS It Was Fun While It Lasted: All Parking Enforcement Resumes June 1 BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY On Tuesday, June 1, enforcement will resume for motor vehicle parking, photo and minor moving violations in the District, but an amnesty program will help many drivers by eliminating penalties, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last month. Photo violations include speeding, red light and stop sign violations. A four-month amnesty program offering drivers the opportunity to pay outstanding tickets issued before Sept. 30, 2021, will run from June 1 to Sept. 30. Drivers eligible for the amnesty program are still obligated to pay the original ticket amount; however, any penalties will be waived. Department of Public Works tow and storage fees, if any, will not be waived. More information can be found at ticketamnesty.dc.gov. As the amnesty program kicks off on June 1, DPW will resume full enforcement of the following parking violations:
• Expired parking meters • Expired residential parking permits (RPP) • Expired vehicle tags • Parking in no parking zones (violators will be towed and ticketed) • Registration of residential out-of-state automobiles (ROSA) • Abandoned vehicles (i.e., with flat tires, expired registrations) The Department of Motor Vehicles is also restarting certain requirements on June 1, as follows: • All District-registered vehicles must display valid registration and inspection stickers to avoid penalties and enforcement. Registration renewals are not eligible for in-person transactions. Renewals can be done online at dmv. dc.gov, on the DC DMV app or by mail. Vehicle inspection is available on a first-
Parking enforcement officer on N Street NW. Georgetowner photo. come, first-served basis. • Any registration renewed with an RPP request on or after June 1 will be subject to new tiered RPP fees. • Any ticket issued after June 1 will be subject to adjudication hearing timelines listed on the back of the ticket. Tickets issued between Jan. 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021, are still eligible for adjudication and payment of the original fine until Sept. 30. District residents should prepare for enforcement of the following programs beginning July 1:
• DPW will begin booting vehicles with two or more unsatisfied parking, photo and/or minor moving violation tickets over 60 days old. • DMV will require all expired D.C. driver licenses and ID Cards to be renewed before July 1, 2021. Failure to comply may result in enforcement. Residents with a REAL ID credential (black star in right corner) should renew online, on the DC DMV app or by mail. Residents without a REAL ID credential and residents 70 years old and older must make an online appointment to renew their credential in person.
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Canal Readies for Water, Boat, Eventually Canoes, Mules BY R OB E RT DEVA NEY Georgetown’s crown jewel, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, is ready for its 2021 debut. With repairs to Locks 3 and 4 completed in 2019 and the canal wall near Grace Street and Wisconsin Avenue stabilized, it’s almost time for the water to flow and the new canal boat to arrive. “The boat is begin built at the Roudebush Yacht & Engine Works shipyard outside of Baltimore. It will be over 80 feet long and is being built in two halves that will eventually be put together after delivery to Georgetown,” according to Georgetown Heritage, the nonprofit that works with the National Park Service to improve and promote Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. “Water will return to the canal during
the months of May and June,” Georgetown Heritage Executive Director Jeffrey Nichols told The Georgetowner last week. “The National Park Service and Georgetown Heritage will be working together to re-water the canal, conduct canal cleanups, remove the vegetative growth within the canal prism [the prism-shaped bed of the canal] and repair the dry dock near 31st Street. Also, we just completed the installation of utilities for our new boat in preparation for its return later this year.” Among the other projects, such as towpath upgrades and expanded lighting, expect to see a floating dock near 34th Street for launching kayaks and canoes and the return of the mules in 2022.
Back to School … in Summer BY PEG GY SA NDS Like everything else during the COVID19 pandemic, summer school offerings in the District will be different this year. That goes for Georgetown’s only public elementary school, Hyde-Addison at 3219 O St. NW, and the neighborhood’s Hardy Middle School, at 1819 35th St. NW. Up to 7,000 students will be able to attend in-person and virtual “learning supports” for every grade between July 6 and Aug. 6, DC Public Schools announced. “At Hyde-Addison, in-person classes and activities taught by certified teachers are being offered to rising kindergarten students through fifth-graders,” Principal Calvin Hooks told The Georgetowner during the May 12 meeting of the Ward 2 Education Council. “We expect up to 35 percent of the school population — currently about 400 students — will be served.” The expanded DCPS summer offerings are designed for students in each district identified by their teachers and others as having the greatest need. The class offerings include not only academics, particularly reading and math, but also sports and arts
activities to foster social interactions missing during the past year of virtual schooling. Special extended programs — some virtual — are also available to interested students, including Springboard Collaborative, an early-reader program for kindergarten through second grade; K-5 Elementary English Learner Summer Academic Programs (ELSAP); and the Extended School Year (ESY), a four-week program limited to students identified as being at risk of skill regression. Algebra Accelerator I is offered through the Middle School Summer Enrichment & Learning program. DC Public Schools is expected to receive some $300 million for summer programs from federal pandemic relief funds, such as the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and the CARES Act. Twenty percent of the total $1.8 billion that will flow to D.C.-area school systems planning summer school expansions must target learning loss, according to an April 26 Washington Post story. The deadline for spending CARE Act grants is 2024. “Each school’s allotment will be based
C&O Canal boat being built in Maryland. Courtesy Georgetown Heritage.
on funding levels for Title I assistance that supports the education of students from low-income families,” according to DCPS. Some schools in the District are expected to receive about $200,000 in extra funds for their summer programs. Expanded pandemic relief programs at D.C.’s public charter schools — which almost half of the District’s public school students attend — will be funded under the same formula. “Teaching in summer school itself will be voluntary,” said Hooks. “No teacher will be
CRIME & SAFETY BY KATE OC ZYPOK
The following is a recap of crimes that occurred in and around the Georgetown.
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• On April 8, a suspect exposed themselves to victims in the 3600 block of R St. NW and then fled the scene. • Also on April 8, a suspect exposed themselves in the 3000 block of Avon Lane NW and committed a lewd act in front of victims around 9 a.m. They then fled the scene.
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forced to teach. The number of students that can be accepted and the kinds of offerings will be dependent on staffing.” “Teachers are exhausted after their hard work juggling both virtual and in-person teaching this past year,” said National Summer Learning Association CEO Aaron Philip Dworkin. “Now, this summer, teachers will be addressing academic makeup for learning losses, especially in reading and math, as well as emphasizing health, fitness, social mixing and artistic activities.”
• A homicide was reported on April 15 in the 3600 block of Massachusetts Ave. NW. At 4:34 a.m., members of the Second District responded to the location for the sound of gunshots. The victim, Oscar Rodas, 49, was still alive. He was rushed to the hospital and died 12 days later, succumbing to his injuries. MPD is currently offering a reward of up to $25,000 for any information that leads to an arrest. Police believe it was a road rage incident.
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• An arrest was made on April 19 for a homicide that occurred in November of 2020. Roberto Cayetano-Mejia, 20,
of Falls Church, Virginia, was arrested for the November 7, 2020, homicide of 19-year-old Franklin Hernandez Arevalo of Alexandria, Virginia. The original incident occurred at around 3 a.m., when members of the Second District responded to the 3300 Block of Water St. NW to the sound of gunshots. They found an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound and showing no signs of life.
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• A theft was reported at the 3100 block of Dumbarton St. NW • A theft was reported at the 3600 block of N St. NW
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• A theft was reported at the 3300 block of Prospect St. NW • A theft was reported at the 1200 block of Wisconsin Ave. NW
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• A theft was reported at the 2800 block of M St. NW • A theft was reported at the 3200 block of M St. NW
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Graham Mansion Dispute Nearing End? BY PEGGY SA NDS The drawn-out dispute between neighbors over renovations to one of Georgetown’s most treasured historic mansions, formerly owned by the late Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, surfaced again at the May 3 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith advisory neighborhood commission. The new plans for the property, at 2920 R St. NW, were met with almost all the same criticisms as during the heated confrontation at an ANC 2E meeting seven years earlier. This time, the intense fire was gone. At 10:30 p.m., the ANC passed a resolution that requested the Old Georgetown Board — the federal commission with final say over all construction in historic Georgetown — to postpone its scheduled Thursday review of the new plans until June. “What’s another month after all these years?” asked ANC Chair Rick Murphy with a sigh. But no objection to the plans was expressed. The fate of the mansion has long been of intense interest to Georgetown residents and visitors. It was once owned by George Washington’s great-grandnephew, and then by William “Wild Bill” Donovan, who founded the agency that preceded the CIA. The Federal-style house has been expanded and remodeled several times, lastly by the Grahams, who bought it in 1946. With the growing prominence and power of the Washington Post, the home became the indisputable center of D.C.’s politics-focused social life. Katharine Graham died in July of 2001. She is buried next to her husband in the cemetery directly across the street from the house’s almost one-acre front yard. Mark Ein, a venture capitalist who grew
up in Bethesda, Maryland, and the District and founded the Washington Kastles tennis team, bought the empty house in 2002. After marrying in 2013, he and his wife, the former Sally Steibel, made plans to modernize and expand the house, including the narrow circa-1915 kitchen. But neighbors Calvin and Jane Cafritz — he the son of a major D.C. property developer and she an attorney — who share the driveway with the property, objected. They felt the addition was too big and too close to their house, and that it would damage the historic stone walls on 30th Street, as well as some historic trees. The Cafritzes especially objected to the garage that was to be attached to the side of the house. The plans were sent back with recommendations by the OGB. Seven years later, at this month’s ANC meeting, wellknown Georgetown architect Outerbridge Horsey presented new plans showing the decreased size of the remodeled house and a partially underground garage, its entrance hidden by a stone wall. The key historic tree in question had died; new landscaping was planned to stabilize the backyard. The Cafritzes objected again, saying it was still too large and that the remodeled sections would be seen from the street and take away from the historic prospect of the house. Horsey noted that visible additions to historic homes are not forbidden by the OGB. After several rounds of discussion, the visibly weary commissioners voted to ask the OGB to postpone their review to give more time for comment. “But we really have no authority over the OGB schedule,” Murphy stated. As of press time, the action taken by the OGB was unknown.
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Paving Over Our Concerns? Maybe they still haven’t gotten over the events of Aug. 23, 2017, when the ever-alert, ever-ready Georgetown dog squad, consisting of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners Rick Murphy (now chairperson), Jim Wilcox and Joe Gibbons (then chairperson) — and his faithful dog, Scout — stationed themselves on a patch of broken brick sidewalk on the corner of Dumbarton and 30th Streets NW. Having cordoned off the stretch, a District Department of Transportation crew was about to apply a flexible porous pavement product. The commissioners and Scout faced off with the crew, stopping the Not In Our Back Yard cement job in its tracks and holding their ground until receiving assurance that the patch would be resurfaced with bricks, not pavement, whether flexible, porous or otherwise. Georgetowners had a proud chuckle over the incident. But now we’re wondering if it’s payback time. “I have been spending my life the past few weeks talking to, cajoling, threatening and trying everything possible to keep the District from paving over several brick sidewalks in Georgetown,” reported Murphy at the May 3 meeting of ANC 2E. “There was no notification. They don’t seem to listen, and mostly don’t respond to our entreaties,” he continued. “Now I hear they intend to proceed with the paving, possibly the week of May 10.” The kerfuffle is evidence of a continuing reduction in transparency and responsiveness
to Georgetown community representatives on the part of District agencies. Certainly, we in the press encounter an increasing number of obstacles to speaking directly with officials. We have to go through everchanging layers of bureaucratic “minders” with titles like outreach director and community engagement coordinator — most of whom are working at home, distanced from their bosses. Quotes and comments come from the “communicators,” not the actual government sources. That is not how it used to be. Until recently, we were able to ask questions and get answers the old-fashioned way; the minders just set up the interviews. “We always had a cooperative working relationship with the DDOT about their many projects in Georgetown,” Murphy said. “The sidewalk pavement project is particularly frustrating because it is so visible and hits at the heart of Georgetown charm. The DDOT has the duty to assure that Georgetown sidewalks are safe and accessible, but there are ways of accomplishing that without suddenly covering the brick sidewalks of Georgetown with pavement.” That’s why the city needs to respond to the ANC and community representatives, Murphy contends. But the pavement people, who report directly to the deputy mayor of operations, have apparently been given the go-ahead without regard for the neighborhood’s concerns. Maybe it’s time to bring back Scout, along with reinforcements, both canine and human.
Philip Bermingham and the Art of Observation As the world opens up again, we observe our lives and surroundings with new eyes. Spring is sweeter; food, more delicious; and reconnecting, more welcome after months of darkness and fear. This month’s issue focuses on the art of observation. Our cover story salutes photographer Philip Bermingham in celebration of his 70th birthday. Georgetowner readers will recognize his work, if not his name — he’s shot about 30 covers for us, as well as portraits of the world’s best-known luminaries and deliberately private individuals. After starting out as a Liverpool bobby, he got his photographic training shooting crime-scenes in Bermuda. (There’s crime
in Bermuda?) He later moved to northern Virginia and then to Washington, D.C., where he now lives at the Watergate. Richard Selden, our much loved, departing arts editor, takes you through his life and portfolio. Long before Instagram, writer, director and philosopher Susan Sontag observed that “today, everything exists to end in a photograph.” If this is your mantra, we invite you to submit your best photos to the 2021 Georgetowner Photo Competition. Last held in 2013 — and back by popular demand — the contest is open to anyone with a good eye and the power of artful observation (contest details on Page 11). Keep shooting and watch this space.
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Volta Park Needs Your Help As our gardens begin to bloom, you have probably noticed the Volta Park field could use help. Our formerly grassy fields have seen better days. Drainage problems under the field have led to large patches of bare dirt, and the baseball diamond is currently too treacherous to host Little League games. The expenses associated with these issues far exceed the resources of the Friends of Volta Park, and we desperately need the city’s assistance. As a public park, and in our agreement with the District government, maintenance of the field and baseball diamond is a D.C. responsibility, but we are competing with a wide variety
of city projects for a limited amount of funds. Please write to the office of Mayor Muriel Bowser at eom@dc.gov to let her know how much we need the city’s help to make the field once again safe for our children and bring grass back to the field. Check out our newsletter for updates on events, fundraisers and general park facilities — including a friendly reminder to keep our four-legged furry friends on a leash while in and around Volta Park. We appreciate all the support shown FOVP throughout this unprecedented year. — Darcy Nauman and Diana Minshall
Georgetown’s Alarming Lime Infestation I am a longtime denizen of Georgetown and I extensively fish its waterways on a daily basis — Rock Creek, the C&O Canal, as well as the Potomac. Lately I have found myself amazed and perplexed by the amount of discarded Lime electric scooters and orange bicycles that absolutely infest our neighborhood, and especially the less trodden underbelly of our neighborhood. I see dozens, if not hundreds, of scooters/bikes in the creek, in the canal, in the river, all along the bike trails, all along footpaths in the woods, basically everywhere. There is an especially alarming buildup of them below the
neighborhood’s bridges, where they are seemingly tossed from. It is apparent that Lime has no obligation to collect their discarded scooters/bikes, as I routinely walk past ones that have lain there for multiple months. I do not believe I am exaggerating when I say this is a serious problem. It is absolutely getting out of control, and if the myriad of discarded Lime scooters/bikes is not substantially curbed sooner than later, future generations of Georgetowners will find their waterways cluttered beyond all hope. — Van Hillard
‘No Convincing Evidence’ of Man-Made Climate Change The article “Combating Climate Change: Essential, Not Optional” [April 14 issue] is based upon the false and unwarranted assumption that the gradual warming of the Earth since the end of the “little ice age” in 1780 is the result of a miniscule increase in carbon dioxide [From 280 parts per million of the Earth’s atmosphere to 420 parts per million] due to man’s burning of fossil fuels. A balanced article would have informed readers that thousands of scientists reject the hypothesis, popularized by Al Gore and computer climate modelers, that man-made carbon dioxide is the primary cause of the current warming trend. In fact, more than 31,000 scientists, including luminaries such as Dr. Edward Teller, father of the atomic bomb, have signed the Oregon Global Warming Petition, at petitionproject.org, which states there
is “no convincing evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.” The Earth’s climate has always been, and always will be, in a constant state of change due to changes in the Earth’s orbit; the heat generated by the Sun; the heat and volcanoes generated by the Earth’s molten core; meteors; and cosmic radiation. We humans have no ability to “combat” any of those continuous natural impacts on our climate. We can only “adapt,” as humans have been required to do ever since they first walked upon the Earth many eons ago. — Don W. Crockett Editor’s note: Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, not the atomic bomb.
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REOPENING: GLOVER PARK WHOLE FOODS
The red-brick facade has been painted gray. The clock above the garage entrance is gone. A fresh set of Whole Foods signage has been erected. The door is open, but a sign reads: “Store is Closed.” Construction workers are moving about the store. Peeking inside, those who have shopped at the market since its opening in 1996 can detect the outline of an emerging store. Yes, the long lament — since March of 2017 — by Glover Park, Burleith and Georgetown residents over the closure of the Whole Foods Market at 2323 Wisconsin Ave. NW has come to an end. Although not confirmed by Whole Foods, rumors are flying that its Glover Park store could reopen during the summer. “We are thrilled to announce that Whole Foods Market will be returning to Glover Park,” said a Whole Foods spokesperson in a statement last year. “We will be completing a remodel of the store before reopening our doors, so stay tuned for more details on timing. We look forward to returning to serving the community we’ve been part of for more than 20 years.” Last year, the two parties in a lawsuit — the grocer and the landlord — settled before the case was to go to trial over the issue of rodents. Whole Foods is owned by Amazon.
REOPENING: LANTERN BOOK SHOP ON P
The Lantern — the used and rare book store at 3241 P St. NW run by volunteers, most of whom are local Bryn Mawr College alumnae — will reopen on May 13 after being closed for more than a year. Its days of operation are Thursday through Sunday. There may be a limit on the number of shoppers at any one time, so call ahead to 202-333-3222 or email lantern@hers.com. All of the Lantern’s profits go to the college to support students’ summer internships.
IN: FIRST U.S. LOCATION FOR U.K.’S BUDD & CO.
Budd & Co., a new concept house of British brands, bespoke suiting and fine leather accessories, opened on May 6 at 2824 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, near the Four Seasons Hotel. Budd & Co. Washington, the brand’s first foray into the U.S. market, is an extension of Budd Shirtmakers in London’s Piccadilly Arcade. It replaces Sterling & Burke, a luxe British clothing and gift store that was at the address for eight years. In addition to the full range of shirting, nightwear and accessories from Budd Shirtmakers, the store offers leather goods from Tusting, fine luggage from GlobeTrotter, timepieces from award-winning British watchmakers Bremont and products from the ultra-exclusive Florentine apothecary Santa Maria Novella. An in-house
Under reconstruction: the Whole Foods Market at 2233 Wisconsin Ave. NW on April 19. Georgetowner photo men’s tailoring service is also available. The company writes that “it will also operate as a community space by opening up their second-floor lounge for public and private events tailored to the Budd & Co. customer, Georgetown and the Washington area as a whole. Independently from the store, the upstairs lounge is Budd & Co.’s opportunity to engage the local community through a series of social events — more info to come in the coming weeks.”
IN: GREEN ALMOND PANTRY
The Mediterranean cafe counter and market from chef-owner Cagla Onal reopens Georgetown on May 13. Located within the Grace Street Collective at 3210 Grace Street NW, the new location offers nearly double the seating and takes advantage of an open kitchen concept to bring forward Onal’s
love for simply prepared, high-quality ingredients. “In a way, Georgetown’s Rose Park farmers market is where it all started, so it’s like we’ve come full circle,” says Onal, whose first name roughly translates to “green almond” in her native Turkey. “And with spring here and all the beautiful ingredients that come with the season, this just feels right. We’re really excited to be back and to be cooking again.” The rotating menu will feature a mix of Green Almond Pantry classics, including freshly made focaccia, salads and dips, sandwiches, braised lamb and roasted fish, and an array of cakes—hours will span Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. See more Business Ins & Outs online at Georgetowner.com.
Back on the Mat at Down Dog Yoga: Interview with New CEO BY C AR RINGTON C. TA R R If Down Dog Yoga’s new CEO, Daniel Brindley, could convey one message to the Georgetown community, it’s that after 13 months of pandemic shutdown, the popular yoga studio has reopened for business and is here to stay. “Down Dog is not going anywhere,” said Brindley, 42. “We are committed for the long haul. There is no doubt in my mind we are back and going to keep at it.” The studio — which opened in a converted garage by the C&O Canal in 2003 — thrived in its current spaces at 1229 34th St. NW (formerly home to Govinda Gallery) until the pandemic struck last year. Ultimately, the flagship studio, along with Down Dog’s Virginia locations in Herndon, Bethesda and Clarendon, were forced to shut their doors. So, like many exercise studio owners, founder Patty Ivey pivoted to offer classes online. A year later, with the Bethesda and Clarendon studios still closed, Ivey believes she found in Brindley the perfect person to helm Down Dog Yoga and oversee the return to in-person classes. “He is the ONLY person I trusted to have my back, who loves DDY as if it is his own,” Ivey wrote in an email. “He had the smarts and the grit to
navigate DDY and the teams through the past year. He has been a blessing.” Brindley co-owns music venues Jammin’ Java in Vienna, Virginia, and Union Stage at the Wharf, while managing several other establishments. An avid yoga practitioner, his love for Down Dog’s brand of hot yoga began more than a decade ago. “I walked into the Herndon studio for first time in 2010,” said Brindley, who lives in Reston, Virginia, with his wife and 3 ½-year-old. “The rest is history. I was hooked pretty much immediately.” He went on to train with Baron Baptiste, founder of the vinyasa power yoga method practiced at Down Dog, and then with Ivey. He also became a yoga instructor himself. Brindley’s new position was a logical career progression. “Patty and I have always compared notes,” he said. “We own smallto-medium businesses and have a lot in common. We’ve had coffee a dozen times over the years. We chatted in the early days of the pandemic. It was a natural thing — some people left, and I ended up coming in.” For Brindley and Ivey, it was a tough decision to close two studios for in-person classes. He received emails from clients who were “heartbroken,” he said. However,
Down Dog Yoga’s new CEO, Daniel Brindley the decision allowed their other two studios to stay open. “Daniel and I took a deep breath on the daily, and committed to oneday-at-a-time and kept making decisions — some harder than others — that served the greater mission of DDY,” Ivey wrote. Fortunately, for students who can’t attend in-person classes, Down Dog Yoga still offers virtual classes at downdogyoga.com and via the Down Dog app. “All along I was thinking, ‘I’m not gonna let the yoga die,’” said Brindley, who’s also teaching classes at the studio. “I’m not doing this for money, [or] for personal ambition — I’m not letting this yoga, in particular, go away.”
And while he wears two hats, working in the worlds of music and yoga, Brindley noted that it’s yoga that changes people’s lives. “My real love is yoga — in terms of beliefs and what I share,” he said. “What we do [at Down Dog] isn’t just a workout. We’re not doing gym yoga.” Brindley has been hard at work these past months prepping the Georgetown studio for the reopening, including deep cleaning, adding a fresh coat of paint and overhauling the HVAC system. Not only is the space much improved, but Greenheart Juice Shop is opening next door. “What a corner that’s going to be,” he said, proudly. Passionate as Brindley is about Down Dog Yoga, he recognizes that even with mask-wearing and limited capacity (10, as of this writing), it may take time for clients to reacclimate to in-person classes. But that passion is what impels him to persevere. “Nothing is normal right now,” he said. “But here we are, reopening. We are going to make it. And we are giving ourselves a minute to get our feet under us … People want and need and appreciate what we’ve got,” he continued. “It’s kind of a miracle that we are still here. I just hope people say, ‘Let’s get out and support these guys and not take it for granted.’” GMG, INC.
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for a five-year contract as a police officer in Bermuda. There were 800 applicants. “The salary was about two-and-a-half times what I was getting in Liverpool,” he explained. Bermingham met his wife Ann, a nurse from Allentown, Pennsylvania, in Bermuda; they moved to Washington, D.C., late in 1978. Having made the transition from policeman to commercial photographer — it began with fingerprint and crime-scene photography — he decided to relocate to the nation’s capital since “anybody who’s anybody is going to go to D.C.” There were (and are) “such a variety of people,” he said, “lobbyists, politicians, diplomats … not like a bunch of lawyers and doctors.” Back then, the boutique Smith’s of Bermuda had a store in Alexandria, Virginia. (A location in McLean, Virginia, recently closed.) Leveraging that connection, Bermingham showed his portfolio to the manager, “a very affable Scots guy,” who “bought about 25 large scenes of Bermuda and put them up in the store.” After doing “some photography sessions of the clothes,” he was permitted to set up a studio on the second floor of Smith’s, where his work was displayed to shoppers. “I was also bringing clients,” he pointed out, so it was “a win-win.” In 1987, Bermingham bought a building in McLean. Why McLean? For one thing, “the families tended to be bigger in McLean.” For another, that studio drew not only from Alexandria but from Great Falls, Virginia, and Potomac, Maryland. Even better, the
McLean clients “would order a 30-by-40 portrait,” larger than the typical Alexandria size. “Do the math,” he said. The one person Bermingham counts as “the most influential” in his career development. He photographed her family and then went on to take portraits of almost ambassador in Washington. Those VIPSs he can name include Richard Nixon, Charles and Camilla, Gen. Colin Powell, some rockn-rollers and, most recently, our very own Mayor Muriel Bowser. Bermingham maintained the McLean studio for 30 years, along the way relocating from Alexandria — his daughter Scarlett was “a lifer” at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School — to the Watergate. Moving into Watergate South, where he first lived in the complex, required an interview with the board, represented by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband Martin. The other candidate at the time was Plácido Domingo, then artistic director of Washington National Opera. Bermingham later photographed the justice in her chambers, with his daughter, “a big RBG fan,” flying in from California to meet her. He didn’t photograph “Marty,” he said, “but I did see him a lot in the Safeway, because he would buy the food,” as the cook for the Ginsburg household. The connection to Domingo bore fruit, too. Over 10 years, Bermingham photographed some 500 WNO singers, also going along on the company’s Japan tour in 2002. Though he says, “I mentally rehearse
every session,” Bermingham has found from long experience that “it never happens that way.” A portrait session relies on “sort of an unspoken tacit complicity” that sometimes isn’t there at the start. For example, Washington Speakers Bureau hired him to photograph George Will in his Georgetown office — and “George Will didn’t want to be photographed.” Luckily, Bermingham was able to “get him engaged in baseball and Margaret Thatcher.” Connecting through conversation and eye contact is important to how he works. “You can watch people change,” he said. “They’re almost like a brick wall … you watch the hand movements.” And he enjoys the interaction: “There’s nothing more exciting than being in a portrait session. I have to come down after a session.” Apart from portraiture, Bermingham is devoted to photographing the landscape of Biddeford Pool, Maine. The tiny seacoast community, between Kennebunkport and Portland, is within the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. After summering in Bermuda for years, he visited the area with a friend for the weekend and, captivated, ended up buying two cottages. Bermingham takes about 10,000 photographs in and around Biddeford Pool every summer. In June, his daughter will get married there. Though he has sold some large Maine landscape photographs, it’s “something you do for your soul,” he said. After all these years, remarked the ex-cop from Liverpool: “I’ve never tired of photography, never said, ‘That’s enough.’ ”
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Diamonds Are Forever A LABOR-OF-LOVE RENO RESTORED THE LUSTER OF THIS 1931 GEM BY SUS AN BODIKE R The Manor House has always been a standout. Although not much is known about architect M.C. Nichols — not even his first name — he left an impressive legacy: the red-brick, Tudor-inspired home at 3730 W St. NW. Built in 1931 for the then-princely sum of $13,000 in up-and-coming Glover Park, the private retreat is set back above the street, surrounded by landscaped grounds rich with azaleas, dogwoods, holly bushes, Leland cypress trees, wisteria and seasonal flowers — a view for all seasons. The current owners had long loved this house. When it finally became theirs, they began what turned into a decadeslong renovation. “There’s not a surface we haven’t touched,” they admitted. And you can believe it. Every room has been reimagined and refined, with vintage architectural elements, custom millwork and unique touches inside and out. It now offers 4,800 square feet of lightfilled living space on four levels, with five
bedrooms, four full baths and two half baths (plus an outdoor shower hidden on a side deck), wood-burning fireplaces and a conservatory/sunroom. There is also a onecar garage with a private driveway. The detached single-family home, the only one in Glover Park, is on the market for $3.5 million. Many of the furnishings, which were designed specifically for the Manor House’s unique configuration, are available for purchase. A flagstone-and-brick compass rose is placed squarely before the arched entryway, which leads to a foyer revealing the family room and kitchen to the left and the formal living room and dining room to the right. Large French doors and windows bring in light from all sides of the house and open to private decks and gardens. A diamond theme repeats throughout the family room, subtly connecting the brickwork pattern on the façade to the Harlequin-paned leaded windows and diamond-patterned textiles, fireplace
medallions and stylish radiator covers. The chef’s kitchen features an island with a curved granite cooktop and countertop, seating four. Running along two rear walls is extensive distressed white cabinetry with thoughtfully designed dividers and storage systems, set off by a tile backsplash, its pattern painted trompe-l’oeil style on the switch plates. There is also a concealed Sub-Zero French door refrigerator/freezer, a Wolf microwave and a JennAir oven. Off the kitchen is a south-facing sunporch/ conservatory/mudroom with an exposed brick wall, a ceiling with faux-painted clouds and sky and two walls of windows. Completing the tour of the main level, one encounters an intimate dining room with terra cotta-painted walls, oversized windows and a built-in bar with glass shelving and a mirrored back, then a long living room with a massive fireplace, a custom grate designed to match the pattern of the transom above the main door and walls faux-painted to look like fabric. On the second level, there are three bedrooms (one is currently set up as a traditional guest room/library with built-in bookcases) with ensuite or shared baths that are sleek but not cold. The bedrooms pay homage to exotic locales with décor and
color palettes reflective of their assigned cultures: East Africa and East India. And all the rooms have tall windows with custom plantation shutters and deep closets with interior lighting. The primary suite is on the third level. The bedroom has built-in armoires, chests with cedar box drawers, closets with hidden storage panels and clever details like a flip-down television screen mounted on the ceiling and, by the bed, individually controlled dimmable reading lights. The dressing room boasts shelving sized to accommodate shoes and boots and extensive hanging and folded storage areas. The spalike bath features a dual sink vanity, a commodious Jacuzzi and a walk-in shower with frameless glass doors. On the lower level is a bright in-law suite — it’s above grade — with a powder room, a full bath, a bedroom, a kitchen, a laundry room and a library/living room. The suite leads out to the garage and parking pad. The Manor House is listed for $3.5 million with Washington Fine Properties. For details or to schedule a COVID-safe tour, contact Nancy Itteilag at 202-905-7762 or nancy. itteilag@wfp.com. For a virtual tour, visit https://spws.homevisit.com/hvid/330484.
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Models and maquettes emerge from the most personal moment of a sculptor’s process. They are the first attempts of an artist exploring an idea and experimenting with form and materials. “Objects from the Studio” brings together maquettes, sketches and other objects from sculptors’ studios to explore how outdoor sculptures are made. The show offers insight into the creative process of such artists
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as Kendall Buster, Richard Deutsch, John L. Dreyfuss, Carol Brown Goldberg, Dalya Luttwak and Foon Sham. Displaying works in a wide range of materials — bronze, wood, wax and acrylic — which have not previously been shared with the public, the exhibition offers insight into how outdoor artworks are made, while highlighting the Kreeger’s expansive sculpture garden.
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“Purple Antelope Space Squeeze,” 1987. Sam Gilliam. Courtesy Phillips Collection.
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‘SEEING DIFFERENTLY: THE PHILLIPS COLLECTS FOR A NEW CENTURY’ The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, opened its doors 100 years ago this year. Its founder and namesake, Duncan Phillips, sought to share his “living” collection in a welcoming space and to inspire others to find beauty through the eyes of artists. Building on this founding principle, “Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century”
both commemorates the museum’s centennial and launches its next chapter. Spread throughout the entire museum, the installation explores the complexities of our ever-changing world through themes of identity, history, place and the senses — with special focus on recent acquisitions that showcase how the museum’s dynamic collection continues to evolve.
Two exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts survey artists of extraordinary vision and beauty. “Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend” explores the mixed-media works through which Clark addresses race and visibility and seeks to redress history. This exhibition — the first survey of Clark’s 25-year career — includes the artist’s well-known sculptures made from pocket combs, human hair and thread, as well as works created from flags, money, beads, cotton plants, pencils, books and even a typewriter and a hair salon chair. Clark transmutes each of these everyday objects through her application of a range of fiber-art techniques: weaves, stitches, folds, braids, dyes, pulls, twists, presses, snips and ties.
“Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood” examines Mark’s depictions of girls and young women living in a variety of circumstances around the globe. An icon of modern photography, Mark created compassionate and candid portraits of subjects living outside of mainstream society. From street children in Seattle to circus performers in India, she captured the lives and stories of individuals with empathy, humor and candor. While Mark photographed people from all walks of life, she was particularly interested in children. “I don’t like to photograph children as children,” she said. “I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I’m always looking for the side of who they might become.”
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After briefly opening its doors last summer, then reclosing in November, the National Gallery of Art’s West Building is finally reopening again on May 14. Unlike the previous COVID-era reopening, which restricted museum access to a limited cluster of galleries on the ground floor, most galleries on both floors of the museum will be open. The East Building will reopen in June. The welcome kiosk’s new interactive screen features gesture-based technology to offer guests a safe, touchless option for exploring the collections. Visitors can customize their experience by browsing thematic tours that feature popular topics and artists.
New on view is an installation by photographer Carrie Mae Weems that engages with the plaster version from 1900 of one of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s masterpieces, the “Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial,” a frieze on the Boston Common honoring an African American Civil War regiment formed in the North. Together with the memorial, Weems’s seven-part series of inkjet prints explores our nation’s struggle to achieve racial equity, as well as the strength and sacrifice of those who have continued to wage this battle.
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Artechouse’s fourth annual cherry blossom-inspired installation, “Renewal 2121,” on view through Sept. 6, seeks to inspire hope amid a global pandemic and concerns of climate change. The installation transports us into the future, to an industrial city where nature fights to survive amid an overdeveloped metropolis. However, there is a hopeful message to be discovered as blossoms are seen peeking through the plastic, concrete and neon lights. The Gun Violence Project. Courtesy NBM.
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GUN VIOLENCE MEMORIAL PROJECT, “JUSTICE IS BEAUTY” The Gun Violence Memorial Project is a tribute to the thousands of lives lost to gun violence in America. The installation, on view through Sept. 25, 2022, comprises four houses, each built of 700 glass bricks, a reference to the number of people in the U.S. killed by guns every week. Over time, the bricks will continue to be filled with remembrance objects donated by immediate family members of loved ones taken by gun violence. The houses currently hold hundreds of objects — including photographs, baby shoes, graduation tassels, jewelry, a jump rope and a prayer book — that reveal the personal narratives of each victim. The installation is presented in conjunction with “Justice Is Beauty: The Work of MASS
Design Group.” MASS Design Group made headlines in 2018 for its first major domestic project: the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which commemorates more than 4,000 victims of racially motivated lynching. Its other projects include schools and hospitals in Rwanda, a cholera treatment center in Haiti, and a health care center for homeless people in Boston. The exhibition uses photographs, videos, renderings and models to examine how the firm’s nonprofit status enables it to take on ambitious projects that traditional design firms might not, and how its collective organizational structure supports its mission to address society’s most challenging problems through socially conscious design strategies.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
As part of the Smithsonian’s phased reopening, the National Museum of the American Indian will reopen on May 21. Returning to view: “The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire” (through June 27) and “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations.”
HILLWOOD ESTATE, MUSEUM AND GARDENS
For those longing to escape the present
and bask in quirky old-world elegance, a visit to Hillwood, the estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), is always a treat. The opulent French drawing room, the “high-tech” (by midcentury standards) kitchen and the endless stylistic flourishes crossing 18th-century French décor with the American Gilded Age make Hillwood one of Washington’s most legendary homes.
TUDOR PLACE
Georgetown’s Tudor Place is another oldworld escapist delight. From 1805 to 1983, Tudor Place, a model of Federal-period architecture, was home to six generations of Martha Washington’s descendants. The collection includes over 18,000 decorative objects and the largest Washington Collection outside of Mount Vernon.
GLENSTONE
If, somehow, you have not yet heard of Glenstone, the Willy Wonka museum of postwar art in Potomac, Maryland, created by Mitch and Emily Rales … just Google it. Get tickets if you can and, for goodness’ sake, go.
“Emine Dressed Up for Republic Day, Trabzon, Turkey,” 1965 (printed later). Mary Ellen Mark. Courtesy NMWA.
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Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen and Conan O’Brien, will perform at Wolf Trap on July 10.
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CLASSICAL AND CHORAL MUSIC
Streaming in Washington Performing Arts’ Home Delivery Plus series from June 4 to 10 will be a performance of Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” by German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati, second-prize winner in the 2014 International Bach Competition in Leipzig. The National Symphony Orchestra will be back in action at Wolf Trap on July 1 for “Fifty Years Together: A Celebration of Wolf Trap.” JoAnn Falletta will conduct a concert with an all-women trio of guest artists: actress and singer Cynthia Erivo, opera star Christine Goerke and pianist Joyce Yang, a Van Cliburn silver medalist. On July 2 and 3, Roberto Kalb will be on the podium for “Sweeney Todd in Concert.” Then, on July 8 and 9, Jonathon Heyward will conduct a performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto in A major with soloist Francesca Dego. Another anniversary: Gay Men’s Chorus, Washington, will mark its 40th with a 75-minute retrospective streaming from June 5 to 20. The program will feature the premiere of an anthem written for the occasion by Broadway’s Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, appearances by GMCW ensembles Potomac Fever, Rock Creek Singers and Seasons of Love and archival footage of past performances. Available for streaming from June 11 to 30: “Resilience,” a cross-disciplinary concert by The Washington Chorus using choral music, filmmaking and poetry to explore the power of music and the human spirit.
POP, ROCK AND COUNTRY
Founded 55 years ago, The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, has kept soldiering on in the face of pandemic-related cancelations and postponements. A few upcoming in-person shows of note: the Allman Betts Band (June 13), Pure Prairie League (June 28), Asleep at the Wheel (July 8) and, at age 86, Herb Alpert (July 27). Did you think 86 was getting up there? Tony Bennett, who will turn 95 on Aug. 3,
will bring his “I Left My Heart Tour” and his daughter Antonia to Strathmore on July 9. And there’s another 50th anniversary, of the band America, which will perform on Aug. 13. Two more highlights of Wolf Trap’s summer lineup: Max Weinberg’s Jukebox on July 10 and 11 and progressive mandolinist Chris Thile on July 24 and 25.
THEATER
“All’s well that ends well” is a good catchphrase to keep in mind as the pandemic winds down and performing arts organizations look to transition from virtual to in-person events. So let’s step off with the comedy “All’s Well That Ends Well,” onstage at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, beginning on Aug. 5. In the meantime, the company is mounting “Macbeth” and, starting June 17, “Henry V.” The shows will play in repertory throughout the summer. Sticking with Shakespeare, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library, will stream “Where We Belong” by Mohegan theater-maker Madeline Sayet from June 14 through July 11. Directed by Mei Ann Teo, the solo piece recounts Sayet’s experience when she traveled to England in 2015 to pursue a Ph.D. in Shakespeare studies, finding a country that would rather not acknowledge its ongoing role in colonialism. And what about D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, pray tell? STC is back in Sidney Harman Hall with “Blindness,” an immersive, pandemic-inspired sound and light installation imported from London’s Donmar Warehouse. Based on José Saramago’s novel and starring Juliet Stevenson, “Blindness” has been extended through June 13. Likewise echoing our pandemic struggles, Studio Theatre will stream “Tender Age” by George Brant, directed by Henry Godinez, from July 2 to 25. In the play, a man guarding a warehouse near the Texas border full of children separated from their families faces a moral reckoning when an epidemic reaches the facility. GALA Hispanic Theatre will continue
to welcome a reduced-capacity in-person audience to the Tivoli in Columbia Heights with “Ella es tango,” an original musical revue conceived by co-founder Hugo Medrano to highlight the contribution of women composers and singers to this traditionally male-dominated genre. Running from June 2 to 20, the production features texts by Patricia Suárez Cohen (some songs are in English) and dancing by artists from Argentina and the U.S. On Wednesdays, you can dance tango after the show. From June 14 through July 11, Round House Theatre will stream the final show of its 2020-21 season, Young Jean Lee’s “We’re Gonna Die,” directed by Paige Hernandez, “an experience that is part one-woman stage play, part live-band rock concert and totally life-affirming.” Regina Aquino will make her Round House debut as the Singer. Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, which specializes in musical shows, will present two this summer. “After Midnight,” with mid-June dates to be announced, will star Nova Y. Payton in a “song and dance extravaganza … set to the swinging sounds of Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen and more and framed by the poems of Langston Hughes.” In early August, “Detroit ’67” by Dominique Morisseau, will tell a story of family and civic unrest to a Motown accompaniment. A year after “Detroit ’67,” during the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions, William F. Buckley, on the right, and Gore
Vidal, on the left, matched tongues and wits. Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri depicts their televised, borderline-physical duel in “Inherit the Windbag,” adapted by Mosaic Theater as an eight-episode streaming package available through June 30. Other 20th-century celebrities — contralto Marian Anderson and physicist Albert Einstein — will be portrayed in the Ford’s Theatre production of “My Lord, What a Night,” still to be scheduled. Finally, Inez Barlatier will host a special children’s performance at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, on July 20: “Ayiti: Stories and Songs from Haiti.”
DANCE
From June 1 to 6, Dance Place will present DanceAfrica, DC 2021, a “free virtual festival and in-person gathering,” hosted by Griot Mama Sylvia Soumah. The 34th annual event, celebrating the spirit of the African Diaspora, will include performances, master classes and oral histories. The next offering of “NEXTsteps,” The Washington Ballet’s series premiering ballets created on TWB dancers by emerging choreographers, will be streamed in June on Marquee TV. The featured choreographers are: New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer Silas Farley; former San Francisco Ballet soloist and returning TWB choreographer Dana Genshaft; and Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch.
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KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB
‘The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915’ A DENSELY WRITTEN, FACT-PACKED ACCOUNT OF A PIVOTAL PERIOD IN U.S. HISTORY R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y “The Age of Acrimony” is an apt title for the combustible years from 1865 to 1915, when, according to the book’s subtitle, Americans fought to fix their democracy. That 50-year battle during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age bruised the country and left wounds we feel to this day. Jon Grinspan, curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, creatively tells the story by wrapping the incendiary era around the lives of a Philadelphia congressman and his activist daughter. Rep. William Darrah Kelley (1814-1890), a lifelong abolitionist, abhorred slavery. In
fact, Kelley’s opposition to slavery forced him to leave the 19th-century Democratic Party and travel to Ripon, Wisconsin, where he and other Northern congressmen formed the Republican Party. His enemies called him “Pig Iron Kelley” because he represented the iron and steel districts of Pennsylvania. A fierce protectionist, he always voted in favor of tariffs to shield the industry from foreign competition. They called his daughter, Florence Kelley (1859-1932), a labor activist of stern demeanor, “that fire-eater in the black dress.” Kelley arrived in Washington, D.C., at the
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same time Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House. The new president enjoyed meeting the new congressman because he could look him in the eye. The men, both long, lean and lanky, became friends. Both were part of a new breed of “low-born but driven politicos,” replacing “the elite antebellum statesmen who had been born to be senators.” Both also belonged to an era when most Americans could get on a train “and tell, at a glance, how their fellow passengers would vote. Race, class, region, religion, occupation, ethnicity, even a style of hat or preference for [alcohol] all indicated Republican or Democrat.” In those years, rural evangelical Yankees, Protestants and upwardly mobile professionals who sipped whiskey in bars and wore snap-brim hats were Republicans. Democrats were immigrant Catholics from the South who wore newsboy caps and drank ale in beer joints. They were the “stupider” party, “half Ku-Kluxer, half Irish-rioter.” Republicans were “moralistic crooks.” Meanwhile, Blacks “enjoyed” the same nonexistent voting rights in Kelley’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as did their counterparts in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The abolitionist Kelley, who also supported the rights of industrial laborers and women, became famous for “speechifying.” He didn’t simply make speeches; he played bass, trumpet and trombone in his own orchestra of oration, riveting audiences with his “graveyard eloquence” and “cemetery roar.” Having been born into poverty, “He shouted his way to wealth” and built a mansion for his family called the Elms. In April of 1865, President Lincoln asked Kelley to join the delegation to Fort Sumter to mark the end of the Civil War. “All was bright and beautiful and cheerful,” the congressman recalled of the trip. Then, en route to Washington, his ship passed a small boat whose captain shouted: “Why is not your flag at half-mast? Have you not heard of the President’s death?” Ironically, the man whose mesmerizing voice had roused thousands died from cancer of the jaw, tongue and throat. While Kelley had little formal education, his daughter grew up in privilege. She embraced her father’s progressive politics, but lacked his charisma. When Florence was accepted for advanced study at Cornell, she bragged that she’d been “relieved of the burden of the stupids.” An intense young woman, she intimidated guests when she accompanied her father to Washington parties. One journalist wrote: “The young girls in society were just a little afraid of her; the young men were not entirely at ease in her presence, and old legislators were very careful about statistics when talking to her.” Grinspan describes the nation’s capital during the period as “a town of
neighborhoods named Swampoodle and Murder Bay, centered on a National Mall fringed by a filthy canal, which stank like ‘the ghosts of twenty thousand drowned cats.’” Despite its stench, Washington held an allure no other city could match: “New York had finer food, Boston had wittier writers and San Francisco had superior saloons, but Washington had power. And that power attracted, if not the wealthiest or the wisest, those most burning for place.” Not all historians write with the verve and dash of Grinspan, whose titles snap, crackle and pop: “Where do all those cranks come from?” and “Reformers who Eat Roast Beef” and “Investigate, Agitate, Legislate.” He starts his foray into the central issue of the Gilded Age — which was not class, race, industrialization or immigration, but rather the political paralysis that made addressing those issues impossible (sound a bit familiar?) — as follows: “Streetcar Number 126 wobbles its way up Lancaster Avenue into West Philadelphia.” It’s disheartening to read that the endemic voter suppression of 1892 lives on into 2021, judging from the current news coverage of the white, male legislators in Georgia who signed a bill behind closed doors to restrict Black voters. The social and economic upheavals of more than 100 years ago, plus the searing political partisanship that undermined faith in democracy at that time, are all too recognizable today. Yet Grinspan contends that 20th-century democracy has grown more reasonable, more enlightened and more transparent, writing: “The tribal, nearly biological view of partisanship, and demonization of the rival party as ‘enemies of the human race’ has weakened.” Hmm. Reading that while still feeling the whiplash of the Trump presidency, one might wonder but still take hope in the author’s conclusion that our democracy is elastic, “with plenty of room for ugliness without apocalypse, and for reform without utopia.” This review originally appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books. Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.” She serves on the board of Reading Is Fundamental, the nation’s largest children’s literacy nonprofit.
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