Georgetowner's October 12, 2016 Issue

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RINGING TRUE

From the Volta Bureau to National Geographic, Alexander Graham Bell's Legacy Lives Here

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Alleluia! Mt. Zion Turns 200

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Georgetown’s Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Washington’s oldest African American congregation, celebrates 200 years this month.

G.U.’s John Thompson Center Opens

BY T Y L E R H E T U

On Oct. 7, Georgetown University officials cut the ribbon to open the John R. Thompson Jr. Intercollegiate Athletic Center — a state-of-the-art facility with the championship coach’s spirit.

A sculpture of coach John Thompson Jr. stands in the foyer of Georgetown University’s new building for student athletes.

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Team USA Show Gets Students Close to Olympians

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Georgetown University was the host of the 2016 Team USA Awards ceremony for Olympic and Paralympic athletes Sept. 28.

Letter from the Publisher

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n Labor Day weekend, I celebrated my 20th anniversary at The Georgetowner. As the third publisher of this community newspaper, I can say I’ve seen many changes in Georgetown and in the publishing business.

The truth is: I love my job. I work with a very loyal group of intelligent and caring people. They are loyal not only to The Georgetowner but also to this community and the city as a whole. Our job is to inform while connecting the residents to issues confronting our city and to each other. Covering everything from the local news and politics to the arts, businesses, large and small, to restaurants and galas has its challenges.

Today, the biggest challenge, however, is working with the Internet — a blessing and a curse for the newspaper industry. As newspapers scramble to determine how to make a living, while adhering to journalistic standards and ethics, we will trust our instincts and adhere to our principles. The Georgetowner Newspaper and its website are there, keeping an eye on all the changes.

I get little signs telling me that I’m at the right place and time. I recently realized that The Georgetowner at 62 points to the year of my birth, 1962. In turn, my being 54 points to the year The Georgetowner was born, 1954. I

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Ringing True: the Legacy GOO D WO RK S & of Alexander Graham GOO D T IME S Bell 30 Friends of Rose Park Celebrate at Evermay RE A L E S TAT E 30 Mount Zion Officially 18 Sales Marks Its Bicentennial 18 Featured Property 30 The George Town Club 19 Commercial Listings Hits the Big Five-O 20 Le Decor Campaign 21 Auction Block 30 AG Bell Celebrates 125th Anniversary F OOD & W I N E 30 Fall 2016 Gala Guide 23 Cocktail of the Month: FIND US ON FACEBOOK

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ON THE COVER

One of America’s greatest inventors, Alexander Graham Bell obtained the first patent for the telephone in 1876.

As shown on the cover, he strikes a fine pose in his later years. Bell has many connections to Washington, D.C., and Georgetown. Photo courtesy AG Bell Association.

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Music Director Scott Tucker traces the evolution of the madrigal form as it crosses Europe. Tickets are $35. Visit dumbartonconcerts.org. Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.

October 14 Vibe Collective at the Library The Vibe Collective is dedicated to laying down the tight grooves and inventive improvisations that typified the Afro-Cuban music scenes of New York and San Francisco starting in the 1960s. The backgrounds of the musicians range from mambo, rumba, samba, calypso, timba, jazz and afrobeat to the works of Cal Tjader, Dave Pike, Tito Puente, and Mongo Santamaria. Visit capitalfringe. org. MLK Jr. Library, 901 G St. NW.

October 16 Garden Conservancy Tours

Participants in this Open Days program will go on self-guided tours of three private gardens in Washington, D.C., including the Barbara Downs Garden. Proceeds benefit the Garden Conservancy. No reservations required, rain or shine. Tickets are $7 per garden, free for age 12 and under. Visit opendaysprogram.org. Barbara Downs Garden, 3321 P St. NW.

'The Rocky Horror Show'

Richard O’Brien’s modern classic is a musical tribute to the golden age of sci-fi “B” movies. Brad and Janet are celebrating their engagement when their car breaks down in the middle of the night at a mysterious castle. This rock-androll musical comedy, which contains mature content and adult humor, features many hit songs, including the notorious “Time Warp.” Tickets are $20 to $55. For details, visit workhousearts.org. W3 Theatre, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, Virginia.

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This year’s Capital City Symphony Halloween program, conducted by Victoria Gau, features the ghosts and ghouls of SaintSaëns’s “Danse Macabre” and Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain,” along with the fairy-tale world of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” Instrument “petting zoo” at 2:30 p.m. Costumes welcome. Tickets are $25 for adults, $15 for students and free for age 16 and under. For details, visit capitalcitysymphony.org. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE.

October 15 Choral Arts Chamber Singers

The opening concert in the Dumbarton Concerts series will take the audience to 16thand 17th-century Italy for an evening of vo-

Cathedral Choral Society: Berlioz ‘Te Deum’

The Cathedral Choral Society offers mighty music fit for a momentous anniversary year,

including Saint-Saëns’s “Organ Symphony” and Berlioz’s epic setting of the “Te Deum,” a hymn for celebratory occasions. Tickets are $25 to $79. For details, visit cathedralchoralsociety.org. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

October 20 555 Book Club at Melrose Hotel

The Melrose Georgetown’s 555 Book Club — featuring food, drinks and lively conversation — debuts with “The Year of Eating Dangerously” by Tom Parker Bowles, in which Bowles travels the world, eating and writing. To sign up, email heather.renz@ melrosehoteldc.com. 2430 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

'In Julia's Kitchen' Book Signing

A book talk by Pamela Heyne on her new book, "In Julia's Kitchen: Practical and Convivial Kitchen Design Inspired by Julia Child." The only architect to have ever interviewed Julia Child, Heyne will talk about Child's real and TV kitchens, discuss social problem with the super open kitchens of modern times and show beautiful examples of modern designs (some from Georgetown residents) that are utilitarian and welcoming.

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Taste of Tudor Place

Participants will sample a variety of heritage foods and distinctive beers, wines and liquors representing notable eras in Tudor Place’s — and the nation’s — past. Tickets

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October 25 Victoria Browning Wyeth at Glen Echo

The Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio present photographer Victoria Browning Wyeth, granddaughter of Andrew Wyeth and niece of Jamie Wyeth, who will talk about her work, her personal memories of her family and conversations with her grandfather and uncle about their work. A reception will follow. Tickets are $40. For details, visit yellowbarnstudio.com. 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Maryland.

October 28 Halloween Poe Readings in Georgetown

Actors from Guillotine Theatre will communicate with the spirits and read a witches’ brew of poems and short stories

by Edgar Allan Poe, including “Morella,” “Hop-Frog,” “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven.”

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ANC Rejects DDOT’s One-Side, Zone-Only Parking Plan A D.C. parking proposal that would have reserved one side of neighborhood streets exclusively for the use of residents’ cars evoked an almost hour-long multi-round discussion at the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission (2E) meeting Oct. 4. In fact, for the first time in the memory of some reporters there, every one of the eight commissioners commented on this one item.

So did many in the audience.

The immediate action was to decide how to respond to the letter from the District Department of Transportation proposing the one-side-of-the-street resident-parking concept for the entire city. ANC Chairman Ron Lewis suggested a compromise letter that would acknowledge receipt of the “interesting” proposal and a promise to discuss it. In the parking scheme, Georgetown is part of Zone 2.

But other commissioners wanted to make a strong stand to begin with, mainly against the concept. There was a lively (but civil) debate about whether or not the idea would help businesses that depended on short-term parkers on nearby residential streets. There were questions about whether long-term parking privileges should go to residents’ dinner guests, repair and cleaning personnel, dog walkers, babysitters and the like. There was pushback about this being a citywide proposal — and not a uniquely Georgetown one.

Commissioners seemed to agree that residents’ ability to park as close to their front doors as possible should be a goal of any proposal. But then what? Discussion about parking has been going on for almost four years.

The Citizen Association of Georgetown supports the DDOT proposal; the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the Georgetown Business Association do not.

Finally, Commissioner Reed Howard, a Georgetown University student, urged the commission to vote immediately for a response letter that strongly repudiated the concept. “Surely there are other more flexible options,” Howard argued. Lewis called for a vote and the strong-opposition letter won five

to three (commissioners Lewis, Bill Starrels and Jeff Jones voted against the resolution).

Deputy Mayor Prefers Meyer as Hyde-Addison Swing Space Deputy Mayor for D.C. Public Schools Jennifer Niles is strongly recommending that the more than 300 Hyde-Addison Elementary School students at 3219 O St. NW be moved to Meyer Elementary School in the U Street Corridor next year, when construction is set to begin at Hyde-Addison. But it’s not a done deal.

Here is what Niles told The Georgetowner Oct. 7: “There are two viable options for swing space for Hyde Addison. One is Meyer and the other is UDC when Merch [Fashion Merchandising] students return to their modernized building. The UDC option, however, would require the project to be delayed a year.

We searched high and low for a local option and we couldn’t find one. Unfortunately, Hardy Middle School is not viable because it programmatically does not work. The best thing for current and future students is to get students into a beautiful new building as soon as possible, which means my strong recommendation is to swing to Meyer.”

The project to add additional classrooms, a cafeteria, a gymnasium and an updated playground for Georgetown’s burgeoning population of youngsters was approved last year. It is estimated that construction will take about two years to complete. But the decision about where the children will be schooled in the meantime has become a saga.

“What do the parents want most?” asked Niles’s assistant Shayne Wells Sept. 30 during a goodbye party for outgoing D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

The Citizens Association of Georgetown will take up the issue at a community meeting Tuesday, Oct. 18, at St. John’s Church, 3240 O St NW. The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be preceded by a 7 p.m. tour of the Hyde-Addison School, which is across the street.

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from Georgetown families. It will require sending 3-year-olds on a bus for what might be as much as an hour a day. This apparently doesn’t bother Niles.”

“It’s what I’m working on,” said Niles, when asked during Henderson’s farewell party.

“The space at Meyer Elementary School near Howard University at Euclid and 11th Streets is available. The Hardy School and Ellington Field is closer but could require temporary classrooms such as trailers.” It could also require a buy-in from Burleith neighbors who previously rejected the idea.

M Street and Wisconsin Avenue Signing Up for Holiday Lights The vision of a stream of thousands of tiny roof lights all along Georgetown’s main retail thoroughfares during the Christmas season is fast looking like it will become a reality. “Every day we’re getting new completed applications and emails from businesses along M Street from the Four Seasons to Key Bridge and along Wisconsin from the waterfront to Book Hill,” said John Wiebenson, operations director of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, which is guiding the new holiday decorations initiative.

Building and shop owners need only apply.

The Georgetown BID will put up the lights and take them down for free. The only cost to the business is to cover the electric bill. “That will amount to about six dollars a month,” Wiebenson said.

Here are two images that depict the lights on the buildings and the wreaths for this holiday season.

In addition, efforts are underway to expand the number and quality of the live wreaths around the shopping area’s streetlights along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue — as well as upgrading the two Christmas trees that stand at the M Street gateways to Georgetown, across from the Four Seasons and at Francis Scott Key Park.

Mayor Responds to Reports of Streetlight Outages Mayor Muriel Bowser swiftly reacted to reports of streetlight outages last month. “We are eager to make our streets safer by making them brighter, so the focus this week is on identifying and reporting outages,” Bowser said in a statement. “To help us identify them

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Community Calendar DATE TO BE DETERMINED CAG Community Meeting: Local Schools

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.

Updates about the Hyde-Addison and Duke Ellington renovations will be shared and discussed at a Citizens Association of Georgetown meeting. At 7 p.m.: reception and tours of Hyde-Addison, 3219 O St. NW; at 7:30 p.m.: program at St. John’s Church, 3240 O St. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 Volta Park Day

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 Georgetown Business Association Reception

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Meeting

The GBA’s monthly networking reception will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. 1655 Avon Place NW. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 CAG Community Meeting: ANC Candidates Forum A moderated panel with the candidates will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The audience will have the opportunity to submit written questions.

Following a 2 p.m. softball game between the east and west sides, there will be food, music and rides from 3 to 6 p.m. 1555 34th St. NW. For details, visit voltapark.org.

The next ANC 2E public meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street at Volta Place, main building. For details, visit anc2e.com/meetings.html.

Please send your community event listing to Editorial@Georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833.

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So Does Leo the Noodle Actor Leonardo DiCaprio also took time off last week from his busy schedule — making politically relevant movies and dating supermodels — to drop in at the White House for an important cause. Leo was there to discuss “Before the Flood,” his new documentary about climate change, with President Obama. The Daily Beast reported that DiCaprio threw a little bit of shade to Donald Trump, who has been known to scoff at the climate-change concept.

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On Oct. 5, mules Dolly and Eva towed "The Georgetown" to be broken apart near Fletcher's Boathouse. A new boat will be launched in 2018 after work on the canal is completed. Photo by Bill Starrels.

faster, I am asking the community to report broken lights to DC311.

“With the launch of Text to DC311, residents now have five ways to report city service issues and make requests to DC311. Residents can text DC311 (3-2-3-1-1), visit 311.dc.gov, use the DC311 mobile app (available from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store), send a tweet to @311dcgov or call a live agent at the 311 call center. Our goal is to make reporting issues as convenient as possible for D.C. residents.

“In the past, I know there have been some questions and concerns about what happens after an issue is reported to DC311. We have heard these concerns, and we are working to address them. At the end of October, we will do a full launch of an updated DC311 website with streamlined request types and more accurate and clearer communication about repair time and status,” she said.

The issue was first brought to light (pun intended) Sept. 16, when Terry Lynch, executive director of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations, and Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels walked around town to count how many streetlights were dim or not working at all and called the lack of light a safety issue. Lynch has surveyed other D.C. neighborhoods as well.

Good Bye to the Georgetown Canal Boat; Hello to Canal Restoration

Georgetown residents, business persons, local politicians and government officials bid a final farewell Oct. 5 to the barge — called "The Georgetown" — that plied, with mule power, the gentle waters of the C&O Canal from 1982 to 2011.

The 90-foot, 17-and-a-half-ton boat was hauled from its resting place to be broken apart near Fletcher's Boathouse north of

Georgetown. For the past four years, it has rested in the canal between 31st Street and Thomas Jefferson Street.

Before the barge departed, Mayor Muriel Bowser, C&O Canal National Park Superintendent Kevin Brandt and Joe Sternlieb, CEO of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, addressed the large crowd gathered next to the canal at Lock 4 and on Thomas Jefferson Street.

The day marked the kickoff of the C&O Canal National Historical Park Georgetown Restoration Project, which involves reconstruction of sections of the canal walls as well as of Locks 3 and 4. A new canal boat and a renovated Georgetown visitor center, staffed by the National Park Service, will follow in 2018.

The lock design was created by Leonardo da Vinci and implemented by George Washington, Brandt said. “It’s time to honor the past in this second century of stewardship of national heritage, and break new ground for a vision of the C&O Canal," he said. "While the canal is 184-and-a-half miles long, more than a million visitors come to Georgetown to see the two miles here.”

Bowser recalled the days when the canal boat entertained and informed school children, adding, "It is part of Georgetown's future." She said she wants to see children enjoying the legacy of the canal in the years ahead.

Sternlieb said the BID's plan for 2028 included a new canal boat, but the possibility of going beyond a mere fix had him and his staff thinking that the restoration of the canal and its towpath in Georgetown could create a kind of "High Line for Washington, D.C." This heightened aspiration created the nonprofit Georgetown Heritage, the board of which is filled with Georgetowners committed to something more than just a new boat.

“The West Wing” and “St. Elmo’s Fire” alum Rob Lowe is becoming an ambassador. No, not the kind who deals with diplomatic relations.

Lowe will serve as ambassador for the Crest Healthier Smiles Project, a nationwide education program that works with Feeding America to donate toothpaste to those who need it most.

CNN’s Brown to Tie Knot, Says The Knot

President Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Courtesy White House. whether there was a VIP line. A person ahead of her turned around and quipped, “You’re in it.” The voice was Oprah’s. Oops.

Professor Macklemore Stops by White House We can’t help but wonder if he got that suit at the thrift shop. Rapper Macklemore, behind hits like “Thrift Shop” and “Downtown,” stopped by the White House Oct. 4 to visit with Vice President Joe Biden and launch a documentary by MTV News about opioid addiction. Macklemore tweeted that the forever-cool VP was “diggin the rattlers” — the rapper’s snakeskin boots.

‘Mean Girls’ Musical to Debut in D.C.—So Fetch!

CNN anchor Pamela Brown has some breaking news of her own — she’s engaged. The 32-year-old said yes to her boyfriend Adam Wright. Wright’s proposal, Brown exclusively told TheKnot.com, came Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” with him dressed in a tux musical is going to debut and Pamela’s beloved dog in D.C. this fall before Bubs wearing a bow tie, heading for Broadway. Fey to which the ring box was is collaborating with her attached. Brown’s ring is composer husband, Jeffrey quite the stunner: a diaRichmond, and with Tony mond solitaire set on a CNN's Award-nominated lyricist gold band from the early 20th Pamela Brown and Nell Benjamin, who recently Wolf Blitzer.

Courtesy Wolf Blitzer. century. The wedding locale worked on “Legally Blonde: The is likely to be her home state Musical.” Hopefully, the musical will premiere of Kentucky, with plenty of bourbon, natuat the Warner Theatre, where all the “cool” rally. First to break the news via Twitter was moms can enjoy a cocktail while they watch.

Brown’s excited co-worker Wolf Blitzer.

In the meantime, we’ll try and stop trying to make fetch happen.

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In what might be the best “oops” moment of this column, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-New York) has committed a D.C. famous (senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, etc.) faux pas. DCist reported that the White House was hosting an event before the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event was delayed, leaving many guests hanging out in line.

Rep. Jackson-Lee was overheard questioning

Two Dozen for the Obamas President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary last week. The president posted on Facebook a photo of the two with the caption: “Dancing through 24 years. Happy anniversary.” The Obamas, who wed on Oct. 3, 1992, marked the occasion in Manhattan with dinner at Cosme, a Mexican restaurant in the Flatiron District. Felicidades!

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Reeling in the Years Mt. Zion, Tudor Place, AG Bell, the George Town Club — and The Georgetowner

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n this most significant and historic of cities, we celebrate anniversaries. Living in Georgetown, you’re never far from its icons.

Our cover story marks the 125th anniversary of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at 35th Street and Volta Place. But we have helped call attention to other milestones this year.

Mt. Zion United Methodist Church on 29th Street is celebrating its 200th anniversary as one of the oldest and most respected places of worship not only in Georgetown but in Washington itself. Generations of the African American community in Georgetown have grown up, prayed, sorrowed, celebrated and passed on here. The larger community shares in its proud history of keeping on keeping on.

Tudor Place on 31st Street is in the midst of celebrating its own bicentennial as a historic jewel in Georgetown. With its connections to George and Martha Washington and to the Civil War, the estate defines why Georgetown is a historic district. Its rolling green frontage, formal gardens and spectacular mansion add up to history incarnate — worthy of a new book, “Tudor Place: America’s Story Lives Here.”

Especially after its recent renovation, the George Town Club on Wisconsin Avenue has been able to combine elegance and informality, a balancing act that the club pulls off with panache. This, we suspect, is the secret of its success, making and keeping it one of Washington’s best places to congregate, celebrate, contemplate and negotiate (not necessarily in that order).

Jack Evans Report

Fighting for HydeAddison Elementary

BY JACK EVANS

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The first issue of The Georgetowner Newspaper — Oct. 7, 1954 — Washington, D.C.

The Georgetowner newspaper turned 62 on Oct. 7. That’s a long time, with three separate owner-publishers and a parade of talented writers, editors, photographers and designers. Our shared and continuing goal is to make The Georgetowner an enduring part of this village and city — along with its digital version, Georgetowner.com. We’ve even given ourselves a birthday gift: a newly designed website.

Our longevity would not have happened were it not for our readers and advertisers.

There is a special relationship at work here: we support the community and the community supports us. Thank you for another lively and rewarding year.

f I’ve learned anything in my time on the District Council, it’s that a decision on a project isn’t final until the shovels are in the ground. That’s why I’m still fighting to keep the Hyde-Addison swing space in or around Georgetown.

Like many parents and teachers, I found out last week that D.C. Public Schools has decided that the only options to house the Hyde-Addison Elementary program during the planned two-year renovation project are the University of the District of Columbia and Meyer Elementary School, both more than three miles away from Hyde-Addison.

It would be undesirable enough for the older elementary school students to have to travel that distance, but bussing pre-K students — 3- and 4-year-olds — more than three miles to either Van Ness or Columbia Heights just can’t be on the table.

This process of reviewing and deciding on a temporary swing space has become an ordeal in and of itself. Two weeks ago, I was told by the mayor’s office that the plan was to move the Hyde-Addison program to Hardy Middle School beginning next summer. While this move would require some logistical issues to be figured out, it would keep the HydeAddison program close to the community and avoid disruptive crosstown bussing of young students.

Then, last week, it was determined that

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hat started out as a curious, amusing distraction has become a dangerous situation.

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, he had to pay people to show up to watch him declare for the highest office in the land.

Now there is talk that this neither smart nor substantive nor serious person could actually get elected.

What happened? How could someone who has all the qualities of a buffoon get so far and climb so high? It is terribly sad, but Trump appealed to the lowest common denominator — to the worst in all of us.

He stroked and manipulated. No tactic was

beneath him.

The attribute that he prized the most, that he was a fabulously successful businessman, we can now see was a fraud. I ask you: What kind of person deliberately mocks a disabled person and seeks laughs and points for it?

The Trump candidacy is a national embarrassment. The people who support him don’t seem to understand that we would no longer be the envy of the world. Rather, we would be seen as a country gone nuts.

The Republican Party hierarchy stands by and does nothing. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — supposed leaders — give tacit approval by their quiet acceptance.

There is still time for the undecided American voter to wake up and see that, with all her flaws, Hillary Clinton is far superior

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Dear friends and colleagues, After 13 wonderful, challenging and rewarding years as executive director of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, I have decided to step down to pursue retirement activities. It has been a pleasure and delight to work with terrific board members, excellent and dedicated community leaders, and many talented and delightful volunteers.

Thank you for being a wonderful part of my years at CAG. You all have been important friends and colleagues who have helped me and CAG thrive.

The job announcement for my replacement is being posted this week. See the CAG website — CAGtown.org. Please send any good candidates our way. I look forward to continuing to see you round and about Georgetown!

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to the scary alternative. She is smart, well informed, experienced and capable of being president. She has the temperament and the discipline to lead.

The other candidate does not possess any of the essential personal qualities of a leader.

There is no other way to say it: Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to every one of us. The decision to vote for Hillary Clinton is the only wise choice.

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Hardy did not have enough space and that the only options were to relocate to a facility on the UDC campus in Van Ness, beginning in two years, or to Meyer Elementary next year.

From the numerous parents I’ve spoken with this week, along with the hundreds of emails and dozens of calls I’ve received, it’s clear that no one supports a swing space miles away — and with good reason. I’m continuing to push back on the mayor’s team and the deputy mayor for education on the sudden switch from Hardy to not-Hardy.

There’s no such thing as an easy relocation of an entire school program. No one expects this project to be without its inconveniences. That being said, between Hardy Middle School, the to-be-completed-nextsummer Duke Ellington School and the Jelleff Recreation Center, there is enough space to keep the Hyde-Addison students and teachers within the community while the school construction work takes place.

I will be at the upcoming Citizens Association of Georgetown meeting to discuss the Hyde-Addison project. I’ve encouraged both Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles to attend as well, so that we can discuss the proposals with the community and determine a path forward. The meeting was originally scheduled for Oct. 18, but it is in the process of being rescheduled to accommodate Deputy Mayor Niles. Check the CAG website — cagtown.org — for the most up-to-date information. I encourage everyone to attend.

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2E03 CANDIDATE GREG MILLER

Sustainability coordinator for Georgetown University, lives on N Street. gmiller31@gmail.com Most Pressing Issue: The last six years have seen a sea-change in our community’s civic priority list. We’ve successfully created a positive framework for town-gown relations and continued to promote smart, business-friendly growth in our historic context. I believe the greatest challenge we now face is how to shape the character of our community in the coming century. How do we respond to a city rapidly changing around us while preserving our historic identity? We must lead the evolution of our city by example through demonstrating excellence in our own planning and development.

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he Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E is chaired by Ron Lewis, who is retiring, as are Tom Birch and Jeffrey Jones. At present, the commission consists of Lewis, Birch, Jones, Vice-Chair Bill Starrels, Ed Soloman, Mara Goldman, Monica Roache and Reed Howard.

Only two single-member districts are contested, although all are on the ballot. In 2E03, Greg

2E03 CANDIDATE RICHARD MURPHY

A retired lawyer who serves as counsel to ANC 2E on a pro bono basis, lives on P Street. rgmurphy48@gmail.com Most Pressing Issue: I have learned from my experience as counsel to the ANC that there are a myriad of discrete issues that could come before the commission during the next few years, but it is impossible to predict which ones will take center stage. Instead of attempting to identify specific issues, I believe we should focus on finding ways to bring the disparate elements of our community together to address issues that affect us all as they arise. The collegial process that led to the development of the new Georgetown University Campus Plan provides a wonderful example of how difficult obstacles can be overcome if we are committed to working cooperatively to find solutions that meet the needs of our entire community.

Miller and Richard Murphy will vie for Jones’s seat. In 2E05, which is mostly Georgetown, south of M Street to the Potomac River and Roosevelt Island, another candidate — Lisa Palmer — will run against Starrels. Election Day is Nov. 8.

In the Sept. 28 issue, The Georgetowner asked the commissioners — on the ballot and retiring — and the new candidates to answer

some questions about themselves, their vision for the neighborhood and the city and what they consider the neighborhood’s most pressing issue. Here is Part 2 of that conversation, with excerpts of comments from contenders in the two single-member districts only.

2E05 CANDIDATE LISA PALMER

A nonprofit fundraiser, who sits on three nonprofit boards, mother of twins, lives on South Street. georgetownpalmer@gmail.com Most Pressing Issue: I believe that our most important and pressing issue is the intersection between traffic congestion and safety. Particularly in my SMD, first responders have significant difficulty reaching homes on the end of Water Street and on or around the Paper Mill streets. Cars and pedestrians are consistently in each other’s way on K Street/Water Street. Wisconsin and M continues to be a dangerous intersection where pedestrians have difficulty safely crossing the street, which leads to vehicular backups up and down the north-south corridors. I believe that we need to spend significant time working with our friends at the GBID who have been working to develop plans which tackle these issues and to work alongside DDOT to implement changes to a traffic pattern which is currently both unsafe and untenable.

2E05 COMMISSIONER BILL STARRELS

(in office since 2000) A mortgage loan officer, lives on 31st Street. bill.starrels@gmail.com Most Pressing Issue: There are many issues that a good ANC commissioner needs to focus on. Working with the Metropolitan Police Department helping to keep Georgetown safe. Helping Hyde-Addison, Hardy Middle School and Duke Ellington School. Working closely with Georgetown University and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. The new 20-year agreement on a Campus Plan announced this month is an affirmation of how we work together. Working with business interests to bring in fine restaurants and stores. Honoring historic preservation, while allowing for modern needs.

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Oct. 14 Launch for Georgetown Row’s ‘Passport to Fall’

BY PEG GY S A NDS eorgetown comes alive in the fall with not only cooler weather and the approaching holidays, but also with an enlarged and lively population of college students — along with local families attending weekend events. This weekend, a joint promotion, “Passport to Fall,” created by Georgetown Row, a recently formed business group, aims to attract more shoppers to “uptown” Georgetown.

During store hours Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14-16, anyone can pick up a “passport” at any of the 22 participating small independent shops, salons and service providers along Georgetown’s Wisconsin Avenue from approximately M Street to R Street NW. The passport has a good map of the participating stores, clustered on both sides of the avenue, which will also be marked by colored balloons.

“The stores will stamp your passport brochure no matter how long you stay,” explained Suzy Menard, one of the organizers. With her husband Bill, Menard owns Via Umbria, a new Georgetown bakery, wine store, delicatessen, café and ceramics shop. “Once you collect seven stamps you turn the passport in to that store. You can then get another passport — as many as you want.”

Many of the participating businesses are offering demonstrations of their products, complimentary small samples or discounts. For instance, David Rios Salon and Spa will offer a complimentary color consultation and a bang trim. Illusions Salon of Georgetown, Via Umbria

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and Ella-Rue are offering complimentary seasonal beverages, such as apple cider, pumpkin treats and mimosas. Other participants are offering discounts upon presentation of the passport, including Hugo Boss (20 percent off), LiLi the First (15 percent off), Reddz Trading (20 percent off) and Anthony’s Tuxedos (10 percent off 2017 inaugural wear).

On Monday, the stores will have a drawing of all the turned-in passports. Store gift cards worth up to $50 — 22 in all — will be awarded.

The idea of “Passport to Fall” came about during meetings of Georgetown Row. The group,

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which will work closely with the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the Georgetown Business Association, comprises antique and decorative shops, spas, clothing stores, restaurants and cafés.

“We came to realize that many Washingtonians and visitors didn’t know about the newly energized, highly diverse retail experiences along Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown,” said Menard. “We are such a great mix of small independent businesses, a blend of new and wellknown stores. We’re not too precious. A shopper can spend a couple of hours on Georgetown Row

Discover Hidden Georgetown: Fall Shopping Event October 14-16, 2016 Welcome to Georgetown Row, home to many unique shops, restaurants, and businesses. We encourage you to explore our neighborhood with this passport. At each of the listed locations, you will get a stamp in your passport for discovering us.

Collect 7 stamps and you’ll earn an entry to win a gift card from Georgetown Row!

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and find there is really something for everyone’s taste and budget. We offer the personal customer service, unique products and neighborhood congeniality you won’t find in a mall or a bigbox store.”

Free “Connector” shuttle bus service will take shoppers from M Street to stops along Wisconsin Avenue, up to Book Hill, R Street and the Georgetown Public Library. Most of the participating stores are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., but some, like Via Umbria and some of the salons, open at 7 a.m. Others stay open through lateevening dinner and drinks.

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In: Blue Bottle Coffee on Prospect Street As reported by The Georgetowner June 22, the first Blue Bottle Coffee in D.C. will indeed be arriving at the former Down Dog Yoga building at 1046 Potomac St. NW, next to the C&O Canal. The company was on the Old Georgetown Board’s Oct. 6 meeting agenda for signage and storefront alterations.

The Oakland-based caffeine addicts who run the place consider themselves coffee purists, naming their company after the first coffeehouse established in Western Europe after the defeat of the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna.

Blue Bottle told D.C. Eater the shop will open in late spring.

In: Georgetown Holiday Inn to Become Residences, Retail Another big condo project is planned for next year. The shuttered Georgetown Holiday Inn property at 2101 Wisconsin Ave. NW — one block north of the Safeway — will be reconstructed as “a by-right mixed-use development with 225 residences and 20,000

square feet of retail,” according to Urban Turf, which added that JBG Companies acquired the leasehold interest in the property from 2101 Wisconsin Associates LLP in June. “No retail leases have been signed for the site, but there have been rumors that a grocery store could anchor the project. The unit mix will range from studios all the way up to four-bedroom apartments.” In November, developers will present plans to the Glover Park-Cathedral Heights Advisory Neighborhood Commission (3B).

In/Out: Water St. Condos at Malmaison, Gypsy Sally’s Representatives for the new condos planned by IBG Partners and Wilco Residential for 3401 Water St. NW presented at the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission’s Oct. 4 meeting. They proposed putting a five-story addition atop the twostory historic warehouse that now houses Malmaison Restaurant and live-music venue Gypsy Sally’s. The condo complex would rise between Whitehurst Freeway, Key Bridge and the towpath of the C&O Canal.

Underground parking would be accessible

from Water (or K) Street on the west side of the reconstructed building — displacing the restaurant and the music venue — and its addition, which will include 35 parking spaces and 50 living units. One public commenter, Bob Pincus, a Water Street resident and vice president of EagleBank, voiced approval of the project but called traffic on K Street “a freefor-all.” Not ready to approve the proposed design, the ANC cited the building’s massing, its position near the C&O Canal and lighting.

The project is expected to begin in October or November 2017.

Out: 128-Year-Old Saks Jandel Saks Jandel, purveyor of apparel to the capital’s high-fashion — some would say highfalutin — set since 1888, will close by the end of this year, the Washington Post reported. The Chevy Chase store will begain a liquidation sale, Thursday, Oct. 13.

President Peter Marx, a member of the fourth generation of his family to oversee Saks Jandel, told the Post he had decided to concentrate on real estate. Marx Realty LLC owns about five acres of industrial land in Northeast D.C.’s Langdon neighborhood, the Washington Business Journal reported

in July. Ernest Marx, Peter Marx’s Germanborn father, who ran the store from 1959 until his death in 2009, established direct links with European designers such as Yves Saint Laurent when ready-to-wear was in its infancy.

The fifth generation — Peter Marx has three children — is not taking the reins.

Out: Old Print Gallery to Close at Year End At the end of 2016, the Old Print Gallery will vacate its gallery at 1220 31st St. NW. The Old Print Gallery’s New York location remains and will take in the Georgetown inventory.

Here is the business’s farewell: “Founded in 1971, The Old Print Gallery has been lucky to call Georgetown home for 45 years. The gallery has established itself as a source of inspiration and information for print collectors, cartographic enthusiasts and the general public … We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the countless collectors, customers, artists and others who have supported the Old Print Gallery over the last four decades, and who continue to support us now.”

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Done Deal for D.C. School at Walter Reed The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development finalized an agreement with the U.S. Army to turn 66.27 acres of the Army’s Walter Reed campus in Bethesda over to the city. There are plans to have a facility for the D.C. International School constructed and ready for the 2017-18 school year. The District Council signed off on the $22.5 million purchase. As part of the agreement, the District is required to offer space on the property — which will be leased to a developer — to nonprofits or other groups offering public benefits. The transfer of the property is expected to take place around the end of this month.

Tea Time Again at the Hay-Adams in December

Just in time for the holiday season, the Hay-Adams hotel is offering exclusive teas on December 4, 11 and 18. Guests have the option of savory sandwiches like English cucumber with tomato and mint or a farmhouse egg salad. Among the sweeter options are warm cranberry scones or chocolate opera cake.

Organic tea choices include traditional English breakfast and chamomile citron. The HayAdams tea experience is priced at $50 per person, $35 for children under 12 — or $65 with an additional glass of champagne (adults only).

Carnegie Library Overcome By Mold EventsDC, the District’s convention and sports authority, tested the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square and, finding mold in two areas, closed the building for additional testing. The Oct. 7 gala of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., was moved to

the Newseum. In addition, Historical Society and EventsDC employees were relocated.

According to a recent rumor, the Carnegie Library was chosen by Apple as the location for the company’s D.C. flagship store.

Chinatown and Anacostia to Get Brainy Trash Bins It’s the wave of the future — trash bins with sensors that monitor neighborhood filllevels — and they’re expanding to Chinatown and Anacostia, Technical.ly reported. The announcement was made at the Smart Cities Week event at the Convention Center. Finnish company Enevo will provide the sensors and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District will work with a New York-based company called Maalka to design the software.

Tom Harari moved to New York City years ago and couldn’t figure out how anyone got laundry done in those tiny apartments. Having started in Manhattan and expanded to Brooklyn, it is now launching in D.C., Technical.ly reported.

Cleanly transports dirty clothes and dry cleaning to a wholesale cleaner then brings it back, clean and folded, the following day.

Mayor Opens Clinton Campaign Office in Dupont D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped open a campaign office for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton last week. The office is located at 1526 New D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Hampshire Ave. NW, conveniently near most Dupont restaurants. The center will be a hub for campaigners during the remaining weeks leading up to the election.

New from Case Foundation: #FacesofFounders The Case Foundation launched #FacesofFounders, a crowdsourced photo project, at South by South Lawn: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art, Action on Oct. 3. The project seeks to bring attention to the diversity of America’s entrepreneurs, also demonstrating the Dupontbased foundation’s commitment to inclusive entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs can share their photos and tell their stories at facesoffounders.org.

Cleveland Park Restaurant Plugs Wireless Indique, near the Cleveland Park Metro station, has launched a new program, “Chai + WiFi,” a community-based co-working space.

The restaurant, which specializes in modern Indian cuisine, collaborated with social-media entity A Creative DC on the project. “Chai + WiFi” is available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The concept was invented

by Rahul Vinod, son of Indique co-owner and chef K.N. Vinod. (We would have called it “ChaiFi.”)

Flooding Knocks Out Deli, Hummus Shop It make take more than the eight days that DGS house-cures its pastrami for the Dupont deli to reopen after last week’s flood damage. The website for the “next generation delicatessen” says “Stay Tuned for Reopening Schedule.” A sister restaurant, pop-up hummus shop Little Sesame, is also closed, but the Fairfax, Virginia, DGS stands ready to supply the duck fat matzo balls you crave.

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RINGING TRUE

FROM THE VOLTA BUREAU AND HELEN KELLER TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND INVENTIONS, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL’S LEGACY LIVES HERE

BY GARY TISCHLER

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n our family, we don’t take sound for granted,” explained South Carolina mom Christy Maes in a telephone interview. The quote is also in a brief video about her son Neil, now 12, diagnosed as deaf while still an infant.

The people at the Georgetown-based Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing don’t take sound for granted either. Founded and continuously inspired by its famous-inventor namesake, the organization has been working hard to make sure that sound — words and language, but also the sounds emanating in the course of daily life — can be heard by those diagnosed with deafness and hearing difficulties.

Working especially hard is Emilio AlonsoMendoza, chief executive officer since 2014 of what is known, shorthand-style, as AG Bell. The seasoned leader of nonprofits will tell you that he was attracted to AG Bell by the enthusiasm and talent of the staff.

But it was the organization’s mission — Advancing Listening and Spoken Language for Individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing — which confronts and changes a silent world, that moved him most. Its long official name comes with a long history, tied to innovators who used their gifts to help others have an equal share of the world we all live in.

The story of AG Bell can be found partly in the story of the remarkable Alexander Graham Bell and his remarkable times, partly in the National Historic Landmark that is AG Bell’s headquarters and partly in the men and women who plan and execute its goals, chief among them Alonso-Mendoza. Equally important are the stories of the thousands of families who have dealt with the hearing difficulties and deafness of their children, such as Christy Maes and her

son Neil, along with his younger sister Erin.

Bell was a giant of innovation in an age and a time when such men — including Thomas Alva Edison, Bell’s eccentric but far-reaching rival as an inventor — transformed the Victorian world into the modern. This was the age of the railroad and of the early development of the automobile and the airplane, signaling the transformation of transportation. There was a simultaneous revolution in communication, in which Bell played a major part — and not only for his invention of the telephone.

It turns out that Bell had a deeper view of himself and his life’s purpose. Alonso-Mendoza visited Bell’s summer home Beinn Bhreagh (“beautiful mountain” in Scottish Gaelic) in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where Bell and his wife Mabel lived part of the time and where they are buried.

“It is an amazing place. I saw the grave and the tombstone,” Alonso-Mendoza said. “It read, ‘Inventor, teacher of the deaf.’ ” Before he became the long-bearded master of invention we know, Bell was a teacher of the deaf; his mother, Eliza, was hearing-impaired, as was his wife Mabel. His teaching was grounded in lipreading and other 19th-century methods, the fundamental idea being that speaking was the key to hearing.

Bell’s larger-scale efforts began with the establishment in 1887 of the Volta Bureau, a center for research and education on deafness, which six years later moved into the neoclassical building that remains its headquarters, 3417 Volta Place at the corner of 35th Street NW. (The name Volta came from the Volta Prize, awarded to Bell by the French government for his invention of the telephone. The original Volta Prize was given by Napoleon to Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electrical battery, whose name

The May 1893 groundbreaking ceremony for the Volta Bureau at 35th and Volta was performed by the 13-year-old Helen Keller — shown left, holding the shovel — and the deaf-blind protégé of Alexander Graham Bell. Also in attendance were Bell and members of his family. Courtesy AG Bell Association.

is the source of the terms “volt,” “voltage,” etc.)

AG Bell works with families, health care providers and educators, and its subsidiary, the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, offers training in auditory-verbal education, a kind of advanced certification. But the organization’s principal motivation and goal is public education.

“Part of our responsibility is to make sure that the public is aware that people who are deaf and hard of hearing can listen and talk, and to help them recognize that the children and adults we support can thrive and participate in the mainstream,” says Alonso-Mendoza.

Helen Keller was one of Bell’s protégés, and you can see her, age 13, in vintage photographs of the

Mabel Hubbard Bell and Alexander Graham Bell in Nova Scotia. Bell was the second president of the National Geographic Society. Courtesy AG Bell Association.

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Paul Monarch of the AG Bell Association and AG Bell CEO Emilio Alonso-Mendoza in front of the Volta Bureau building on 35th Street. Georgetowner photo.

Volta Bureau building’s 1893 groundbreaking, along with Alexander Graham and Mabel Bell and other Bell family members. There are aspects of the 19thcentury building that speak to its own time and to the special nature of Georgetown. From the rooftop, you can see a good part of historic Georgetown in something of a time-travel vista.

Alonso-Mendoza, who traces his lineage to Cuba, Spain and Venezuela, speaks in an accented, formal voice that carries well, with an emphatic style that is also full of empathy. He knows how to put public and economic focus on worthy causes, having headed the Catholic Community Foundation, the Children’s Home Society of Florida and the National Parkinson Foundation. “I was trained as a lawyer, but somehow that wasn’t enough for me,” he said. “I think I have practical, pragmatic gifts, but I wanted to do more. I want to help humanity.”

Still, there was something special about AG Bell that attracted him, which moved him.

“I tried to imagine, in the end, what this was all about. I tried to imagine what it could be like to live in a world of silence, where you would not be able to hear a symphony, where you would not hear crying, or recognize it, the normal sounds of the world, or someone singing.”

Christy Maes learned all about that when her

Alexander Graham Bell in his study in the 1870s. Courtesy AG Bell Association.

son Neil was diagnosed, first with hearing problems, then with deafness. Technology has long provided assistance to the deaf and hearing-impaired, through hearing aids, of course, but most dramatically through the use of cochlear implants, which Neil received early on. The inventor of these electronic speech-processing devices, William F. House, is represented by a bust prominently displayed in one of the first rooms at the Volta Bureau.

“It was a process, there were other things going on initially,” said Christy. “He had the newborn hearing scan and that’s what we were faced with. But we sought out everything, and he had the implants within a day or so of his first birthday. You just do everything you have to do, and believe me it’s not easy.”

Neil, who turned 12 on July 13, came to Washington in May as one of 285 contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee (he was knocked out by ‘polychromatic’). Guests of AG Bell, the family worked with the organization to share the story of “their challenges and triumphs in their journey with

deafness.” While Erin, 6, is hearing-impaired, Neil’s other sister, Jenna, 7, is not.

“We were shocked when we first got the diagnosis, but took it as a challenge,” said Christy. “I wanted him to thrive. And he is such a smart, good kid, anyway.

He’s shy and quiet, but he dives into things. Some of it is painstaking — the give and forth, ‘Can you hear this word, or recognize this?’ — but you do it, and he was a natural. He likes German words a lot, just because they’re fun to pronounce.

“You know what happened with all of us, the whole family, we felt blessed in some ways,” she said.

“That’s what not taking sound for granted means.

Going through this made all of us appreciate hearing and sounds — a dog barking, the sound of rain falling or wind blowing, accents and voices. It’s funny. He turns his implant off when he hears thunder.”

She said, “I wanted him to succeed. He’s very creative. He plays the piano and the clarinet, like his grandfather, who loved Pete Fountain.

“I am so proud of him,” she said.

BELL’S FAMILY OF INNOVATION, RIGHT HERE IN D.C.

BY ROBERT DEVANEY

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing celebrated its 125th anniversary with a Legacy of Innovation Gala Sept. 29 at the National Geographic Society’s headquarters, where Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, Bell’s great-grandson and the society’s former editor, president and board chair, was feted with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Alexandra Grosvenor Eller, Gil Grosvenor and Sara Grosvenor. Photo by James R. Brantley.

Also honored — as champions of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2015 — were Representatives Lois Capps (D-California) and Brett Guthrie (R-Kentucky). Today, early detection can catch 96 percent of cases.

There was a feeling all around that this was a gathering of family and friends as well as an international affair — a quality of Washington, D.C. The gala included an excerpt from the play “Bell” by newsman Jim Lehrer, starring local theater standout Rick Foucheux, who, as Bell, told the audience: “Everyone, turn on your phones!”

Master of ceremonies Lance Allred, the first legally deaf player in the NBA, said he was lucky to be alive, coming from a polygamist group in Montana, adding that AG Bell found him. Presenter Elena LaQuatra, who hears with a cochlear implant, is Miss Pennsylvania USA 2016.

Calling her brother Gil “the grandfather of Dora the Explorer,” gala co-chair Sara Grosvenor wondered aloud where he had not been. For his part, Gil quipped that Sara ruined his summer with her work on the gala. He added, “Alexander Graham Bell was the Steve Jobs of his day.” Edwin Grosvenor made sure everyone knew that Gil’s nickname is “Gippy”

The Volta Bureau, headquarters of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Bell’s father — Alexander Melville Bell — owned the house across the street. Courtesy AG Bell Association.

— and that geography literacy for all is Gil’s passion.

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, Gil’s friend for 54 years, revealed that his fellow explorer is a carpenter and a fine craftsman.

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YOUR DINING GUIDE TO WASHINGTON DC’S FINEST RESTAURANTS

THE OCEANAIRE 1201 F ST., NW 202–347–2277 theoceanaire.com

Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.

TOWN HALL

2340 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-5640 townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub. Free parking is available nightly after 7 p.m., and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

Lunch Mon.–Fri. 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Dinner Mon.–Thu. 5–10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5–11 p.m., Sun. 5–9 p.m.

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DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy twostory setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown.

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A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students and journalists to international visitors and performers, all enjoy the casual but refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

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1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-7370 martinstavern.com Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and world travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest family owned restaurant.

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Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Rosewood Washington, D.C., specializes in hand-cut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement.

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DAS ETHIOPIAN 1201 28TH ST., NW 202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com

THE GRILL ROOM

2810 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW 202–295–2826 enowinerooms.com

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SEA CATCH RESTAURANT

1054 31ST ST., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. Beautiful waterside outdoor dining available.

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FILOMENA RISTORANTE 1063 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–338–8800 filomena.com

Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Free salad bar with any lunch entrée Mon-Sat and try our spectacular Sunday Brunch Buffet complete with carving stations, pasta stations!

Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.!

Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.

CLYDE’S OF GEORGETOWN 3236 M ST., NW 202–333–9180 clydes.com

This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

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Family-owned restaurant serving authentic Brazilian food in Washington, D.C., for more than 23 years. Our Executive Chef, Alcy de Souza, cooks with the heart and soul. Live music on Thursday nights is a romantic blend of bossa nova, jazz, samba, choro and forró.

Monday – Thursday 4:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Friday 4:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Saturday noon to 11:30 p.m. (brunch until 4 p.m.)

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Parking validation available for breakfast, lunch and brunch.

Malmaison opened in June 2013 and features elegant French dining in Washington D.C’s historic Georgetown waterfront. Housed in a majestically refurbished industrial warehouse reminiscent of NYC’s Meatpacking District, the modern restaurant, pastry shop and event lounge features the culinary talents of legendary 2 Michelin Starred French Chef Gerard Pangaud and Pastry Chef Serge Torres (Le Cirque NYC).

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Cocktail of the Month: Thyme to Decide

BY JODY KURASH

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e’re finally in the home stretch of what feels like the longest and nastiest U.S. presidential campaign in history. As Nov. 8 creeps up, the entire world seems on edge. So whether you’re just anxious for it to be over or riveted with suspense like a horror-movie heroine, the best way to calm your nerves is with a strong drink.

This being Washington, it’s no surprise that there is an abundance of election-themed cocktails to satisfy your thirst and perhaps influence your vote, including signature cocktails for both candidates.

First up, just steps from the future home of the next commander-in-chief, is the renowned Oval Room. The Oval Room will be pouring two election-themed cocktails. The Madam President is a combination of Cynar, lemon juice, Giffard Abricot, Angostura rum and sparkling wine, topped with an orange twist. The Build That Wall is made with Muscat grape purée, spiced honey syrup and champagne vinegar, topped with soda and garnished with three grapes.

Off The Record, the iconic downstairs watering hole at the Hay-Adams, will offer four election-themed cocktails for leisurely sipping. Guests can opt for Hillary’s Last Word, forged from Bombay Sapphire gin, lime juice, green Chartreuse, Luxardo Maraschino and grenadine, garnished with a Maraschino cherry

and lime zest. For the spirited Republicans, there is the Trumpy Sour: Knob Creek bourbon, whiskeybarrel-aged bitters, lemon and honey, garnished with a sprig of thyme and a dehydrated lemon slice.

The vice-presidential candidates have not been left out.

The Kainenhattan is a combination of Plantation rum, Antica Formula red vermouth and Angostura bitters, garnished with a Maraschino cherry and an orange wheel.

Pence’s Tea Party is made from Laphroaig 10year-old and Oban 14-year-old scotch, Amaretto Disaronno, Bénédictine, orange juice, ginger syrup and vanilla extract, garnished with crispy bacon and an orange peel.

Down the road from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue is 701 Restaurant. Guests can select the I’m with Her, made from a combination of George Dickel rye, Flor de Caña

four-year-old rum, Rocky Mountain peach liqueur and apple cider vinegar, garnished with a peach wedge; or the Make America Great Again, a combination of Moon Drop grape purée, spiced sorghum syrup and sherry vinegar, topped with soda and garnished with three grapes on the rim.

At Ottoman Taverna, located on I Street NW, diners can opt for a cocktail reflecting the personal style of each candidate. You can “vote” Democratic with the Pantsuit, a combination of vodka, lime juice and house-made fresh peppermint shrub, topped with sparkling wine, or go Republican with the Side Sweep, made with gin, freshly muddled basil, strawberry, raspberry, lime-honey water and blue raki.

In the interest of impartiality, at the Grill Room and the Rye Bar are three cocktails without a party affiliation. Thyme to Decide,

Thyme to Decide 1.5 oz. .5 oz. .5 oz. .25 oz.

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gin honey syrup lemon juice St. Germain blackberries sprig of thyme

Muddle blackberries with honey and lemon juice, then add gin and shake vigorously.

Double-strain into a coupe glass and garnish with thyme sprig. garnished with a thyme sprig, incorporates gin, honey syrup, lemon juice and blackberries. “I understand that each candidate has their strengths and weaknesses ... but it’s Thyme to Decide,” says Kevin King, food and beverage operations manager at the Rosewood, Washington, DC. Also at the Rye Bar, guests can sip on the Pacific Blue — vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, Luxardo Maraschino and blue Curaçao, garnished with blueberries and a lemon twist — or the Green Card, made with mescal, honey, lime and ginger syrup, garnished with a lime wheel and basil leaves.

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hef/GM/Mixologist Update: Trummer’s On Main in Clifton, Virginia, named Jon Cropf as the restaurant’s new executive chef. He hails from The Drawing Room in Charleston, South Carolina … Laurent Aubel has been promoted to executive chef at Bar Dupont at the Dupont Circle Hotel … Jorge Chicas is chef de cuisine at BLT Steak DC. He was executive chef at The Bazaar by José Andrés in Los Angeles and, before that, at ThinkFoodGroup’s Zaytinya in Penn Quarter.

The Ivy City ’hood keeps getting tastier.

The fourth-quarter opening of Pidzza combines the best of Turkish pide and American pizza, hence the name. It will open in the new Douglas Development project at the Hecht’s building at 401 Okie St. NE. Quick Hits: San Francisco-based fastcasual restaurant chain Eatsa is signed to open this fall at 1627 K St. NW. Customizable quinoa bowls will make for an automated, faster fast-casual dining experience … Ohiobased Cameron Mitchell Restaurants will open Ocean Prime, featuring steak and seafood, this month at 1341 G St. NW, in the downtown space where Ceiba used to be … Yoshi Ota plans to open Sushi Gakyu, a 67-seat restaurant at 1420 New York Ave. NW by the end of the year. He also owns Yuzu Japanese Dining in Bethesda … A full-service Wingo’s with an accompanying sports bar will open in the first-quarter of 2017 at 2339 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan where Angles Bar and Little Fountain Café were. The original Wingo’s is in Georgetown (you knew that).

What’s new at the Wharf: K.N. Vinod and Surfy Rahman of Indique and Bombay Bistro plan to open an Indian restaurant in the

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new development. Pearl Street Warehouse, a tavern with live musical entertainment, will open, care of the owners of Cantina Marina. The main drag, Pearl Street, will also have Kaliwa, an Asian restaurant from Cathal Armstrong. Eric and Ian Hilton will do what they do best, opening The Brighton, a high-energy waterfront pub. But wait, there’s more. Nick Stefanelli of Masseria plans to open an Italian restaurant and market. Fabio and Maria Trabocchi plan to open a Spanish seafood (advantage: Maria) restaurant called Del Mar. Jen Carroll and Mike Isabella plan to open two oyster bars, plus a second location of their French Mediterranean restaurant, Requin, which is open in Merrifield, Virginia.

Recently opened: Rick and Valerie Dugan opened The Grilled Oyster Company in the Cathedral Commons project above Glover Park.

Rick was general manager of Brio Tuscan Grill in North Bethesda and also the late, great O’Donnell’s in Bethesda … Luigi Diotaiuti of Al Tiramisu opened Aperto at 2013 I St. NW where Primi Piatti used to be.

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A Fauquier Getaway — and a Reunion for Adopted Dogs

BY P EG GY S A N D S

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he changing season beckons Georgetowners to visit Virginia’s rolling hills, farmlands and historic villages, exulting in the fresh air and expansive scenes within an hour’s drive of Washington. Even better is to be able to take the day to celebrate a spe-

Two of the canine guests at the Chance Foundation's fundraiser for rescue dogs last Sunday enjoy a pool party at the Country Club Kennels.

The entrance gates topped by statues of sitting canine mark the entrance to the Country Club Kennels in Catlett, Virginia.

cial occasion at an extraordinary destination.

Best of all is to be able to share that day in the country with family and friends old and new, benefiting a good cause.

All this came together on Sunday, Oct. 9, at a farm, kennels, stables and country estate near the village of Catlett in Fauquier County, some 54 miles from Georgetown. It was the week of St. Francis’s feast, which is celebrated with ceremonies to bless the animals in churches, pastures, forests, stables and fields around the world.

It was also the second annual golf event and open house at Carla Nammack’s Country Club Kennels and Training on Bristersburg Road, a fundraiser for the Chance Foundation, which helps homeless, abused, neglected and abandoned dogs of all breeds. (Note: The foundation was featured in an August 2013 Georgetowner cover story.)

While challenging for the golfers at the nearby links course at Bristow Manor Golf Club, the windy day didn’t disrupt the happy reunion for the many adopted dogs, who came with their owners to see and play with their old friends at the beautiful kennel where they had found new life.

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Restored 3 bedroom 1830’s farmhouse on 65 acres • Multiple porches & fireplaces, lots of charm • Lovely pool, shared pond, 4 stall barn, workshop • Expansive mountain views, rolling open pasture & fully fenced elevated land • Gorgeous setting in the protected valley between Middleburg and The Plains • Conservation easement permits 2 more homes to complete the compound.

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Custom-built stone & stucco home • 4+ bedrooms include 1st floor master • Gourmet kitchen • Home office with T-1 line & VIP security system & home automation • 4 stone patios • Perennial gardens & large mature trees • 3-car garage • Gated entrance, pristine grounds, pond, barn • 24 acres.

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Charming stucco bungalow on a quiet lane • Hardwood floors • Flagstone patio • Updated kitchen and baths • Home office and first floor master with sitting room • Large fenced back yard • Very well cared for turn-key home and a great value.

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Prime Middleburg location • House completely redone in 2004 • Hill top setting with panoramic mountain views • 3 BR • 3.5 BA • Main level master suite • Pine floors • Beautiful millwork • 3 FP • Attached 2-car garage • Beautiful windows • Gracious room sizes • 4-stall barn • Riding ring • In-ground pool • Lovely gardens • 31.05 acres recorded in 3 parcels.

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Hill top setting in historic village of Waterford • circa 1745 brick and stone home on 17.20 acres • 6 BR, 5 BA & 7 FP • Beautiful woodwork throughout • High ceilings • Meticulous renovation • Improvements include barn w/ apartment • Garage space for 6 vehicles • In-ground pool •Large pool house •Stone outbuildings • Lovely gardens.

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Circa 1807 • 33 acres ideally located between Middleburg & The Plains • Rare quarried stone exterior, 10-foot ceilings • Period mantels, original wood floors, two-story front porch • 3 BR/3 BA, each a private suite • Historic stone barn includes one BR/BA apt, heated tack room, 6 stalls • Carriage barn • 3 paddocks, large turnout field, run-in sheds, auto waterers • Whole farm generator • Pond • Orange County Hunt.

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And play they did. A swim party took place in the early afternoon at the large tiled swimming pool. The water was a bit too cool for the humans, but several dogs, mainly Labs, were not at all deterred, eagerly plunging into the water to capture balls and sticks. Other dogs romped together around their picnicking owners, lying out in the many fenced paddocks of the kennels, or walked the nearby country trails and bridle paths with them. Some shared the barbecue and sat contently next to their owners and friends, taking in the live country music.

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farms, some with multiple outbuildings, others with small barns and family plots. Often large old family homes along the route have antiques arranged intriguingly on their widepillared porches, seemingly for both conversation and sale.

There are numerous villages with histories dating to the early 1600s in Fauquier County.

Civil War sites are marked with historical plaques that tell the story of what happened exactly at that place. Driving, one passes small country stores selling garden and hardware supplies, groceries and an occasional post office. Gas stations offer gasoline at least 20 to 40 cents a gallon cheaper than in the District A country church sits at the edge of a winding road near — another reason for a fall getaway to the VirCatlett, T &Virginia.

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The Plains~Set on a knoll with views of the Blue Ridge Mtns, this 83 acre farm is well designed and was extensively remodeled in 2011 offering every amenity. The main house has 4 BD, 7 BA, 4 fireplaces, gourmet kitchen, and gracious entertaining spaces inside and out. There is a 3BD, 2 BA tenant house, charming guest house, swimming pool, outdoor kitchen, 4 ponds and extensive landscaping. There is a 4 stall barn, 2 stall shed row barn, equip. shed, 3 run in sheds. The land is protected by a VOF conservation easement. $5,275,000

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Berryville~The 179 acre Estate of Norwood, c1819, is written as "one of Clarke County's most elegant, intact examples of the Federal Style Architecture."

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Middleburg ~Handsome Building ~ 25 Year Established Business~Turn-Key & Inventory in the center of Historic Middleburg. Stunning upscale home items, crystal, unique gifts, cards, custom stationery, gourmet chocolates and much more. Approx. ½ of inventory is offsite and included in sale. Owner willing to help buyer get established. $1,400,000

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OCTOBER CALENDAR OCTOBER 15 Pints & Poses at Lost Rhino Brewing Participants will get lost in an hour-long vinyasa flow, then rehydrate with craft beer at Lost Rhino, Loudoun County’s award-winning brewery. Tickets include the yoga class and one beer. No yoga experience necessary, bring your own mat. Tickets are $15. To purchase tickets, visit eventbrite.com. 21730 Red Rum Drive, Ashburn, Virginia.

OCTOBER 16 Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Walk, Run & Pooch Prance

This event, the 10th annual, is presented by Loudoun County’s Cherry Blossom Breast Cancer Foundation, which benefits local women and health facilities. Participants are invited to dress themselves and their canine pets in pink to raise money for the local fight against breast cancer. Individual registration is $35. For details, visit cherryblossombreastcancerfoundation.org. Foxcroft School, 22407 Foxhound Lane, Middleburg, Virginia.

OCTOBER 20 TO 23 Middleburg Film Festival

The festival — four days of a curated selection of narrative and documentary films screened in intimate theater environments, followed

by Q & A with world-renowned filmmakers, actors and other special guests — opens with Garth Davis’s directorial debut, the feature film “Lion,” starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. Friday Spotlight selections include “Moonlight,” directed by Barry Jenkins, and “Manchester by the Sea,” directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Tickets are $15 per film. Passes start at $100. For details, visit middleburgfilm.org.

Music Together in Upperville

Music Together nurtures each child’s natural musicality. The winter session of music and movement, designed for children from birth through age 5 and their caregivers, consists of 10 45-minute weekly classes. The cost is $140 plus materials. For details, visit piedmontmusic.org. Trinity Episcopal Church, 9108 John S Mosby Highway, Upperville, Virginia.

‘The Chronicle of the Horse in Art’

On view through March 26, the painting and sculpture exhibition, “The Chronicle of the Horse in Art,” presents the rich variety and depth of the classic, iconic and contemporary American, British and Continental art that has been featured on the front covers of the Chronicle of the Horse for almost 70 years.

Admission is $10. National Sporting Library & Museum, 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg, Virginia.

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Murphy’s Love: Advice on Intimacy and Relationships

Propositioned By Friends’ Husbands — Why?

BY STACY N OTA R A S M U R P H Y

Dear Stacy, I am a reasonably attractive, mid-30s, married mother of two young kids. My marriage is strong. We have our issues but we have the tools to manage them and I think we both are relieved to be in a solid partnership as we raise our kids. I’m writing because in the last year or so I have been propositioned by three different male friends. These are families with which we spend our time. We have taken vacations together and I am close with their wives. I am not being overly dramatic when I say propositioned — this is more than just flirting. I have no interest in participating and I am at peace with keeping these events to myself (in other words, save your advice about me telling the wives, I’m not doing it).

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on their friends’ wives? Just looking for some clarification.

— Not interested Dear Not Interested: Assuming you are forthright about not doing anything specific to encourage these come-ons, I think this is a great question.

Esther Perel, author and famous couples therapist, has an intriguing take on this subject (you might like her TED Talk). Perel has worked with self-identified “happy couples,” in which at least one partner has had an affair. She describes such partners as being long-term monogamists who just one day cross a line.

They maintain that they are monogamist in their beliefs, but their actions tell another story.

That story is not that one person morphed into an untrustworthy jerk overnight, but rather that they are wondering what it would be like to be another version of themselves.

Perel would look at your Propositioners as people who made certain decisions to create a

certain type of life. They are reasonably happy in that life, but wonder what it would be like to have made a different choice. I find her perspective to be pretty interesting, particularly when she points to research that, despite the prevalence and acceptance of divorce, infidelity rates (which are very difficult to quantify, to be sure) have increased. In other words, the marriages are happy enough to maintain, but something else drives the affairs.

Her conclusion is that infidelity is a way for people to feel alive again, not to bond to another person. Not to burst any self-esteem boost that these Propositioners may have given you, but their efforts likely are more about them than they are about you.

Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown. Visit her on the web at stacymurphyLPC.com. This column is meant for entertainment only and should not be considered a substitute for professional counseling. Send your confidential question to stacymurphyLPC@ gmail.com.

Q&A With Actor Rick Foucheux on His Operatic Venture

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n Oct. 20, Washington’s Russian Chamber Art Society will open its 11th season of presenting concerts of Russian art songs and arias with a gala dinner performance, “Pushkin and Tchaikovsky: An Immortal Meeting of Russian Romantics,” at the Embassy of France.

The performance will comprise highlights of “Eugene Onegin,” the opera that Tchaikovsky based on Pushkin’s novel in verse, sung in Russian by four vocalists. These excerpts will be interspersed with readings by Woolly Mammoth company member Rick Foucheux.

The Georgetowner recently spoke with Foucheux about his Washington-based career and this unusual venture.

How did you get involved in the D.C. theater world?

RF: I came here to do television. I was a talk show host. I came here to do “Good Morning Washington” at Channel 7 in 1982. And after a year of doing that, I left that industry altogether and went into the theater because it was my first love.

When I left my work in broadcasting, I was still able to make a living as a freelancer because the government sponsors a lot of training films, industrial films, so I did a lot of on-camera work in that regard. But at the same time I was beginning to audition for the likes of these small theaters called Woolly Mammoth, Source, the Folger. I grew up as a theater artist at the same time the Washington theater community was growing up.

Theater can take place anywhere. You can do theater in a small room. You don’t need bells and whistles to have an audience respond to a theatrical event. And this is what set these wonderful artistic directors apart: Howard Shalwitz,

Actor Rick Foucheux as Alexander Graham Bell at the AG Bell Gala Sept. 29, reprising his character from the one-man play, “Bell.” Photo by James B. Brantley.

Joy Zinoman. Michael Kahn, of course, has always had the bells and whistles because he’s established this larger theater. But in the early days, we [at Woolly Mammoth] were in a church basement at 9th and G. And it was an excellent lesson for a young theater artist to learn that you can create a castle onstage just by your thinking there’s a castle onstage.

So having that experience working with the “shoestring” version of Woolly Mammoth was very useful in developing the craft?

RF: Absolutely. Just to understand the power of the actor. It’s so much more than just learning the lines and doing what the director tells you to do. It’s the work that Vera [Danchenko-Stern,

RCAS founder and artistic director] and I have been doing today about establishing the ball, establishing the country, establishing the city, establishing the grove where the duel takes place.

What was your reaction to this invitation from RCAS? RF: Vera got me at a time when I had begun to pull back from my activities. I have young grandchildren now. I’ve spent the past 30 years giving myself primarily to the theater and here, in the last third of my life, I decided I wanted to give back to my family who has sacrificed so much.

What is new to you? Is “Onegin” new to you?

ARTS Q&A continued Is Russian music new to you?

RF: I knew of the story of “Eugene Onegin,” but I had never read it. And I’ve always been a fan of music of Tchaikovsky, but I’m a casual listener, I’m not an educated listener or an intellect. And so my experience with Tchaikovsky’s take on “Onegin” will be new for me, getting to work so closely onstage with a maestra so acclaimed as Vera will be new for me and getting to know her. Often a rehearsal process on these things includes, you come in once or twice and you just sit there, you speak it, they do it and that’s all. Thank you very much and you’re out of the room. Vera’s hospitality has been an important part of this process and I daresay it’s what will make our performance special, that when we’re onstage we’ll have a relationship. I hope to form some similar relationship with the singers as well.

In the script, you’re playing all four characters and the narrator. What kind of a challenge is that?

RF: That will be something of a challenge.

I have to figure out where to put Pushkin’s voice, where to put Onegin’s voice and where to put Lensky’s voice. And then also I have to figure out a place to put Tatyana’s voice.

As you read through the script now, do you identify more with one of the characters or with any of the incidents in the story? Do they have resonance in your own life?

RF: Well, in my own life, I’m not so sure.

But I’m touched by the tragedy of this. I’m touched by the meaning that is taken wrongly and therefore leads to such tragedy. We look at the story and we say, how far back can we go? To say, if only he wouldn’t have done that, if only he wouldn’t have done that, if only she wouldn’t have done that. You know, to think of someone dying and then two lives, in addition to the death, being wasted just because they were missing the point, as it were.

A Joyful Reunion With the National Gallery’s East Building B Y A R I POST

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hree years ago, the National Gallery of Art began a major renovation and expansion of its East Building, one of the greatest bastions of contemporary art in the country.

Washingtonians heaved an ambivalent sigh.

Though we were intrigued by the prospect of reinvigorating our city’s most iconic museum space — I. M. Pei’s architectural Xanadu of marble, glass and natural light — the temporary closure of the building left a noticeable dent in the energy of the National Mall. It also seemed to signal a bleak lull in the city’s museological vitality.

This is not to belittle the monumental efforts of the Smithsonian museums, the Phillips Collection or our other spectacular arts institutions, but something big was obviously missing.

Culturally, Washington performs on a global stage, and a sprawling modern art venue is one of the requisite expectations of a major international city. The East Building’s absence loomed like a heavy shadow.

But now it is back, and it was worth the wait.

The Washington Post said it best. It is “like greeting an old friend. She still has the same familiar qualities, and conversation picks up as if no time has passed at all. But you also can’t help but notice: she looks good.”

It’s true. There is something remarkable about the scope and style of this renovation, which seems to have doubled the space devoted to the gallery’s permanent collection (at an additional 12,250 square feet, this is almost true) and carved out new and better spaces for temporary exhibitions. Yet it maintains the same

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CO MP IL ED B Y RICH A R D S E LD E N n open reading of the words of Zelda Fichandler, founding artistic director of Arena Stage, will take place at the Mead Center for American Theater on Sunday, Oct. 23, with a public memorial service the following afternoon. Fichandler died July 29, aged 91. To RSVP for the free events, email zelda@arenastage.org.

On Oct. 26, the Kreeger Museum will host “Creative Power,” an evening panel discussion with Renée Fleming, Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Clarice Smith and Arthur Bloom, moderated by Robin Strongin, founder of Disruptive Women in Health Care. The organization’s mission is “to serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere.” For details, visit disruptivewomen.net.

The Kennedy Center will celebrate the 90th birthday of tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath at an Oct. 30 concert. Pianist Herbie Hancock, a spry 76, and the Jimmy Heath Big Band will perform.

Brother of drummer Tootie and bassist Percy,

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the Philadelphia-born Jimmy played with other legends named Charlie (Parker), Dizzy (Gillespie) and John (Coltrane).

Kicking off an exhibition of the traditional resist-dyed fabrics known as bingata, the Textile Museum will hold a fullday symposium on Nov. 5 called “Only in Okinawa: Textiles and Traditions of the Ryukyu Kingdom.” The speakers will include representatives of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum and the National Theatre Okinawa. For details, visit museum. gwu.edu.

Hosted by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., the 2016 Conference on D.C. History will take place Nov. 3-6. This year’s conference, the 43rd annual, will focus on the 225th anniversary of Washington, D.C., the culture of everyday life, immigrant communities and diaspora of and/or in the District, local politics and social movements and neighborhood history. For details, visit dchistory.org.

A view of the East Building’s new Rothko gallery in Tower 1. Photo by Rob Shelley. Courtesy National Gallery of Art.

vocabulary of spacious intimacy we have long adored in the museum.

So excited was I to reacquaint myself with my old friend that, in my great haste to make the rendezvous, I forgot to pocket a pen for my notes. This was a very solvable problem, but for one unexpected obstacle: as soon as I set foot in the door, I was whisked off by sheer joy into the French galleries on the left.

Just a peek, I told myself, for I had not seen those gorgeous little Vuillard studies in three years. Take a quick look, then go get a loaner pen from the information desk and diligently reacquaint myself with this fresh and familiar terrain.

But wait, that Bonnard is exquisite. I am sure I haven’t seen that one before. It must be just out of collections storage. And look at this stunning Raoul Dufy, sailboats scattered like confetti about the rippling blue sea — I never knew they had that one.

Now, to get a pen. Wait. Is that a staircase? In the French galleries? This was not here before. I wonder where it leads. German Expressionism: Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Golly, an entire room of Fauvist masterpieces. Look at that Matisse, and that André Derain … wait, that’s Braque — I didn't know he could do that.

I looked at my phone. I had been there for an hour.

Perhaps the writer’s time constraints are not advisable matters to discuss in an art column, but here’s the thing: there is no way to write a walk-through of these new galleries in under 1,000 words — other than as a Power Point-like outline. The NGA website has a comprehensive breakdown of all the new galleries and exhibitions, and Maura Judkis’s coverage in the Post does a great job as well.

Furthermore, this is not a situation where there is a single “must-see” treasure (although Katharina Fritsch’s 15-foot, cyanide blue rooster on the new roof terrace and the adjacent Alexander Calder survey in the Tower 2 gallery come close).

If there is one thing I would like to

communicate in this column, it is an exclamation. This article is for locals and for art lovers, for those among us who want to spend time in museums, wrap ourselves in beauty, return and revisit, see things again and for the first time.

The rest of my visit followed this pattern.

I barreled through the galleries like a hound chasing a curiously familiar scent, looking for something in an abstract way, stopping frequently to interrogate a particularly powerful bouquet, then moving on, enraptured by the sheer joy of the chase.

I left clutching my empty notebook, my heart pounding and my mind electrified.

The new galleries are simply outstanding.

There is a monumental Max Ernst landscape that will unhinge your jaw. The new gallery of Minimalist art completely redefines and illuminates the genre (oh, Agnes Martin). The selection of works by West Coast artists from the ’60s and ’70s like Ed Ruscha, John McCracken and Edward Kienholz establishes an overlooked golden age of American art in its rightful place beside the legendary midcentury New York School.

The photography galleries will have you enraptured, from the Southern Gothic intrigue of Sally Mann to the towering works of Thomas Struth and the Düsseldorf School.

Downstairs, on the concourse, the exhibition “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971” is on view through Jan. 29, spotlighting the remarkable career of American gallerist and patron Virginia Dwan. Related film screenings and talks continue this month and next.

And there is more. Much more.

The National Gallery is back. There is no way to truly see it all in one visit, but the good news is that we don’t have to. It is free. It is down the street. And it is open. I, for one, look forward to returning soon.

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Friends of Rose Park Celebrate at Evermay

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Mount Zion Officially Marks Its Bicentennial

BY R OBERT D EVAN EY With loud praises to Jesus, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church marked its two centuries in Georgetown at a gala at the 22nd Street Marriott Sept. 30. Pastor Johnsie Cogman welcomed steadfast believers of the church, founded in October 1816 by 125 free and enslaved black Methodists as “The Little Ark.” Council member Anita Bonds proclaimed Mt. Zion day, and Achord, a men’s a capella group, led all with its inspirational music that includes R&B and Doo-Wop. Said Cogman: “Mt. Zion, I am so proud and honored to serve as your pastor. You have stood the test of time for 200 years. Continue standing, sowing and serving! God’s bountiful blessing for many more years.

Our journey continues.” Can I get an Amen?

Friends of Rose Park held its annual gala at beautiful Evermay Oct. 6, thanks to Sachiko Kuno, CEO of S&R Foundation and estate owner. David Dunning, president of Friends of Rose Park, welcomed his neighbor and friend, Jeh Johnson, as well as Council member Jack Evans and many other benefactors. Katherine Nix was gala chair.

Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, with Leslie Smith and her husband Joe Goulden.

Sharon Lockwood, Belinda Winslow, Mt. Zion’s Rev. Dr. Johnsie Cogman and Liz Medaglia.

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David Dunning of Rose Park and Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans.

Connie Zimmer, Sachiko Kuno and Joan Kennan.

Master of ceremonies Willie Jolley, Crystal Myles and keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Kevass Harding of Wichita, Kansas.

The George Town Club Hits the Big Five-O

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Howl-o-ween Pet Adoption Event Pumpkin Biscuits for All K-9 Visitors who arrive in Costume. Prizes for the “Best Pet Costume” and “Cutest Companion” GEORGETOWN WASHINGTON HARBOUR 3000 K Street NW Suite 101 Plaza Level

The George Town Club thought it would just have a nice, quiet 50th anniversary party Oct. 1. Well — for the private club founded in 1966 and patterned after clubs in London and today finding a new generation of members — it was definitely anything but quiet as friends, old and new, enjoyed all of the club's rooms and a feast of a dinner.

Club manager Gerardo Massa and his daughter and Marc Schappell.

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Saturday October 22nd 12 noon – 3 pm

Tom Anderson and Evelyn Brandt.

Meredith and Rich McPhillips.

Pam Johnson, Wes King and Sharon Casey, president of the George Town Club.

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Kate Earls, event chair Jeni Hansen and Elizabeth Sinclair.

Club treasurer Woody Driggs, Tracy Iseler and Debbie Winsor. Photo by Vithaya Photography.

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AG Bell Celebrates 125th Anniversary PHO TOGRA P HY BY JA M E S R . B R A N T LE Y The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing celebrated its 125th anniversary with a Legacy of Innovation Gala at the National Geographic Society. [See page 19 for details of Sept. 29 event.]

Gil Grosvenor, Sara Grosvenor and Dr. Alexandra Grosvenor Eller.

American Gladiators contestant Brick Reilly, master of ceremonies Lance Allred, AG Bell Foundation CEO Emilio Alonso-Mendoza and Miss Pennsylvania USA Elena LaQuatra hoist 11-year-old recent cochlear implant recipient Neil Maes.

Master of ceremonies Lance Allred, the first deaf player in NBA history.

OCTOBER 20 Blue Hope Bash

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The sixth annual Blue Hope Bash, presented by Colon Cancer Alliance and the Chris4Life Colon Cancer Foundation, will feature live entertainment, a silent auction and dinner with inspirational stories from colon cancer survivors. Fairmont Hotel. Email bluehopebash@ccalliance.org.

October 22 Citizens Association of Georgetown Gala The 2016 Georgetown Gala — Georgetown Rocks — will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel. This year’s event will celebrate Georgetown icons, with music by the Rockets.

Visit cagtown.org.

An outstanding lineup of entertainers will gather at the Kennedy Center to salute Bill Murray, recipient of the 19th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The gala performance will feature comedy greats and be taped for broadcast nationwide. Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Call 202-416-8335 or email mtp@kennedy-center.org.

The Smithsonian Food History Gala is dedicated to celebrating the people and places that make America’s food history extraordinary. Food professionals, practitioners and enthusiasts will gather for a special night to benefit Smithsonian food history programs.

The highlight of the evening will be the second annual presentation of the Julia Child Award to Rick Bayless by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. National Museum of American History. Visit amhistory. si.edu/donate/food-gala.

OCTOBER 29 30th Anniversary Lombardi Gala The black-tie dinner dance features a cocktail reception with a renowned silent auction and an awards presentation that recognizes remarkable individuals for their contribution to the fight against cancer. All proceeds go directly to Georgetown Lombardi to support cancer research, treatment and education.

Established in 1970, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the D.C. region.

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