People's District

A People's History of Washington D.C.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Ron on Giving Things an Extended Life

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"I was born in New Olreans, but my memory of that place is limited, as we moved to the Washington area when I was 4. I grew up in the ...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Carol on Showing the Beauty of D.C.

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"I am 60 years young. I have been living in Northeast for about 50-some years. I left once to go to Newark, New Jersey and stayed gone...
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Councilmember Kwame Brown on Changing with the District

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"My Dad came here in the 1960's. He was always involved in D.C. politics from being a part of the civil rights movement to helpi...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Cyndee on Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

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“I was born in Utah and then traveled around the country with my folks while my Dad was doing graduate school. I moved to the D.C. metro a...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Bijan on the Basketball Capital of the United States

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"I came to D.C. in the first grade. My family moved around Washington a couple of times, and we eventually settled in Brookland when...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Craig on Dragging Washington into the 21st Century

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"I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. There was nothing really extraordinary about my childhood. I played little league and ate Twinkies, Ho...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Shahid on the Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency

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"I was born in England and my family moved to rural Missouri when I was two. We lived there until I was ten and then moved to the sub...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Katie Balloons on Being a Balloon Artist

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" I grew up in Newport News, Virginia. Professional entertainment has been the bulk of my income since I started working. When I was 1...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Ray and William on a Parent and Four Kids Living on the Streets

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Ray - "I was born in Salisbury, Maryland in 1959. My wife died a little while back of an aneurism. A vein popped in her brain and she ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Dan on Seeing Washington from a Piano Bench

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“I was born in Buffalo, New York in 1935. Of course, I’ve been lying about my age and telling people that I am 38…Celsius. Those were some...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Nora on the Nation's First Certified Organic Restaurant

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"I was born in Vienna. In Austria , there is a lot of emphasis on fried foods, heavy sauces, and desserts. My parents were unusual in...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Trita on a Collective Voice for Iranian-Americans

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"I was born in Southern Iran. My father was a university professor and twice got in trouble with the Shah's government for making ...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Amy on DC SCORES

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"I was born in Austin, Texas, but grew up in Falls Church, Virginia. I started playing soccer at age seven. That was the earliest you...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Skip on a Different City

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"I came to Washington. D.C. as a student at Georgetown University in the fall of 1968. At that time, Washington was a very different ...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Ann and Mike on the Reagan Assassination Attempt

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Mike - "I was in the press pool the day of the assassination attempt on Reagan. We had four people at the Associated Press covering ...
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I am a D.C.-based photographer and collector of stories. People's District is my attempt to catalogue a people's history of Washington, D.C. The stories listed here are presented in the words of the interviewee. I welcome your ideas on who should be featured on People's District. Please reach out to me at danny@peoplesdistrict.com.
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