CITIZENS GV OLUMEeorgetownXXIV / ISSUE 9/NOVEMBER 2010 WWW. CAGTOWN. ORG Honing in on Zoning: How Georgetown Could Be Affected

he November 22 CAG meet- CAG has invited two experts, Travis nars, Letelier Theater (3251 Prospect ing will focus on proposed Parker and Nancy MacWood, to pres- Street NW) is an intriguing venue for TDC zoning changes that may ent the pros and cons on the issues. the CAG meeting. You can enter from significantly affect our neighborhood. Parker is the DC Office of Planning’s Prospect Street and use the staircase As proposed, the regulations encour- “Zoning Rewrite point person” and to the upper level, or enter on N age increased development and densi- MacWood is both an ANC commis- street (beside Neyla’s) directly onto ty. This increase could lead to more sioner in Cleveland Park and the zon- the upper level. (For more informa- institutional and commercial uses as ing specialist from the prestigious tion check out leteliertheater.com) well as loss of green space on indi- Committee of 100 on the Federal City. vidual lots, substantially impacting CAG’s Legal Counsel, Richard Hinds, CAG Historic Preservation and our business and residential streets. will moderate the exchange. Zoning committee Chair, Pamla Moore, promises a lively discussion. CAG’s Historic Preservation and The program will take place at the So do come and hear this critical Zoning Committee has been following Letelier Theater, a “hidden gem in the exchange of ideas and views and the proposed “Zoning Rewrite” by upper courtyard of Georgetown pose your own questions or con- the DC Office of Planning and wants Court”—an intimate theater with cerns. The reception begins at to alert and inform residents about excellent acoustics and state of the art 7 o’clock with the program from the critical issues. The Rewrite will be media presentation facilities. Usually 7:30 until 8:30. issued as proposed regulations over offering programs such as French and the course of the next several months. Italian films and specialty food semi-

Georgetown Gets Down at the Gala at the Russian Embassy (see story and more photos on page 6)

Awardees Anna Fuhrman and Barbara Downs are Tonya and Lincoln Blunt Outerbridge and introduced by Jennifer Altemus of MRP Realty,Washing- Georgina Horsey ton Harbour with Nancy Taylor-Bubes 1 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS /NOVEMBER 2010

President’s letter

LOVE Halloween in Georgetown. People go all out. The houses look like they have been decorated by IAlfred Hitchcock or Martha Stewart. The kids’ cos- tumes have been in preparations for weeks and when they finally debut, they all look adorable. And the scene on M Street is super fun. Thanks to all those who make this holiday so wonderful, including the police who keep the streets safe.

There is nothing new to report on the Georgetown University Campus Plan. After three serious work ses- sions between GU and community representatives (ANC2E, CAG, and the Burleith Citizens Association) on core issues of concern regarding GU’s draft 10-year campus plan for 2010-2020, discussions have been sus- pended. At some point in the future, the parties may resume meeting. GU is required to file their plan by the end of the year and we look forward to presenting our views to the Zoning Commission. Our newsletter next month will focus exclusively on Campus Plan issues. It is important for the neighbors to know the issues and be involved in the process. We plan to join Burleith in put- into a function like this. It was certainly a group effort ting out lawn signs to help raise awareness. And we will and these ladies deserve a huge round of applause. The host another public forum once GU has filed its plan. Gala is CAG’s primary fundraiser and its profits allow us to further CAG’s mission. The 2010 Georgetown Gala was a tremendous success. The Russian Ambassador, His Excellency Sergey Kisylak, Our association’s Beautification Committee new hosted us for a glamorous evening complete with Russian chairs, Patrick Clawson and David Dunning, hosted the vodka, caviar, and the Right On Band. I felt like all of CAG/GU Fall Clean Up day to spruce up both the East Georgetown turned out to honor Barbara Downs and and West Villages. Together with Ray Danieli, students Anna Fuhrman. The silent auction rocked! So many local from the university, and dozens of neighbors, they raked, businesses donated fabulous items and the bidding was shoveled, and bagged truckloads of trash. Red “Save the extremely enthusiastic. The night was truly spectacular. I World” wagons were provided for kids to collect bottles thank everyone who attended and all of the sponsors and and cans. The weather was spectacular as everyone gath- donors who contributed. And I am particularly grateful ered for coffee and muffins and to collect their gear. The to Gala chairs Nancy Taylor Bubes and Lesley Lee and morning ended with lunch provided by the GU Grilling their planning committee who made everything happen. Society. It was a great way to spend a Saturday morn- Annie Lou Bayly Berman and Erika Donohue coordinat- ing– meeting neighbors, cleaning our streets, and eating ed the very labor intensive but extremely profitable auc- good grub! Thanks to everyone who turned out to make tion. I know they couldn’t have done it without all the our village a little bit prettier. help they received, particularly from Patti Cumming, Kathleen Long, Shaun Murphy, Beth Solomon and Jenny Slowly but surely, the work on the O & P Streets trol- Zador. Brooke Carnot persuaded the society “it” band, ley tracks is moving forward. Construction is expected Right On, to perform. Constance Chatfield Taylor, to start by the end of the year and will take about two Colleen Girourd and Amy Tercek took on the decorations years to complete. We will keep you posted on the making the embassy even that much more stunning. process through our website. Robin Jones put the gorgeous invitation together. Cookie See you at the “Zoning” meeting on November 22. Cruse checked everyone in—no small task! And our exec- utive director, Betsy Cooley, together with Elizabeth —Jennifer Altemus Maloy managed to finalize the millions of details that go

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Aspects of Georgetown

Georgetown is the Theme of the Washington Winter Show

t seems that we have a reputation ago. We have layers and layers of his- armchair. We might have sugar chests for style. We are pleased, of tory here. Some of the houses have and linen presses with neither sugar Icourse, and such an accolade played major roles in our past and nor linens in them. And architectural makes us feel good, but let’s examine they have the stories to go with them. garden ornaments! The Washington whether it’s deserved. Winter Show may well have these We are good on the details. Our things too and we can look at them, There used to be an event called frequently handsome front doors have sometimes covet them and enjoy our- the Washington Antiques Show; it sidelights (narrow windows on either selves enormously while doing it. was held at the Omni Shoreham and side of a door to let light in). We have it was a big deal. It endured for 55 fanlights or demilunes above the door It’s about design and décor—one years and it was fun, enjoyable. Now for the same reason and also because thinks “this will look good with this that event has morphed into the they are often so decorative. And they but not with that.” Play with it; it’s Washington Winter Show, held at the even have that chic French name. We all about pleasing the eye. Indulge it. Katzen Arts Center at American Uni- have some remaining gaslights here Those glorious glowing oriental rugs, versity in January. With many of the and there and mounting blocks, his- this beautiful and unusual objet for same exhibitors, easy parking and toric accessories from a bygone era. the center of the table, the fabulous great space it definitely continues to pair of Chinese vases for the mantel- be enjoyable and fun. This year the In Georgetown houses you might piece, these things have more than theme of the show is Georgetown. find nine-spindle Windsor chairs and passed the test of time. furniture with claw and ball feet and Continuity is something George- girandole mirrors, butler’s tables even In so far as we have self-confi- town has going for it too: our history, though we don’t have butlers. And dence about this, it comes from our our longevity. Isn’t that what antiques lolling chairs and gate leg tables and continuity, our links to taste and shows are all about, style that tavern tables even though we don’t live style from the past. So to answer the endures, style from the past? We have in taverns. Lolling chairs sound so question asked in the first sentence, the patina of age, like good antiques. wonderfully decadent and disreputable yes, we deserve it. Our streetscape was built a long time even though they are just a kind of —Edith Schafer Why Does It Take So Long To Replace a Bridge?

he project to replace the three The new bridges no longer rely on bridges over the C&O Canal is the stone walls to support the bridge Tnear its midway point. The 30th deck. Rather, to provide this support, Street bridge is completed, and the con- a set of subsurface pilings anchored to tractor is making good progress on the bedrock, with a concrete abutment Thomas Jefferson Street bridge, which cap, are being built. Once the abut- will likely be finished before next ments are formed, steel girders will be spring. The contractor will then move attached, and these girders will ‘float’ to the 29th Street bridge. This last the new bridge over the old stone bridge will take the most time because bridges, nearly a century old, were walls. For the Thomas Jefferson Street of the major utility lines that use the designed and built in an era when a bridge, the girders should arrive from structure to cross the canal. wagon’s weight of goods was the heav- the steel fabricator in mid-November. What is so complicated about iest vehicle to cross. The stone walls of The picture shows the two rows of replacing these small bridges that it the canal supported the bridge girders steel-capped micropiling that form the takes many months of construction and, over the decades, have had to north-side support for the bridge before they re-open? The answer is bear the increasingly heavy buses and abutment on Thomas Jefferson Street. that the contractor is, in effect, build- trucks of the modern era. ing a completely new bridge. The —Walter Groszyk 3 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS /NOVEMBER 2010

Meet the Men Behind the Flashing Lights: CAG Public Safety Guards

esfaye Terefe’s name (pro- nounced tess FIE uh tare EF Tuh) means “too much hope” in his native language, but to those of us on CAG’s Public Safety committee who want our neighborhood to be a safer place, there’s no such thing. Tes- faye is one of the private guards hired by CAG from the security firm Securi- tas to patrol our neighborhood’s resi- dential streets at night. He’s been on the job for two years and is now supervising the CAG team. His part- ner is Donovan Carmichael, an Arlington native, who joined the secu- rity detail last November.

The two men are serious, intelli- Guards Tesfaye Terefe and Donovan Carmichael with a CAG patrol car gent, soft-spoken, and eager to do what they can to protect the people. ning to learn that the guards are people and help them on a daily basis. They know every street and alleyway keeping them safe too. of our neighborhood, and know Donovan served in the U.S. Air where — and when — to station Tesfaye came to the United States Force for four years, working as an themselves when the bars close to from Ethiopia in 2004, after studying F15 maintenance crew chief in Eng- encourage the groups of students accounting and then getting his car- land and Qatar. In his first years out of (and others) to make their way penter’s license. He first worked for a the service he worked in a hardware through the residential streets quietly company that builds apartment and store and as a cable contractor, and in and without incident. They recognize condominium buildings in the district, both jobs he found that what he did the students don’t always welcome but soon realized he’d rather work in best for his customers was trou- their presence, but some are begin- a job where he could connect with bleshooting. Even now, working for

NEWSBYTES

Malia and Sasha Obama were spotted taking tennis lessons at the Georgetown University courts ... the Embassy of Cameroon now occupies the building at 1600 Wisconsin, diagonally across from the library... Georgetown Candy just opened at 1417 Wisconsin Avenue (the former home of Yiro) offering candy wax lips, red hots, dots, and other childhood classics AND they send gift packages ...Google has a new aerial map of Georgetown photographed this summer (www.wikimapia.org)... athletic-gear catering to the “urban jock” (think yoga and running not mountain climbing) can now be found in City Sports, a Boston- based company set to open a flagship store in Cady’s Alley between Bo Concept and Baker Furniture this December...the woods surrounding Duke Ellington field are being renovated — join in the tree planting event on November 6 at 8:45am... Muncheez Mania is now open at 1071 Wisconsin Avenue serving sand- wiches, wraps, salads, falafel, and crepes from 11:30 until late... the Spice and Tea Exchange is open selling a vast selection of teas, gourmet spices, cooking herbs and seasonings and hand-mixed blends and rubs at 1069 Wisconsin Avenue. . . when the new International House of Pong opens at 1010 Wisconsin Avenue it will feature ping pong tables along with food and drink!

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CAG, he sees his skills as a trou- Donovan and Tesfaye are on duty The guards are in regular contact bleshooter paying off; for example, five nights a week; Wednesday and with our neighborhood’s police offi- he’s worked hard to get neighbors Sunday from 6pm to 1am and Thurs- cers and with those assigned to the with noise disputes to communicate day through Saturday from 6pm to extra “reimbursable detail” that CAG better with each other and head off 3am. Contributors to the CAG Pub- pays MPD to provide on the week- problems before they occur. Donovan, lic Safety program have the guards’ ends. They check in with each other like Tesfaye, says the thing he likes individual cell phone numbers and by cell phone during each shift and best about his work for CAG is the are welcome to call when they are on keep each other informed about trou- feeling of being useful, though he duty to get an escort within the ble spots and possible crime threats. joked that “If we do our jobs TOO neighborhood, to have the guards well, nothing happens and then we keep a close eye on their house when —Diane Colasanto don’t feel we’re being useful!” they are away, or for any other pub- CAG Public Safety lic-safety-related issue. Committee & Block Captain

I asked Tesfaye and Donovan to tell me what they’d like Georgetowners to know about how to stay safe in the neigh- borhood. Here is their excellent advice: • Avoid talking on a cell phone when walking in • Call the guards or the police (911) if you see any suspicious activity Georgetown.Thieves are targeting cell phones right now, and in the neighborhood,even if you are not completely sure that the being distracted by a cell phone conversation means you activity indicates something illegal. won’t realize when you are being approached by someone who may be threatening. • Get to know your neighbors so you can work on problems together and watch out for each other’s property. • Never leave anything of value visible in your parked car. Even if your car is locked, a briefcase, iPod, or other device left in a To this list, I’d add two other items: car is just an invitation to have it stolen. • Get to know Tesfaye and Donovan too; they want to know • Avoid walking alone late at night. If you don’t have a friend (or what our concerns are so they can help. a dog!) to accompany you, call one of the guards to walk with you, or to drive you where you’re going. • Contribute to the CAG Public Safety program so we can contin- ue to strengthen our guard program, reimbursable detail, and block captain program.Visit http://cagtown.org/guard.html to make a tax-deductible contribution today.

Alessi Arives in Georgetown

ou know the whistling tea kettle Now those wares are available at around $20. (Check out the brand-new that Michael Graves created for the cheery new Alessi shop in Cady’s line of pet products, including a hefty Ythe Italian design company Alley, below M Street. The shop resin-and-stainless-steel dog bowl with Alessi? It’s the one with the little red bird opened October 21 under the aegis of a “bone” handle, for $85.) The 800- about to fly out of the spout. You can Deborah Kalkstein, owner of the near- square-foot shop doesn’t have all 3,000 boil water in it — or you can set it on a by Contemporaria store. Alessi CEO, items in the Alessi line, but it carries shelf and simply admire it. Or both. Alessio Alessi, as handsome as his the main selection. From Alessi’s point housewares, was in town to launch the of view, the Georgetown store means The same can be said for almost all shop, Washington’s first. “We had to the company can showcase its new the housewares and tabletop products find the right partner—that’s the most products immediately. From George- made by the design-driven Milanese important thing for us. The person towners’ point of view, it means we no firm — the famous spidery juicer from [who runs the local business]has to longer have to trek across town to the the 1980s by French wunderkind have a real passion for design.” He National Building Museum to satisfy Philippe Starck; the tall, cone-shaped and Paolo Cravedi, managing director our Alessi fix. The shop is at 3319A cheese grater by Richard Sapper (used for Alessi North America, found that Cady’s Alley; 202-298-0404. at Cafe Milano); the iconic Anna G partner in Kalkstein. corkscrew. We don’t always know If the new Alessi store inspires you, their names, but they’re all instant The shop owner “must also be able know that the Philadelphia Museum classics of the design world (and con- to sell art,” Alessi said. Good point: of Art will feature an exhibition of temporary households), ready to work Some of the tea and coffee sets the the firm’s iconic objects November 21 hard and look good doing it. company produces cost in the thou- through April 10, 2011. sands. But useful, and oftentimes whimsical, objects at the store start —Nancy McKeon 5 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS /NOVEMBER 2010 Georgetown Gets Down at the Gala at the Russian Embassy

Crowd during the presentation of awards Ed and Hope Solomon singing Rolling on Nancy Taylor Bubes and Mark Tercek, The River with the band CEO The Nature Conservancy

TomVogt and Bob Laycock with band singer

Betsy Cooley, Ray Kukulski, Natalia and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and Jennifer Altemus Wilke Green, Leslie Kamrad, John and Judith Beard, Cynthia and Phillip McKee

hat an evening! The 2010 so Alexander Ovechkin and Alexan- town and Moscow’s historic district, Georgetown Gala, chaired der Semin did not make a repeat the Arbat, which was initiated at Wby Jennifer Altemus, appearance but many notable last year’s gala, was also celebrated Nancy Taylor Bubes, and Lesley Lee, Georgetowners attended the VIP at the event. The Georgetown and provided guests with a glamorous reception. the Arbat neighborhoods are the evening dancing, chatting with historic cradles of their two national friends, and bidding on intriguing Jennifer Altemus welcomed capitals, they are home to many auction items at the Embassy of the Georgetowners and led the festivi- writers and artists, feature vibrant Russian Federation on Friday evening ties by recognizing Barbara Downs restaurants, galleries, and boutiques, October 15. For the second year in a and Anna Fuhrman for their great and both are popular tourist desti- row, His Excellency Sergey Kislyak contributions to the community. nations. A pen-pal system has been hosted almost four hundred George- Councilmember Jack Evans also established between local schools towners for dinner and dancing, welcomed the crowd. Numerous and the communities are developing along with Russian vodka and caviar. local officials were also on hand for more ways to establish partnerships Unfortunately, the Capitals had a the event. The special neighborhood for cultural, business, and youth hockey game the evening of the Gala relationship between George- interaction.

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Brook Rose, Gregg Busch of First Savings Mort- Jim Girouard, John and Collen Girouard, and gage and Julia Diaz-Asper of TTR Sotheby's Realty Jay Perstein

Tess and Ariel Segal

Elizabeth Maloy, Leslie Maysak, and Elizabeth Miller The Right On Band got the crowd on the dance floor Kristin and Greg Muhlner use their BidPal device during the silent auction

Real estate on the dance floor was A big thank you to our lead Photos can be found on several limited as many guests showed off sponsors—Georgetown Park—Angelo media sites including: their dance moves as the Right On Gordon/Vornado Realty Trust; Nancy band played that funky music of the Taylor Bubes—Washington Fine Prop- http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/ 1970s. With gold glitter platform erties; MRP Realty; EagleBank; East- thescene/ready-set-gala-russia- shoes and go-go dancers, guests Banc Technologies; Georgetown Uni- love#comment-1758, couldn’t help but join in the “Love versity Hospital; Gregg Busch—First http://www.revamp.com/story.php?St Train” conga line that snaked Savings Mortgage; John and Colleen oryID=685, through the elaborate rooms of the Girouard—Capital Asset Manage- http://snarkinfested.com/, Embassy. The fabulous silent auction ment; Mimsy and Rusty Lindner— was put together by Annie Lou Colonial Parking; M.C. Dean, Inc.; http://georgetown.patch.com/articles/ Berman and Erika Donohue along PNC Bank; Securitas Security Services groovin-georgetown-gala, with their hard working committee. USA; Clyde’s Restaurant Group; Julia Many local businesses donated Diaz-Asper at TTR Sotheby’s Interna- http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/ attractive items and the bidding was tional Realty; Georgetown Business party-events-pictures/archive/ highly competitive thanks to the new Association; The Georgetown 6623-qto-russia-with-loveq-gala electronic system of hand-held bid- Current; The Georgetown Dish; ding devices from BidPal. The Georgetowner; Washington Fine —Elizabeth Maloy Properties; Jean Smith at ReMax. 7 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS /NOVEMBER 2010

It’s that Time of Year Again

hey are lime green, have a comes from the windbreaks planted bumpy surface like the human by Midwestern farmers to hem in Tbrain, are sometimes mistaken their crops and animals. The thorny (from a distance) for a tennis ball—and trees form practically impenetrable the grapefruit-size globes are starting hedges when planted close together. their annual drop all over Georgetown. These curiosities are called many One of the stories surrounding names: Osage oranges, Bois d’Arc, or Osage oranges seems to be true: in hedge apples. You don’t want to eat March 1804, explorer Meriwether them (they apparently contain Lewis sent slips and clippings from the hydrochloric acid—not good!), but you thorny tree back to President Jefferson may very well want to use them as a as a curiosity (in his journals, Lewis seasonal display heaped in a bowl. called it an Osage apple tree). Jeffer- Nancy McKean with an Osage orange son, ever the enthusiastic planter, tried Osage-orange trees can be found in and failed to keep them going. But, repellent property of the Osage orange’s Montrose Park, in Volta Park and like wine grapes, which also failed for essential oil on mosquitoes. elsewhere, and they have naturalized Jefferson but later thrived in this Botanists point out that birds don’t around the United States, but they are region, the Osage-orange tree has feed on these large, seed-filled fruit, native to parts of Texas, Arkansas made a home here. surmising that the animals that fed on and Oklahoma, in the homeland of them have long been extinct. So you’re the Osage Indians, hence one of the Folk wisdom advises setting the large not depriving any creatures if you tree’s names. Another of its names, globes around the basement and in cup- decide that a few of these otherworld- Bois d’Arc, or bow-wood, derives boards to get rid of camel crickets and ly-looking giants might look better on from the use of the wood by some spiders, but such experiments are likely your mantelpiece than on the ground Native Americans in bow-making. to be disappointing, although some in Montrose Park. The wood also excels when used as research conducted by the Department of Agriculture confirms the slightly tool handles. The hedge-apple name —Nancy McKeon

The kind of excitement we don't like on our corner: An armed truck delivering money to the BB+T bank directly below the CAG office at Wisconsin and O Street was robbed by masked men in broad daylight.

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Additional Donors to the CAG Public Safety Program (from June 18, 2010 through October 27, 2010)

Thanks to the generosity of the following people, CAG has raised over two-thirds of the required revenue for the 2010 Public Safety Program We urge everyone else to contribute soon. All donations are tax deductible.

Sentinel Custodian Carlos Ortiz & Gerald Musarra Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown Anonymous Cutchin Powell Mrs. Rockwood Foster Leon & Robyn Andris Dora L. Richardson Jean Smith Terence & Therese Bertele Louise Sagalyn Ned & Toni Brody Gail Scott Protector Joe Farruggio / Janet Sumner il Canale Restaurant George & Frederica Valanos Georgetown Visitation W. Kent Cooper Mavis A. Walters Warren & Claire Cox Jill & Burton White Defender Cheryl & Dale Gray Anonymous Nat and Pat Gregory Other Nancy G. Brinker Lou Hayden William Alexander Nancy Taylor Bubes Mr. & Mrs John O. Hedden HA Gill & Son/John W. Mrs. Myrna Bustani Bernadine Bacon Irwin & Gill President Café Bonaparte Steve Irwin Julie Goodell William J. McNulty & Greg Love Rosemary Jenkins Janis M. Orlowski John D. Macomber Sara Mashek Perry Trimble Charles P. & Pamela Julian L. Mazor Aall McPherson

Georgetown Sparkles on Cleanup Day

Saturday October 23, the Citizens Association of Georgetown (CAG) and Georgetown University teamed up to clean up. It was the annual neighbor- hood event to spruce up parks, side- walks, and tree boxes. Students and neighbors alike swept, weeded and mulched and then returned to Volta Park for a barbecue with the George- town University Grilling Society.

From left, Beautification Committee Co-Chair Dave Thompson with Westsiders Dunning, Bill Skelsey, Betsy Cooley, Co-Chair Patrick Milton and Anne Thompson Clawson, Brenda Moorman, Carla Bicks,Tom Birch, —cleanup day stalwarts Sydney Lawrence and (in front) Freddie Skelsey

GUstudents go to work at cleanup day Ray Danieli and Jeff Jones hauled Clean up tools at the ready the trash 9 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS /NOVEMBER 2010

CAG Book Blast at New Library

(from left) Jerry McCoy, Chris Wright, Richard Levy and Nancy Davenport talked with Georgetowners

ver 140 Georgetowners of Library Services Nancy Davenport, the District-based firm Martinez & attended CAG’s October 25 who was instrumental in calling in the Johnson Architects in partnership Oreception at the newly reno- freezer trucks to immediately preserve with Hoshide Williams. Smoot Con- vated Georgetown public library. —and ultimately save—water-dam- struction managed the project. Tracy Closed three and a half years ago after aged books and historic papers. Sumler, branch manager, was also on a devastating fire, the library has hand to talk with neighbors. finally opened—with style! The restored building has a unique blend “This is a dream come true,” Jerry of modern and historic architecture McCoy, the archivist in the Peabody with lots of ambient light—perfect for Room, said of the library’s opening. reading during the daylight hours. McCoy maintains many detailed files Guests were free to tour through the on houses in Georgetown and asked many levels of the building, including residents to give him more informa- the stunning innovative third floor tion about their houses—photos, that houses the Peabody Collection news clippings and other documents and Reading Room. Many guests con- are welcome. gregated on the new outdoor reading CAG banner welcomed residents to Brad Gray announced that the terrace overlooking Book Hill Park to the renovated library Friends of the Library has officially catch the sunset. TD Bank provided become part of CAG and will be refreshments for the occasion. Chris Wright, the renovation proj- ect manager, described how they increasingly active now that the Brad Gray, CAG board member searched for and found the orginal library is back in service. Marcia and Co-President of the Friends of the weather vane in the ashes (one of the Carter, former owner of Booked Up Georgetown Library, welcomed neigh- few things they didn’t have the origi- and long time volunteer with The bors and introduced the board mem- nal drawing of) enabling an accurate Friends of the Georgetown Library, bers and staff from the DC Public reproduction for the cupola. And how presented two antique and rare Library. Library board member they were able to increase the library books to the Peabody Room. The Richard Levy, a Georgetown native square footage significantly within the American Gardner and Agricultural and businessman, spoke of how little original historic footprint of the 1932 Essays are both early Georgetown the library had changed since he was a building. Although he was onsite imprints and were acquired by the child, until the unfortunate fire forced almost everyday for three years, he Friends from Bartleby’s Books in the renovation and upgrade. The credited the successful design of the Georgetown. assembled crowd applauded Director $17.9 million library renovation to —Betsy Cooley 10 H.A. GILL & SON REALTORS Your cup Serving the Georgetown Area in the sale and rental of fine runneth over. properties since 1888 And over and over and over. 1722 Wisconsin Avenue NW JOIN THE 2010 (202) 338-5000 Bottomless Mug ClubTM Get FREE refills of coffee, tea and soft drinks throughout 2010.

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November Community Events and Calendar

Fri. Nov. 5 Step Up + Get Down; Hyde-Addison Elementary School auction and dance party fundraiser sponsored by the Parent Teacher Association; 7-10pm; Four Seasons, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue; $50 for entry, cash for cocktails; www.hydeaddison.org. Sat. Nov. 6 Neighborhood Tree Planting in Burleith; meet at 8:45am at the 38th and R Street gates; please email [email protected] to register; see p. 12 for details. Sat. Nov. 6 Georgetown Girl Scout Day; 10-12 at Dumbarton House, 1-3pm at Tudor Place; first annual Girl Scout Day, become history and nature detective during interactive tours of historic houses; full day $20 per scout and $6 per adult, half day $10 per scout and $3 per adult; to register call 965-0400 x110 or email [email protected]. Tues. Nov. 9 Festive Holiday Floral Designs; 7pm; workshop with designer Rance Goff on innovative centerpiece and home décor ideas; members $10, nonmembers $15; to register call 965-0400 x110 or email [email protected]. Tues. Nov. 16 Dumbarton House Friday Morning Music Club Chamber Music Concert; 12-1pm; Belle Vue Room, Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street; free; reservations suggested, email [email protected] or call 337-2288. Mon. Nov. 22 CAG Meeting: Honing in on Zoning; join CAG Historic Preservation Committee to learn about the critical issues of DC’s Zoning Rewrite and its influence on Georgetown; Letelier Theater, 3251 Prospect Street, Upper Courtyard; reception 7pm, program 7:30pm. Mon. Nov. 29 Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) Public Meeting: 6:30pm; Main Building of Georgetown Visitation School, 35th & Volta Streets; agenda available at www.anc2e.com. Sat. Dec. 11 St. John’s Episcopal Church Annual Greens Sale; 10-3; holiday greens, wreaths, gifts, decorations, and baked goods; 3240 O Street, Blake Hall; call 338-1796 or visit www.stjohnsgeorgetown.org.