JULY 2020 VILLAGE NEWS FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE PRESIDENT Taking Action Against Racism By Phil Guire and Judy Berman We’ve probably all experienced leaps of consciousness at some time or another, when an experience or piece of information tilts the lens through which we’ve known the world and another image takes shape. It’s like the moment you first realize your parents are human and fallible—you view yourself and them differently forever. One of my (Judy’s) leaps occurred as a young adult when I recognized my own White privilege. I remember discovering that the day I was born was just two days after four little girls were killed by White supremacist terrorists who bombed a church in Above: Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd. Birmingham, Alabama. I found myself wondering, for the first time, how derive benefits due to the color of our to stop falling back on what’s easy it had been reported on the news, skin—like the benefit of the doubt— not to see, and to take action against whether my White parents—living just we have to acknowledge that many the injustices of historical, systemic, outside New York City—were thinking more people—Black, Indigenous, and and current racial inequality. It starts about it as they contemplated the People of Color—are unjustly denied with understanding, but it doesn’t imminent birth of their second child, those benefits only because of the color stop there. We have to continually whether they worried about or were of their skin.  affected by the hate that motivated the continued on page 3 Phil and I decided to share our violence, or the grief and fear that the CONTENTS violence left in its wake. It changed my columns in this newsletter because sense of the world I was born into, and this topic is so very important. With 2 Next Steps? Get Involved; Happy July 4th the country reeling over the deaths it changed me. 3 Taking Action Against Racism continued of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, 4 LGBTQ Corner: Member Bert Kubli’s Story I think the most remarkable thing George Floyd, and so many others, about privilege is the way it obscures a tide has turned. As many White 5 History and Biography Group Sets itself to those who possess it. The fact individuals confront their own biases Reading Agenda; Lit Club Announces 2020-2021 Selections; CHV LGBTQ that I could reach adulthood without and assess the impact that living in Symposium Coming in September! awareness of my proximity to this a racist society has had on them, we 6 Meet the Metzgers historic event speaks volumes about believe it is equally important that my White privilege. And even when businesses and organizations do 7 Village Voices; Show Us What You’ve Got! seen once, with crystal clarity, it can the same. CHV’s strategic plan has 8 Meeting Transportation Needs for Seniors recede into the habitual, the familiar, included expanding diversity as a and People with Disabilities the unquestioned. It’s not that privilege pillar of its strategy for several years, 9 Transportation Needs for Seniors and is hard to see, it’s that it’s easy not to, yet not enough has changed. People with Disabilities cont.; Gail Kohn unless we make a point of seeing it. Recognized; First Amendment Questions? And it’s uncomfortable to see, because This moment in history is crying out 10 CHV Events List if White people acknowledge that we for those of us with White privilege Next Steps? Get Involved Are you feeling inspired by the Black clothing, medical care, and legal and of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, the Lives Matter protests and want to social services to reduce the burden “Black Lives Matter Foundation contribute in a meaningful way? Here of poverty; seeks justice through is a global organization, whose are some actions that people of color community organizing and public mission is to eradicate white have recommended for White people advocacy; and works to uproot supremacy and build local power to who want to make a difference. (These racism, a major cause of poverty.” intervene in violence inflicted on examples are from Capitol Hill Village > Health Alliance Network: The Black communities by the state and not by any means an exclusive list.) Health Alliance Network convenes, and vigilantes.” 1. Choose to support Black-owned collaborates, and advocates for 3. Include Black voices in your daily businesses. White people need to put health equity and chronic disease activities. Here are some suggestions, their money where their mouths are reduction for poor and low-income who you may already be familiar with: communities in DC. and, if we truly oppose racism, invest in > The Kojo Nnamdi Show on the economic advancement of our Black National/International: National Public Radio neighbors. It’s not enough to feel badly > Color of Change: “Color Of > It’s Been a Minute, with Sam about racism, we have to change our Change exists to strengthen Black Sanders behavior. Here are some Black-owned America’s political voice. Their goal > Yamiche Alcindor, PBS News Hour food-businesses in our neighborhood is to empower members—Black > Michele Norris (also at https:// that offer take-out and/or delivery: Americans and allies—to make michele-norris.com/) > Cane – Trinidadian government more responsive to the > District Soul Food – Southern, Soul concerns of Black Americans and This list will be available on the CHV Food to bring about positive political and website. If you have suggestions to > Milk and Honey – Brunch, Café, social change for everyone.” contribute, please send them to info@

Coffee, Cake > Black Lives Matter: Founded in capitolhillvillage.org. > Hype Café – Ethiopian, Coffee, 2013 in response to the acquittal Pastries, Sandwiches > Sweet Lobby – Coffee and Cupcakes > Souk – Bakery, Coffee, Spice Market, Retail > MLK Deli – Sandwiches, Salads, Wraps, Wings and Crab Cakes > Smith Commons DC – Brunch, Dinner, Cocktails 2. Support organizations led by People of Color that are actively working to undo racial inequities. Here are some examples: Local organizations: > Serve Your City: A nonprofit that “provides life-changing experiences Happy Fourth of July, Capitol Hill Village! and opportunities for at-risk It’s not quite the same without our small-town parade, and our favorite local D.C. students through inspiring celebrities driving down Eighth Street in their convertibles (thinking of you, Bill and programming and the support of Roger!). We had to dig out a photo from 2019. It’s also not the same when so much of passionate volunteers” (and our attention is being drawn to the ways that the United States is struggling to live is helping coordinate Ward 6 up to the potential and the principles so beautifully articulated in the Declaration of Mutual Aid). Independence. But there’s nothing more American than hope, and we’re reminded > Bread for the City: “The mission again and again how much experience and knowledge and know-how resides with of Bread for the City is to help the members of CHV (did you read about the Metzgers?—and they’re just two!). If low-income DC residents develop there’s a group that knows how to make a difference, it’s this one. So, let’s make a their power to determine the Fourth of July resolution (New Year’s is just so pre-pandemic): let’s plan to march in future of their own communities. next year’s parade to honor what each of us has done to make our community more The organization provides food, fair and more just. That will be something to celebrate!

2 • July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE PRESIDENT CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE Taking Action Against Racism To reach us: continued from page 1 202-543-1778 (M–F, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.) remind ourselves and each other From the group Teaching [email protected] when White privilege is at work, when Tolerance: https:// https://www.capitolhillvillage.org injustice is at work, and commit to www.tolerance.org/ standing up against it—even if, or magazine/fall-2018/ Capitol Hill Village perhaps especially if—it makes us what-is-white-privilege-really 1355 E Street SE uncomfortable. Many of us moved to Washington, DC 20003 White Fragility: Why It’s So Capitol Hill precisely because of its Hard for White People to Connect with CHV at: diversity, because LBJ had issued a call Talk About Racism, by Robin for a “Great Society” and we wanted to DiAngelo (available from the be part of it. But that vision is still to DC Public Library: https:// be realized. dclibrary.overdrive.com/ To unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to [email protected] As leaders of the Village, we are media/3716950. (The book is making the following commitments: also available at online book To become a member, go to www. capitolhillvillage.org and click on “Join.” we (staff and board) are actively sellers and locally at East City Dues can be paid online, or call the office at working to make changes that will Bookshop.) 202-543-1778. enable us to attract and serve more Ibram X. Kendi: The difference To support the Village, go to www. Black members (at least in part to between being “not racist” capitolhillvillage.org and click on “Support/ help reduce health inequities between and antiracist (TED Talk: Donate.” Capitol Hill Village is a 501(c)3 Black and White seniors); we will seek https://www.ted.com/speakers/ charitable institution, and your gift is tax and choose more Black businesses ibram_kendi) deductible. All donations are welcome! to provide us with supplies and professional services; we will identify Baratunde Thurston: How more Black Capitol Hill residents and to deconstruct racism one business owners to serve on our Board, headline at a time (Ted Talk: in our committees, as volunteers, and https://www.ted.com/speakers/ to lead our affinity groups. baratunde_thurston) We invite you to be part of the discus- Putting Racism on the Table: sion and solution as we move forward. This series of videos was of the National Capital Area developed as part of a learning CHV #55474 In that spirit, we offer some resources that might inspire deeper inquiry, series for the Washington learning and action: Regional Association of Capitol Hill Village Leaders Grantmakers. (I highly Judy Berman, Executive Director Join a CHV learning group on recommend starting with Aleshia Faust, Membership Champion racism and White privilege, which Professor john a. powell Angel Freeman, Office Manager our Care Services team is currently on Structural Racism, Katie Garber, Director of Volunteer and organizing. If you’re interested, Care Services located in the original series Phil Guire, President of the Board contact Katie Garber (kgarber@ from 2016.) https://www. Tomeka Lee, Transportation capitolhillvillage.org or call CHV puttingracismonthetable.org/ Outreach Manager at 202-543-1778). Samantha Schiffman, Care Join the Board’s membership We look forward to working with you Services Manager Jacquelyn Smith, Volunteer and committee to help make the to create a more inclusive Village! Programs Coordinator Board and the organization Phil Guire is President and Meghan Wrinkle, Care Services and more inclusive. Judy Berman is Executive Director Transportation Specialist Learn about White privilege of Capitol Hill Village. Capitol Hill Village News Team and anti-racism. If these terms Editor: Karen Stuck are unfamiliar to you, here’s a Design: Roxanne Walker couple of places to start:

July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News • 3 LGBTQ CORNER Member Bert Kubli’s Story In 1960–61, I was a Russian linguist in me what I wanted to hear, that I was the Air Force, stationed in Turkey. I was not a homosexual and that “I should be accused of being homosexual (“gay” was careful of the company I kept!” not a term used back then). My former And thus began three and a half roommate at Syracuse University’s decades of agony, interlaced with Russian language school revealed to me marriage to a fine woman whose father halfway through the 11-month course was gay, our life as parents of two that he was gay. This news terrified me, sons, a relentless urge to come out, because I did not want to admit my own and endless hell for her—until the Gay gayness, and back then homosexuality March on Washington in 1993 and my was clearly a crime, legally and morally. near suicide! The Service authorities’ purview covered only my time in the Service—January It took me many years to understand 1958 to January 1962. Earlier, I was that suicidal moment in Metro Center. happy to be in the Service—a major part I had built my “straight“ life around of my family history going back to the the assumption that gay people could Revolutionary War. never be happy; e.g., the family’s cruel treatment of my father-in-law and Truth was, I knew from age five that I my classic gay teenage years. So, one was different. I was interrogated more evening, when I got into a Red Line than 30 times. I returned to the DC area, train to Bethesda where I lived, and the as did my two interrogators, playing car filled up with dozens and dozens of good cop/bad cop with my constant very happy young people, I was truly sense of terror. Then I was stationed at puzzled. It was a sledge hammer to my Fort Meade. My top secret clearance was head: these people were coming for the revoked, and I was put to work cleaning ‘93 March on Washington on April 25, the dayroom, particularly when my my 55th birthday, and, guess what, they Bert Kubli (right) and his husband Mark McElreath. buddies would be off work watching TV all got off at Dupont Circle—Duh! I there. Of course, everyone knew what the cat lovers’ bench at the gay corner found myself almost entirely alone in of Congressional Cemetery right in had happened to me. I was determined the subway car. to make that dayroom the cleanest place front of Frank Kameny’s Veterans on the base, just as a survival device! That was four days before the March. Administration headstone and Sgt. My carefully self-constructed five- Leonard Matlovich’s grave site. Mark They gave me an attorney as they decade-old cage began to come apart. and I have four children and nine prepared to put me on trial with the The next morning, I had to Metro back grandchildren. We are helping each intention of kicking me out with a to work, changing at Metro Center for other to live as happily as possible dishonorable discharge. I was a basket the Blue line to the Old Post Office during these dreadful political and case. Previously, during World War II, where I was an NEA staffer. The health-threatening days. I lived in a series of unregulated foster thought of my three-year-old grandson, Thank you for requesting my story. homes where I learned how to protect really, actually saved me from jumping myself. Those experiences made me Each time I share even part of my story, into an oncoming train. Or maybe it was the old pain is lessened! It never, never clam up tight as a drum, keep my mouth my male ego, not wanting to do damage shut, and try to be as good as possible was anyone’s business whom I chose to to the youngest generation carrying on love. I pray that younger generations to avoid the bad times. On and on and my family name! He is now 30! on—a classic case of survival for gay of gay women and men, and all other people. The trial (not the technical term) So, I had hit bottom and it has been all marvelous mixtures of folks, will never took a day and a half. My fiancée, later up since then. have to suffer through what I have my wife of 35 years, testified at the trial. You ask what my finest gay moment endured. But the agony continues. So The jurors, three Air Force officers, was—my marriage to my husband, many of us are still being taught from were extremely uncomfortable because Mark, at the Washington Ethical childhood that we are inherently evil. they didn’t even possess a vocabulary Society, two days after same-sex I am glad to be 82!! to discuss or listen to the accusations marriage became legal in DC. We have and testimony. So, at the end they told commissioned a memorial bench,

4 • July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News History and Biography Group Sets Reading Agenda The Capitol Hill Village History and such as the Cinephiles, Literary Club, October 7: The Problem of Democracy: Biography Group has selected the and Village Voices as many members The Presidents Adams Confront the books it will be reading this year. participate in those groups as well. Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg The Group was formed by Villagers Forthcoming readings are: and Andrew Burstein. who wished to read and discuss works July 1: The Warmth of Other Suns by November 4: American-Made: The of history and biography in depth. One Isabel Wilkerson, about the migration Enduring Legacy of the WPA When of the original founders, Joe Cooney, is of African Americans from Jim Crow FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick still active, and the group meets in his south to points north and west from Taylor. home when not Zooming in response 1915 to the 1970s. December 2: Last Boat Out of to COVID-19. August 5: Silver, Sword, and Stone: Shanghai by Helen Zia. Ten readings are selected annually Three Crucibles in the Latin American January 6: The Coldest Winter: from a list of member nominations Story by Marie Arana. America and the Korean War by David and the selections are discussed on Halberstam. the first Wednesday of each month. September 2: Daughters of the The meeting date was chosen to avoid Samurai: A Journey from East to West conflict with other affinity groups and Back by Janice P. Nimura. Lit Club Announces 2020-2021 Selections The Capitol Hill Village Literary September 15: The Nickel Boys by February 16: The Beekeeper of Aleppo Club reads one work a month and Colson Whitehead (2019, 208 pp). by Christy Lefteri (219, 307pp). Fiction. then meets—currently on Zoom—for Fiction. March 16: What Else Are You Reading? discussion. Books are chosen by October 20: How to Be an Antiracist members at a planning meeting in April 20: The Splendid and the Vile: A by Ibram X. Kendi (2019, 241 pp). Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance the Spring, and are listed each month Non-fiction. on the CHV website calendar and in by Erik Larson (2020, 546 pp including the CHV News. The club generally November 17: Beloved by Toni notes). Non-fiction. alternates fiction and non-fiction, both Morrison (1987, 320 pp). Fiction. Interested Villagers should register classic and contemporary. December 15: Sharing favorite poems. with the CHV office before each The Lit Club is open to all members January 19: Apeirogon: A Novel by Tuesday so that they can be sent the and social members and welcomes Colum McCann (2020, 475 pp). Fiction. Zoom link on the day of the meeting. new participants. Some people attend regularly, and others attend only when they are interested in the book being Save the Date for the LGBTQ discussed. Discussion meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 4:00 Inter-Generational Symposium p.m. (note the earlier time). Friday-Saturday, September 25-26 If you would like more information, Join Capitol Hill Village for a two-day virtual symposium centering on the and/or to be added to a Literary Club experiences and voices of LGBTQ community members of all ages. We will list-serve, contact Fran Zaniello at explore topics such as intersectionality, aging in community, creating and ([email protected]). Books for the sustaining generational wealth, grief, relationships, and much more. This 2020-2021 season: symposium will cultivate dialogue and solutions, ensuring to make space for July 21: The Great Influenza: The Story joy and movement. of the Deadliest Pandemic in History We are also looking for people to submit topics of interest that they may by John Barry (2004, 560 pp includes want to make a presentation on. If you have a topic that you believe needs to notes). Non-fiction. be discussed regarding the LGBTQ community, send your pitch to Aleshia August 18: The Water Dancer: A Novel Faust at [email protected]. Pitches should be no longer than 1-2 by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019, 224 pp). paragraphs and submitted by Tuesday, September 1. Be on the look-out for Fiction. registration to CHVs first LGBTQ Inter-Generational Symposium.

July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News • 5 Meet the Metzgers By Deborah Hanlon The recent stay-at-home order has not been too stressful for Norm and Nancy Metzger, but they are looking forward to things getting back to “normal.” Norm misses Nats baseball games and Bluegrass nights at Mr. Henry’s. Nancy particularly misses singing with the Christ Church Choir. Nevertheless, they stay busy doing what they love—reading, cooking, and staying connected with friends and family. Among their other hobbies is caring for a large garden populated with a family of native eastern box turtles. They love living in their historic 1850’s home on Capitol Hill. Norm describes Norm and Nancy in Turkey the neighborhood as “walking out the about this move, Norm read a story the time as a senior executive in the front door and finding life.” in The New York Times about Capitol organization. He was an Advisory The couple just celebrated their 45th Hill’s famous deli, Mangialardo’s, and Neighborhood Commissioner for wedding anniversary. Nancy grew decided DC must not be such a bad three years. As one of the founders of up in the DC area. Norm moved here place to live after all. He relocated Capitol Hill Village in 2006, he has from New York, when the American in 1969 and has never regretted it, served CHV in various capacities. Chemical Society, where he worked, especially after meeting Nancy at a His citywide efforts include revising decided to relocate its New York office dinner party in DC. They married city policies to require covered to Washington. A little reluctant in 1974 and Norm’s Ben joined them; pedestrian walkways at construction three years later Ted was born. sites rather than forcing walkers to Nancy studied landscape architecture cross the street. Among his more at North Carolina State University recent activities has been serving as a and has been active in many Capitol volunteer evaluator for the American Hill institutions: Christ Church, Council on International Education. Capitol Hill Day School, Capitol Hill Norm and Nancy combine their love History Project, and the Capitol Hill of people and travel by exchanging Restoration Society. With CHRS, homes and living in other cities Nancy led efforts to extend the and countries for a week or two at a Capitol Hill Historic District to the time. Since 2006, they have done this Navy Yard and to landmark Anne with families from San Francisco, Archibald Hall in Reservation 13. New York, Holland, Wales, Canada, From 2012 to 2017, she was a member London, and Guadeloupe. of the DC Historic Preservation Norman has written several books, Review Board, which considers including most recently two Kindle new construction and alterations in Singles—Separating and Remaining, historic districts and landmarks. on his time as a child in Nazi Norm, trained in chemistry, worked Germany, and Capitol Hill in 50 (or much of his career for scientific so) Lunes: A Neighborhood Portrayal institutions including 25 years at in “American Haikus.” the National Academy of Sciences— Wedding Day 1974 National Research Council, much of

6 • July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News Village Voices Waiting to be Heard… Voices will be taking a vacation this summer, but ready to go for the fall season with a lineup of speakers. Meet and learn from your illustrious Capitol Hill neighbors in informal, free, public discussions about social, economic, and political topics. September: Karen Mulhauser (delayed from last March). Women and the vote after 100 years of suffrage. First Impeachment Threat? George Washington October: Peter Stein (delayed from Presidential impeachment was the member of the Senate voted against April). Author of A Boy’s Journey: topic for Paul Rosenzweig when he a President from the same party. From Nazi-Occupied Prague to spoke via Zoom at the June Voices The legal issues surrounding Freedom in America; Growing Up in program: impeachment have never been World War II Prague. Impeachment was on the table right definitively resolved; restrictions on November: Robert Perciaseppe, out of the box—Jefferson wanted to the presidency are essentially the President of the Center for Climate impeach President Washington for judgement of the citizenry. and Energy Solutions, discussing signing the Jay Treaty with Great Rosenzweig worked on the Clinton “Climate Solutions and Britain, bringing an end to the investigation and is a frequent Climate Justice.” Revolutionary War. commentator in print and on December: Donna Breslin, Costume President Trump’s Senate trial was television. He teaches at the George designer—”How to Become a the first impeachment trial where Washington University Law School Designing Woman.” no witnesses were called. It was and serves on the District of Columbia also the first time in history that a Bar’s Ethics Rules Review Committee. Show Us What You’ve Got! If you are a writer, painter, singer, Artwork in any medium And, absolutely anything else that story-teller, a poet, musician, or (you’ll probably have to submit it as comes to mind. Shameless sales someone who just has something to a photo) pitches are welcome! say or something to show off, you can Photography from the Newsletter contributions should be share your knowledge, skills and pride neighborhood or the world sent to the CHV Newsletter editor at in the August CHV News and on the Book excerpts or reviews [email protected] by Friday, CHV Facebook page. Cartoons July 17. Facebook items should be sent What are we looking for? Without to Roxanne Walker at rw99dc@gmail. trying to limit creativity, here are For the CHV Facebook page: com. (Note: If your video or audio some suggestions for the August issue Video or audio of members playing file is larger than 20 MB, please email of CHV News: an instrument or singing, or Roxanne WITHOUT the attachment Essays about any topic—opinion, dancing (Zumba anyone?) and we’ll figure out how to transfer the humor, high-brow, etc. (preferably Short videos that members have file using DropBox or a USB drive.) less than 300 words) made—maybe a garden tour or a If you have questions, contact Karen Poetry, haiku, or lunes favorite walk Stuck at the above e-mail address or Embroidery, needlework, quilts or Recordings of members reading a 202-460-8967. any other needlework story or telling a joke

July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News • 7 Meeting Transportation Needs for Seniors and People with Disabilities In response to the re-opening of the Medicaid. You must have no other way Eligibility District, we want to ensure that CHV of going to your medical appointment. Residents of the District who are members are aware of the available How to schedule a ride 60-years and older and have a medical transportation options to meet their • condition requiring essential life- travel needs. Individuals who are You must call MTM three business days before the appointment. Call sustaining appointments. Medicaid especially vulnerable to serious illness clients are not eligible for the program from COVID-19 are encouraged to them at 1-866-796-0601. • limit travel to what is essential. Due Please have the following How to schedule a ride to the changing situation regarding information ready: Full name, • Call 202-420 7533 transportation in response to COVID current address, and telephone • Press 1 to book a new ride or safety, CHV will periodically send number to check on the status of an • electronic and paper communications Medicaid ID number existing ride • to members. Doctor name, address, and phone • The Agent will request the number Following is information about non- purpose of the ride and confirm emergency medical transportation Yellow Cab Company of DC Inc. the telephone number, pickup and provided by MTM and Yellow Cab destination • https://dcyellowcab.com/ • of DC and how the DC Department Press 2 to speak to a Customer senior-medexpress/ Service representative at DACL if of For-Hire Vehicles is expanding • 202-420-7533 you have not used the service in the parameters for the Transport DC and • *Medicaid clients are NOT eligible Taxi to Rail programs. past two years for this service. • Press 3 for assistance with other If you have questions or would like Senior MedExpress service questions assistance navigating the various Senior MedExpress provides life- options, contact Tomeka Lee, CHV DFHV: Government of the Transportation Outreach Manager, at sustaining medical transportation to [email protected] or 202- low-income, functionally impaired District of Columbia Department 543-1778, ext. 107. persons to achieve and maintain of For-Hire Vehicles function and independence in the DFHV is expanding the program MTM community. parameters for Transport DC and • https://www.mtm-inc.net/ Transportation services are provided Taxi to Rail (T2R) as part of • 1-866-796-0601 for essential medical appointments: evolving needs in the COVID-19 • Available for DC Medicaid • Cancer treatment public health emergency. Recipients • Dialysis Transport DC • MTM arranges non-emergency Adult primary care appointments • 1-844-322-7732 • health-related transportation within Health-related public benefits • If using a landline phone, you must the Washington, DC metropolitan Enroll dial “1” at the start of the number area. This includes: • Please call 202-724-5626 to enroll Available for those registered with • The city of Washington, DC with one of DACL’s customer service MetroAccess • • The suburbs of Montgomery and representatives from 8:30 a.m. to DFHV has added all local (within Prince Georges County in Maryland 4:30 p.m. the borders of DC) grocery stores to • The Northern Virginia counties of the Transport DC program during Fairfax and Arlington Applicants will be required to the restricted period of the month • The City of Alexandria provide proof of age, DC residency (16th to the end of the month) and medical necessity. Applicants • Eligibility Click here for a list of eligible enrolling for transportation to public grocery stores You must live within the District or benefits not need to prove medical reside in a long-term care facility necessity. Click to download the SME or nursing home. You must receive Application Form and the Healthcare Provider Certification Form.  continued on page 9

8 • July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News Transportation Needs for Seniors and People with Disabilities continued from page 8 Transport DC is a premium same- Taxi2Rail (T2R) • Trips up to $20 on the meter day, cost-effective alternative • Taxi-to-Rail Service is available are free. • transportation. $5 one-way taxi ride citywide Passenger is responsible for fare for those registered with MetroAccess. • (202) 727-3827 or beyond $20. Ride anywhere in the District from book online at taxi2rail.com. How to schedule a ride the 1st to the 15th of the month. Rides Allowable trip purposes include: To use this service, simply call for employment, medical services, and 202-727-3827 or book online at grocery stores during the remainder of • To and from grocery stores taxi2rail.com. the month. • To and from medical appointments • To and from pharmacies Wheelchair accessible vehicles are Riders must show a MetroAccess ID also available. number at the time of service. • To and from Metro stations citywide • Trips for essential workers to and Hours of Operation Eligibility from their workplaces (Keep in • Mon–Fri, 5:30am–10:00pm Participants enrolled for MetroAccess mind this includes Home Aides • Sat, 7:00am–10:00pm How to schedule a ride who may be traveling to and from a • Sun, 8:00am–10:00pm residential address). At time of booking, passengers must Book your ride by calling 1-844-322- Service policies 7732 (you must dial “1” if calling from state the purpose of their trip (e.g. a landline phone). • All trips are within DC only. grocery, pharmacy, Metro, or essential Trips to Virginia and Maryland are healthcare worker). Type of appointment not allowed. Doctor, therapy, etc. Gail Kohn Recognized First Amendment Questions? The Newseum may be closed, but the Freedom Forum continues its advocacy and educational pro- grams addressing contemporary First Amendment issues. Wednesday, July 22 at 1:00 Upcoming free hour-long summer p.m.: Free Speech Essentials classes include: Through critical debates Founding Capitol Hill Village Wednesday, July 8, 1:00 p.m.: participants will explore Executive Director Gail Kohn is Media Ethics the foundations, flare-ups, the recipient of the 2020 Morris & and frontiers of this First Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award During this session consider the Amendment freedom. for Distinguished DC Government ethical issues journalists face Register HERE. Employees. Established in 2000, the as they strive to be accurate, Cafritz Awards annually recognize fair, and clear. Grounded in Wednesday, August 5 at 1:00 five DC government employees the right to press freedom and p.m.: Fighting Fake News for outstanding performance, utilizing real-life case studies, Wednesday, August 19 at 1:00 commitment, and professionalism. participants grapple with issues p.m.: Media Ethics Winners receive a cash prize and a journalists may encounter, Wednesday, September 2 at 1:00 trophy. Kohn currently serves as Age- including privacy, anonymous p.m.: Free Speech Essentials Friendly DC Coordinator in the Office sources, and the pressure to be of the Deputy Mayor for Health and first. Register HERE. For more information: www.freedomforuminstitute.org. Human Services.

July 2020 Capitol Hill Village News • 9 July CHV Events are Both Virtual and In-Person Villagers have been Zooming all over the place! This Once that link is clicked or you paste it in your browser, technology has allowed a number of the affinity groups to you will need to click on “open zoom meetings” and then continue meeting—virtually instead of in-person. “join with computer audio.” CHV is also slowly resuming some in-person activities. No computer or other internet device? No problem! Affinity groups may now meet outdoors, in masks, in You can also use your phone to call and listen in and groups of up to 10. Members are asked to bring their own participate in a Zoom meeting. Simply dial the number water and to stay home if they have had flu-like symptoms listed on the invitation and, when prompted, enter the or have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the last 14 meeting number. Voila! You’re Zooming! days. To register for an in-person event, visit the Capitol If you need assistance accessing the calendar, Hill Village website and register, or call the CHV Office contact the CHV Office at 202-543-1778 or for assistance (202-543-1778). Registration is strongly [email protected]. encouraged so that we can keep attendance to 10 or less. If you have not participated in a Zoom meeting, it may If the event is listed as “Virtual,” then you can access it be helpful to watch a tutorial video, which also offers the through Zoom. Participants can attend either by phone opportunity to join a test meeting, so you can become (landline or cell phone) or through their computer or smart familiar with the screen and settings. Go to: https:// phone, where they will also have access to video. support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom- First step is to access the CHV website calendar. Video-Tutorials. Also, check the calendar for Virtual Tech To register for a virtual event, members can either Check sessions. register on the website, as in the past, or they can call the If you would like to host a CHV event virtually, CHV Office for assistance (202-543-1778). contact Jacquelyn Smith at 202-543-1778 or jsmith@ For video access, each program will have a unique web capitolhillvillage.org to help you organize your event link. Click on “Details” in the event notice and you will specific information. see the web link.

July Events List Calendar changes are on-going, so check the CHV website at capitolhillvillage.org.

Thursday, July 1, 6:00–7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Virtual Event: History & Biography Virtual Event: Purls of Wisdom The reading choice for the History & Biography group is Join friends and neighbors for conversation and work on The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. This is your favorite yarn project. There will not be lessons, but the epic story of the great migration of African Americans we may be able to help a bit; this is for folks with some from 1915 to 1970 from the Jim Crow South to northern experience with knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, etc. and western cities—an exodus of almost six million people For more information, contact Nancy Lee at that changed the face of America. The author combines the [email protected]. general history with the stories of three Wednesdays, July 8 through August 5, individuals 10:00 a.m.–12 Noon and their Virtual Event: Healing Circles families.See page 5 for The Healing Circle serves as a place upcoming for safe sharing and moving through book choices any type of grief or loss. At this time of and meeting uncertainty when grief and loss are in dates. the foreground, a Healing Circle can be a place for you to find solace and non-judgmental support.  continued on page 11

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Typically, Healing Circles begin with opening agreements, Register for the event at: https://www.smithlife time to check in, time for meditation, and time to read communities.org/event/the-red-flags-of-elder-abuse- a book on a shared topic of interest. While attending all neglect-and-financial-exploitation/ sessions is not required, participants are encouraged to attend each session in an effort to build relationships and Thursday, July 9, 6:00–7:30 p.m. community. (For information, contact Marilyn Goldberg at [email protected].) Virtual Event: Cinephiles Pattie Cinelli’s article in The Hill Rag (5/2017) is an excellent Participants should try to see introduction to our process. You can read it here. as many of these as they can. Some may be available on other streaming platforms as well. Wednesday, July 8, 2:00–4:00 p.m. 1. Bad Education; HBO, Virtual Event: Poetry Readers additional monthly expense Each attendee may (but is not required to) bring a poem 2. Da5Bloods, directed by Spike to read and share with the group. Join us for a lively Lee; Netflix conversation about what we think the poem means and more 3. Shirley, Elizabeth Moss plays exploration of the topics the poems touch on. This is a virtual author Shirley Jackson (The meeting so please email a copy to [email protected] Lottery is her most famous so it can be shared with other attendees. short story); Hulu 4. Jon Stewart’s Irresistible; 6/26 Thursday, July 9, 10:00–11:30 a.m. on Amazon, Apple, Directv, Fandango Virtual Event: The Red Flags of Elder Abuse 5. Good Trouble; 7/3, streaming not yet announced 6. The Runner; Netflix, not yet available 7. Planet of the Humans, a Michael Moore production; free, You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE Members and Social Members.

Sunday, July 12, 2:00–3:00 p.m. Virtual Event: CHV Family Caregiver Meet-up This a confidential, peer-lead community space where caregivers can receive respite through sharing challenges, delights, expectations, and frustrations among fellow caregivers. This is a group of caregivers who live on or near Capitol Hill. Caregiving is different for everyone. A webinar presented by the ElderSAFE Center. One in ten Some of us provide direct care, some of us help manage older adults will experience some form of abuse, neglect, or a team of paid caregivers, some of us provide emotional financial exploitation. Unfortunately, only one in 24 cases or physical support. Our loved ones have different needs, is ever reported. This training is designed for community diagnoses, and symptoms. What we have in common members, neighbors, Village members, and caregivers is our shared sense of love and responsibility for a close to better understand the issue of elder abuse. Attendees friend or family member. will learn how to spot the warning signs of elder abuse, especially now with social distancing guidelines in place. And, attendees will learn how to respond effectively if they Calendar changes are on-going, so check the are concerned about an older or vulnerable adult in their CHV website at capitolhillvillage.org. life, including information on Adult Protective Services and other local community resources.

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Monday, July 13, 1:00–2:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, 4:00–5:30 p.m. *New Time Virtual Event: Wyze Guyz Virtual Event: CHV Literary Club Although it won’t be as yummy as Tunnicliff’s, the Wyze Note: Signup deadline is Noon, Monday, July 20 Guyz will hold a Zoom talk-session, and among the topics In July, the Village Literary Club will read The Great we will discuss are: Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 1. How are you progressing on any project you took up by John M. Barry (2004, 560 pp including notes). Not because of Covid-19’s self-isolation? only was the 1918 pandemic 2. We agreed at the last meeting we are probably wise in itself hideously deadly not to take too active a (street) role in protests around (4,597 people died in one issues we nevertheless care deeply about. What are our week in Philadelphia), but its alternatives? repercussions on civil society 3. Other topics? were very revealing in the light of our own COVID- 19 pandemic. In 1918, the Monday, July 20, 6:30–8:00 p.m. government routinely lied about Virtual Event: Iona/CHV Support Group for what was happening, law-and- order was slip-shod, and the Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia military took an inordinate and This support group is for spouses, partners, adult children, fatal role in policing matters and others who are coping with the challenges of being a because the Great War was still on. The extent of President caregiver for an older family member Wilson’s illness was hushed by the President himself, and or friend with dementia. Join us to the book argues that he was a mentally damaged negotiator share your experience and to get in the Versailles Treaty negotiations when the war ended. support and helpful information. The The book has been described as “monumental, powerfully group is led by professionals from intelligent, and unflinching,” and is praised for its scope: Iona. reviewers noting its strengths as political, cultural, and For more information, contact Katie scientific history. See page 5 for upcoming book choices. Garber at CHV at 202-543-1778 or the Members and Social Members. group facilitator, Bill Amt at bamt@ iona.org. Thursday, July 23, 3:00–4:30 p.m. Open to All Virtual Event: Parkinson’s Support Group Tuesday, July 21, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. The Parkinson`s Support Group is for individuals with Parkinson`s to share knowledge, challenges, tactics, and Virtual Event: Purls of Wisdom provide support to one another. Join friends and neighbors for conversation and work on Open to All your favorite yarn project. There will not be lessons, but we may be able to help a bit; this is for folks with some experience with knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, etc. Wednesday, August 5, 6:00–7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Nancy Lee at nancylee8891@ Virtual Event: History & Biography gmail.com. Discussion will be on Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana. Before the Spanish conquest, what we now call Latin Calendar changes are on-going, so check the America was home to some of the most advanced CHV website at capitolhillvillage.org. civilizations on earth; it is now impoverished and violent.

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Tom Gjelten of The Washington in a safe and supportive setting. Discover new health and Post wrote “the book’s greatest wellness activities, community resources, and virtual ways strengths are the power of its to engage while social distancing. To register, contact Linda epic narrative, the beauty of its Irizarry at DACL: [email protected] or 202-355-4443. prose and its rich portrayals of character.” See page 5 for Wednesdays, 12 Noon–1:00 p.m. upcoming book choices and meeting dates. Virtual Event: Meditation Hour Patrick Hamilton will guide simple exercises, that alone or in combination can help break the cycle of mental stress we experience and can be incorporated easily into your daily schedule. Patrick is a member of the Washington Buddhist Vihara and Ongoing Events List Bhavana Forest Monastery and Retreat Center in West Virginia. Mondays, 3:00 p.m. Open to All Garfield Park, South Carolina Ave. at Second St. SE Petanque Thursdays, 4:00 p.m. Join a group of Capitol Hill game enthusiasts for a friendly Virtual Event: Chair Yoga game of Petanque, which is the French game of boules and similar to the Italian game of bocce. Paul Cromwell provides Join us via Zoom as CHV member Robin Blum hosts instruction for beginners. For further information call Paul Chair Yoga. at 543-7530. Open to All

Mondays, 4:00–5:00 p.m. Virtual Event: LGBTQ Social Hour Join us for an inter-generational social hour. LGBTQ folks of all ages and abilities are welcome to join to chat with one another. A great way to connect with others as we work to combat isolation and continue to foster relationships. Bring your questions and topics that interest you, and get ready for a few ice breakers. Hope to see you there!

Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Virtual Event: DACL Caregiver Support Group These programs are sponsored by the DC Department of Aging and Community Living. Share your experiences

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