Historical Society 121st Anniversary!
Last night we also went to The Historical Society’s 121st Anniversary Celebration at Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square. A cocktail reception was followed by presenting the Visionary Historian Award to James Goode. We snapped him with Historical Society executive director John Suau and landscape architect Darwina Neal.
Dr. Goode is the author of six books on DC history, including Capital Losses: Washington’s Destroyed Buildings and Best Addresses: 100 Years of Washington’s Distinguished Apartment Houses. His seventh book, Capital Houses: Historic Residences will be published in Nov. Here, FBB Federal Relations’ Peter Friedmann, his wife Historical Society trustee Debra Friedmann, and Historical Society’s Anne McDonough and Katrina Ingraham.
The Visionary Historian award is presented for lifetime work on DC history. Here, DC Historical Society Board chair Julie Koczela, Dragon/ Unicorn Strategies’ Eugene Dewitt Kinlow, and Public Service Commission Chair Betty Ann Kane.
People bid on 70 works of art in For the Record: Artfully Historic DC, in which local artists captured images of iconic DC buildings. Here, US Capitol Historical Society chief historian William diGiacomantonio with Kathy Smith, last year's Visionary Historian awardee.
Travis Holler, Liz Ovits and Alfredo Flores contributed to this issue.
