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Katie Kirkpatrick
Feb 7, 20214 min read
The Unsung Doyenne of the Halfway House
On the corner of S and 15th Street is a pretty grey-and-white house that once belonged to the woman who was responsible for one of the...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jan 31, 20213 min read
The DC Roots of Black History Month
On the southeast corner of the intersection of 12th and U Street NW, there is an office building that until very recently had a Starbucks...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jan 24, 20213 min read
The Blue castle in Navy Yard
Navy Yard is one of those neighborhoods in DC that is essentially 90% unrecognizable from even just ten years ago. The modern multi-story...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jan 10, 20214 min read
When the Capital was Punk
Oh the 80s, a decade that defined a generation who spent it separating themselves from its Baby Boomer parents; a decade that saw the...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jan 3, 20217 min read
To Market, to Market
If you’ve been to any major city in Europe you may have come across the old central markets, many that are still in use today. Typically...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Dec 26, 20203 min read
DC's Early Drag Queen Scene
These days it's not too hard to find a drag show in the District. There is Perry's in Adams Morgan, one of the most well known drag...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Dec 7, 20204 min read
The Canal that Flows Beneath the City
Something I love about DC is that no matter how long I live here, there always seems to be something new to discover. Sometimes it's the...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Gratitude
Reflecting on this year, strange and challenging as it may have been, I still feel a sense of gratitude this Thanksgiving. At the...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Nov 14, 20203 min read
T and 7th - Where DC's Black Community Took a Stand
At the intersection of 7th and T Street NW currently stands a school, a bank, a CVS and a Chinese restaurant. In the summer of 1919,...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Nov 4, 20203 min read
One of America's Most Hotly Contested Elections - 1877 Version!
When you are a DC resident you can't help but be confronted by politics every day, which can be both thrilling and exhausting. The last...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Oct 23, 20202 min read
Gentrification and its Discontents
(K Street at Dawn) One side effect of studying the history of a city in depth is that you start to imagine it as it was, both the good...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Sep 12, 20203 min read
The Poster Child of the Unconventional Woman
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about unconventional women. Despite three waves of feminism, and possibly being in the middle of a...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Aug 19, 20204 min read
Jazz - The First American Musical Export
Back in the 1950s through the 70s, the US Government was fighting what they saw as a life or death battle for global supremacy with the...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Aug 12, 20203 min read
Prostitutes Are People, Sex Work is Real Work
If you have ever taken my Madams of DC tour, this is a refrain you may have heard me state a couple of times: #Prostitutesarepeople...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Aug 6, 20203 min read
For the love of Cemeteries
I was a macabre kid from the get-go, let's just get that right out there. For some reason I had very romantic notions of death since...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jul 21, 20203 min read
The Ultimate Ambassador's Wife
The State Department is where I've spent the last fifteen years of my career. I was fascinated by the lives of diplomats past and...
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Katie Kirkpatrick
Jul 13, 20202 min read
The First Step is the Scariest, but Always the Most Satisfying
I just had my first "official" tour! Huzzah! Finally the planning stage went into the execution stage. Fighting my imposter syndrome, I...
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Jul 5, 20203 min read
Stepping into the Waters of (potential) Controversy
As I am on the eve of officially launching this whole endeavor, the list of "what ifs" starts to pile up, as well as the "to dos", and...
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Jun 24, 20202 min read
So, What's With the Costumes?
Ah yes, a question I've heard many a time in my life. I have loved wearing costumes since I was a little girl. Halloween has always been...
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May 31, 20202 min read
Travel in the Age of Coronavirus
There are hundreds of industries that have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, and one of those dearest to my heart is the tourism...
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