In this 2009 interview, Colleen Cruikshank talks with Sonda Allen, a gold and silversmith who has sold her own jewelry at Eastern Market since the early 1990s under the trade name Turtle's Webb.

Joel Bailes plays the piano and the fiddle and Pearl the harmonica with the Capitol Hillbillies, the performing group they founded in 1983. Even if you don’t recognize their names, you probably have enjoyed their music on the Hill.

Michael Berman, an artist and Capitol Hill resident, started selling his work at Eastern Market in 1992, when newcomers had to get in line early to get a spot among the Saturday outdoor vendors.

Roberta Blanchard opened Fairy Godmother book and toy store on Seventh Street SE in 1984. it's still in operation at the same location over three decades later. Prior to that, she'd had children and became involved in the neighborhood.

Anne Brockett, an architectural historian with the DC Historic Preservation Office, discusses the rehabilitation of Eastern Market in this June 2009, interview with Beth Hannold.

In 2009, Chuck Burger discussed his history as an owner of a store across from Eastern Market in the 1980s.

A grocer at Eastern Market since 1963, Chris Calomiris was for years one of the most familiar faces on Capitol Hill. What's less well known is that Chris was a Capitol Hill native.

Maria Calomiris worked alongside her husband Chris and later their sons at the Calomiris Fruits & Vegetables produce business in Eastern Market's South Hall, starting in the early 1960s. 

Leon Calomiris was interviewed by Peter Barker, an American University graduate student researching multi-generational Eastern Market South Hall vendor families.

Emilio Canales didn’t know much about meat in 1992, when he bought the Eastern Market South Hall business that became Canales Quality Meats.

Jose Canales was seeking the American Dream when he left El Salvador. In 1983, he became a South Hall vendor at Eastern Market. His 2009 interview is part of the Project's special focus on the Market.

In this 2010 interview, Steve Cymrot says "The Hebrew word for charity is the same as the word for justice," which helps explain Steve's and his wife Nicky's amazing history of service to Capitol Hill for over 40 years.

Dan Donahue's first experience as a vendor outside Eastern Market was selling bulbs for the Capitol Hill Garden Club. Next he sold plants that he raised on a rooftop in Southwest. 

Since 1991, artist and college history professor Eleanor Drabo has sold jewelry under the name Drabo Gallery at Eastern Market's weekend outdoor operation.

Karin Edgett developed a 2006 branding campaign for Eastern Market and created indoor and outdoor graphic signage that enlivened the temporary market structure after the 2007 fire.

When the 1999 Eastern Market legislation mandated creation of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee, the Stanton Park Neighborhood Association chose Monte Edwards as its representative. 

Capitol Hill resident Peter Eveleth decided in 1974 that DC's brand new system of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions sounded "very interesting," so he ran for commissioner of ANC 6B06 and was elected.

David Fowler's family has farmed and sold produce at Eastern Market since 1873, and before that at the city's Center Market. They were at the market the Saturday after the 2007 fire, not missing a week. 

In this April 2009, interview, Adiante Franszoon told Vera Oye’ Yaa-Anna about his 18 years as a vendor at Eastern Market. 

Brian Furness was interviewed by Mary Weirich in May 2005, just before he and his wife moved from Capitol Hill to New Orleans. By that time, he had been a Capitol Hill resident for over 35 years, in between State Department foreign postings. 

After moving to Capitol Hill in 1974 as a government worker, Larry Gallo interned with a silversmith and began exhibiting his own hand-crafted jewelry among the Arts and Crafts vendors at Eastern Market in 1992.

Bill Glasgow, owner of Union Meat Company in Eastern Market's South Hall, is a member of one of the longest active vendor families -- his father and uncle started the company in 1946.

In this interview, Bill Glasgow elaborates on his assessment of the "turning points for Eastern Market" throughout its history.

At the time of this interview, Ken Golding was president of Market Row Association, representing the interests of merchants and owners of the "bricks and mortar" businesses surrounding Eastern Market. 

William (Bill) Griffiths was instrumental in helping his friend John Harrod begin Eastern Market’s Saturday morning craft markets in 1980. In 2004 they teamed to sponsor the weekly tango lessons in the Market’s North Hall that continue to this day.

In the early 1970s, John Harrod founded the Market 5 Gallery in the North Hall of Eastern Market. 

Mel Inman, Sr. was interviewed by the Overbeck Project in 2009, so Peter Barker interviewed his son, Mel Inman, Jr., in October 2010, for a study of multi-generational Eastern Market vendor families. 

When he was interviewed in 2009, Mel Inman, Sr. was the owner of Market Poultry, renowned for the lines of customers buying its popular fresh turkeys at Thanksgiving.

Susan Jacobs has been a potter and manager with Eastern Market Pottery for many years. In this 2009 interview, she describes the original studio over the central hall of the Market and tells how it began in the late 1960s. 

Ken Jarboe served 12 years as an elected Commissioner for ANC 6B and was Chair during 2001 and 2002.

Parker Jayne made many neighborhood connections while organizing musical productions at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and in the process of founding the Capitol Hill Choral.

Joanne Jung and her husband owned Paik Produce at Eastern Market beginning in 2006. 

Soon after she moved to Capitol Hill in 1978, Malien Lane became one of the first six vendors selling outside Eastern Market's North Hall in the Saturday market begun by John Harrod.

Andrew Lightman moved to Capitol Hill in 1993 as a graduate student and is now the editor of the HILL RAG newspaper, located across the street from Eastern Market.

Barry Margeson began managing Eastern Market for the DC Department of Real Estate Services on January 1, 2009, and oversaw the June 2009 move from the temporary building to the restored 1893 building. 

Jerry Mark grew plants that he sold on the Eastern Market farmer's line starting in 1978.

Bernadette Mayo began selling bars of handmade soap in Eastern Market in 1996 and now sells over 17 different kinds, along with other "salts, lotions, and potions." 

Bill McLeod, was Executive Director of Barracks Row Main Street from August 2002 to December 2006, during the period in which the Capitol Hill Business Improvement District was being formed.

During the 1960s, Keith Melder was active in the Capitol Hill Community Council, a racially integrated civic organization attempting to supplant the predecessor segregated organizations that previously dominated civic life in D.C.

It's not often that a government functionary describes a meeting regarding a major project as "one of the most fun afternoons we had," but Kathleen Penney's June 2009 interview includes that quote. 

Gary Peterson was awarded the Community Achievement Award in 2008, largely based on his stewardship of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation's efforts to support Eastern Market merchants following the 2007 fire. 

Since the late 1960s, Tom Rall has been part of the Capitol Hill community, and those times "shaped the remainder of [his] life," as he states in this May 2009 interview.

Donna Scheeder was volunteer Chair of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) and was awarded a Community Achievement Award in 2009 in large part due to this service.

Baird Smith, FAIA, FAPT, Director of Preservation for QUINN EVANS | ARCHITECTS in Washington, DC, was director of the architect/engineering team for the Eastern Market project. 

Dan Tangherlini was the brand new City Administrator for brand new Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007 when he got the late night call that Eastern Market was on fire. The mayor told him it would be his job to fix it. 

Long-time Capitol Hill resident Peter Waldron had been writing for the Hill Rag for about two years when Eastern Market burned in 2007.

Tommy Wells was elected to represent Ward 6 on the DC City Council in 2006 and was sworn in less than four months before the April, 2007, Eastern Market fire.