Gary Abrecht’s interview spans the years 1967 to 2000 and is a warm and poignant recollection of over 30 years working in law enforcement in Washington, DC.

Mildred Allen, who lived in the same block as Christ Church starting in 1931, was known to all church members and neighbors as "Sis".

Maureen Shea and Kenn Allen are active volunteers, involved parishioners of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, and Capitol Hill residents for nearly 50 years. In 2023 they received a Capitol Hill Community Foundation Achievement Award for their dedication to the community.

Helen Atkins, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Valentine's Day 2008, arrived in Washington with her widowed father during World War I. She moved to Capitol Hill after her 1935 marriage and remained until recent years.

Georgiana Barnes married and moved to Capitol Hill, or Southeast Washington as it was called then, on Christmas Day 1933.

Pauline Bates was born in Alexandria, VA, in 1913, and spent 63 years of her adult life on Capitol Hill, at 506 Seventh Street SE.

Bryan Cassidy arrived in Washington from Ireland in the mid-1960s, newly wed and seeking employment as an architect. 

After Sig Cohen moved to Capitol Hill in 1986, his contributions to the neighborhood have included founding the Hill Havurah Jewish Community and participating in the Capitol Hill Group Ministry.

Mary Colston lived in the same two-story rowhouse in the 500 block of Second Street NE from 1947 until 2002. 

Isaac Fulwood, Jr. served Washington, DC, as Police Chief from 1989 to 1992, but long before that, his character was formed by the neighborhood near Kentucky Avenue SE that fostered a sense of community during his childhood. 

Dorothy Garris’s life on Capitol Hill involves her family, her teaching career, and the New United Baptist Church, founded by her late husband, the Reverend Grant Garris.

Working through Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian's Church, Hal Gordon and his wife Janice founded the Community Action Group to "[address] the social ills that were retarding the personal development and struggle of poor people." 

Neal Gregory arrived in DC in 1963, and in 1970 Janice Maxwell came to work for Texas Congressman Jake Pickle. They met when Neal came to Pickle's office to interview him, and they married the next year.

Emily Guthrie, who became executive director of the Capitol Hill Group Ministry in 2002, has noted that its membership has expanded beyond Christian churches and is now truly interfaith.

Cliff Hackett and his wife arrived in Washington in 1964 looking for housing for their family of six children; they'd already decided to live in the city and not commute.

Sidney Hais was born at home in 1914 above his father’s market at Seventh and C NE and remained active on the Hill until the 1980s when he ended his real estate investment activities in the neighborhood. 

When Rosetta Hall Hamm was born, her family was living near South Capitol and D Streets SE. They later moved to E Street SE, so Rosetta has spent almost her entire life on the Hill.

Siblings Charles Harris and Mary Winifred "Winnie" Harris Freeman were born and grew up in a house on Ninth Street SE that had been in their family for nearly 100 years at the time of their August 2005, interview with Mary Ann Wyrsch. 

At the time of this 2001 interview, Eva and Walter Haynes still lived in the house on South Carolina Avenue purchased by her parents in 1949. 

June Hoffmann’s parents were married at St. Peter’s on Capitol Hill in 1911 and subsequently raised their 10 children on the Hill and in Congress Heights. 

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

Geraldine Matthews was born on Capitol Hill in 1923 and has spent her entire life here. 

Madonna McCullers moved to the Hill in 1950, where she balanced keeping house for her family with opening and operating her own beauty shop on Massachusetts Avenue.

Ronald McGregor and his family moved to Capitol Hill in 1968 after his retirement from the Navy, settling in the 700 block of Massachusetts Avenue NE and becoming active in the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, the Restoration Society and the Garden Club. 

Cornelia "Connie" Mitchell, a lifelong Washington resident, remembers seeing presidential inaugural parades as far back as Woodrow Wilson’s. 

In this interview, Caleb Morell, Senior Pastoral Assistant for Research at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, shared his knowledge of the church's history.

Nellie May Sweet Morton, born in 1897, was interviewed by Ruth Ann Perez and Hazel Kreinheder in 1974. 

Father Michael J. O'Sullivan was pastor of St. Peter's church on Capitol Hill for 35 years, starting in 1970. 

John Overbeck arrived in Washington in 1957 for a job at the Library of Congress

Bill Phillips had many different experiences before he moved to Capitol Hill in 1987 to become legislative director to an Alabama congressman; over time, he became involved with a wide range of activities in the community. 

Norman Schroth was born in 1905 and raised at 702 Maryland Avenue NE. He later moved to 404 Seventh Street NE. 

Bea (Beatrice) Shelton first became involved in the Lutheran Curch of the Reformation on East Capitol Street in 1945.

Lloyd Thompson grew up in the 1300 block of East Capitol Street after his family was displaced in the mid-1950s by what he calls "urban removal" in Southwest Washington. 

Ron Tutt's first home was 624 B Street NE (now Constitution Avenue) and he spent much of his life with his paternal grandmother who ran rooming houses.

Florine Walker Walther was born and raised at 420 B Street NE (later Constitution Ave NE). She was the daughter of Samuel Walker, a 19th century builder, investor, and briefly the police chief. 

Dr. Ben Williamowsky, now a retired dentist, came to Capitol Hill as a teenager in 1939 when his father Chaim Williamowsky became Rabbi of the Southeast Hebrew Congregation at 417 Ninth Street SE.

Shirley Womack grew up on Heckman Street SE, which was renamed Duddington Place when the restoration movement began on Capitol Hill. 

In this interview, Clarence (Clancy) Zens, a writer and editor by trade, relates how he crashed his Navy fighter plane into an Indiana farm at the end of World War II.