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".

Former DC Council member Sharon Ambrose, a Chicago native, was born to political life, accompanying her grandfather in door- to-door campaigning during the 1950s.

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.

Helene Au was born on Capitol Hill and spent almost all of her 105 years living here. She died on May 18, 2019. Miss Au's paternal grandfather settled on Capitol Hill in 1873 when he immigrated from Germany and took a position with the Marine Band.

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.

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

Linda Barnes moved to Washington as a young bride in 1963, and had lived on East Capitol Street for 35 years when she was interviewed in 2002.

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.

Bill Boswell’s family lived at 11 D Street SE for 160 years—almost as long as Capitol Hill has been a residential community. As the last Boswell to live there, Bill's interviews cover generations of house, family, and neighborhood history.

A fifth generation Washingtonian on one side of her family and daughter of an Irish immigrant on the other, Ellen Cannon Breen lived from age 2 to 17 on Capitol Hill, from 1920 to the mid-1930s.

When asked how he got ‘sucked into’ one of the volunteer tasks he performed during his years on Capitol Hill, Bruce Brennan answered, “I like to be a helper.” Stories about his activities, as told during the interview, support that statement.

Patricia Briel, youngest child in a large family, grew up in a house at 315 First Street SE, later torn down and currently the location of the Capitol South Metro station.

Capitol Hill native Rosetta Brooks has taught ballet to two generations of dancers at St. Mark's Church.

Sah Brown served as the dynamic principal of Capitol Hill’s Eastern High School for six years. In this interview, he describes his nontraditional route to a career in education and talks about Eastern’s distinguished history, vibrant present, and supportive community.

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

Carl Cole was born in Southwest Washington but his ties to Capitol Hill are extensive.

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

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.

Leah Daniels, founder and owner of gourmet kitchenware store Hills Kitchen, which she opened in 2008, was honored with a joint 2014 Community Achievement Award along with her parents, Maygene and Steve Daniels.

Claire and Larry Davis, Capitol Hill residents since 1969, bought their house for its garden and made extensive use of it through the years. 

Vincent DiFrancesco was born at home in 1916 at 137 B Street SE, also his father's shoe repair shop. His 2013 interview is full of stories of the immediate neighborhood.

In 1960, Pat Taffe Driscoll and her husband Bill moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they and their three sons had close-up views of a challenging period in the country's history.

John Ford, born on Capitol Hill in 1924, grew up in a large family at 328 Ninth Street SE and lived and worked most of his life on Capitol Hill. 

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.

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.

Marie Guy remembers many details of growing up during the 1930s and 40s behind the Sansalone family grocery store, now the site of the Rayburn House Office Building.

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.

Ann Higgins moved to Burke Street SE as a three year old and stayed until she was a high school student, then returned as an adult after many years in the suburbs. 

Sidney Hoffman spent his earliest years living over his father’s shoe store on H Street NE, and lived in several other locations in Northeast and Southeast during the 1920s. 

John Hogan, the first president of Capitol Hill Day School's Board of Trustees, and Ida Prosky talk at length about the school's founding during this interview.

Margaret Hutchison spent most of her early life in Georgetown, but she lived in the Stanton Park neighborhood as a young woman in the mid 1920s and again as a mother in the late 30s and early 40s. 

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.

Born in Virginia, Mary Jerrell moved to Capitol Hill at age five in 1920. In this interview, Mary describes the comings and goings of her neighbors in the 800 block of East Capitol Street where she lived for almost 80 years. 

Joan and Frank Keenan were among the first wave of young people who came to Capitol Hill in the 1950s to renovate an old house and raise a family. 

Marguerite Kelly and her husband Tom moved to Capitol Hill in 1953 to help care for his aging parents, and she remains here to this day. Her interview's vividly told stories focus on the early years of child rearing and community activism.

Hazel Kreinheder and her husband Bob purchased a house on Kentucky Avenue just off Lincoln Park in early 1963. They are still living in that same house in 2020.

When John and Elsie Leukhardt were interviewed in 1974, Elsie reminisced about having had the same phone number -- updated as the system changed -- for 70 years.

Stuart Long is best known as the co-founder of the Hawk and Dove restaurant and bar in the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, started in 1967 and named for that period's prevailing political factions.

Janice MacKinnon left her Hollywood, CA, hometown for DC in the 1960s to work for a California congressman, and in 1969 moved to Capitol Hill with her husband David. 

Goldie Mamakos was born on the Hill in 1930 at a house where her family and other Greek relatives lived. 

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

John "Peterbug" Matthews says his goal is to "save souls and heel people," a play on words that connects his Shoe Repair Academy to activities that benefit those in need, especially children. 

Oley Morgan was born in 1917 and grew up on Capitol Hill. From the age of 12, his primary interest was boxing, at the Knights of Columbus, then the Merrick Boys Club, the Police Boys Club, and eventually for the Marine Corps.

Freda Herrmann Murray, about 81 years old at the time of her interview, was born to German parents who operated a grocery, funeral home, and made bottled root beer and ginger ale.

When Beth Eck interviewed Mary Donohoe Murray in 2003, she learned about a close extended family. 

Annie Bell Nelson and her husband Joseph purchased their house in the 600 block of South Carolina Avenue SE in 1948.

Spouses Elizabeth Nelson and Nick Alberti have made Capitol Hill their home since 1985, and throughout that time have made major contributions to the life of the neighborhood. 

Jean Noel’s parents met in DC in 1914 and married in 1915. Jean was born at 511 F Street NE and lived in several other houses in that neighborhood until her marriage after World War II.

Peggy O’Brien has lived on Capitol Hill, within a three-block radius of where she lives today, since coming to Washington to attend Trinity College in 1965.

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

James Perry is the band director of the Eastern High School Marching Band, AKA the “Blue and White Marching Machine” and “The Pride of Capitol Hill.”

Ida Prosky moved to Capitol Hill in 1960 with her husband, actor Bob Prosky, to be near Arena Stage Theater in Southwest, where Bob was a member of the resident company. 

Sharon Raimo began her career in education in the DC public schools on Capitol Hill, working closely with Veola Jackson and the early efforts to establish the Capitol Hill Cluster School.

Dr. Herbert Ramsey, Eastern High School Class of 1912, was interviewed in 1977 by Hazel Kreinheder. 

Gina Sangster came to Capitol Hill as a child in the early 1960s. In her interview, done via the Zoom app, she describes how her parents, Libby and Gilbert Sangster, started the business that became Antiques on the Hill.

Walter (Wally) Schwartz's father was resident manager of the Plaza Hotel, and later the Carroll Arms Hotel, and Walter grew up sharing an apartment in the hotels with his parents, eating most meals in the hotel restaurant. .

Becky and Michael Skinner’s impact on Capitol Hill can be felt from many a youth playing field to the founding of the Two Rivers Charter School to the origination of the Pendragwn Youth Film Festival.

Frances Slaughter joined Wee Care in the mid-1980s and became the beloved “Miss Frances” to two generations of neighborhood pre-schoolers. 

Larry Smith recreates the Capitol Hill neighborhood in which he grew up during and after World War II, when boys played baseball in the alleys and football on teams at the Merrick Boys Club. 

Brother and sister Elias and Mariana Souri grew up with their parents and paternal grandparents on Lincoln Park, in the house where they still resided at the time of the interview in 2002.

Born Margaret Fleming in 1920, Margaret Wadsworth was raised in her family’s home in the 500 block of Eighth Street SE and at other addresses on Capitol Hill. 

Julie Walker lived most of her life in the 600 block of C Street NE moving to the southeast quadrant shortly before this 2003 Interview.

Suzanne Wells and Mike Godec got involved with community activites on Capitol Hill the usual way: by seeing a problem and working to find a solution. 

Esther Yost was born on Capitol Hill in 1938 and lived here until she married in 1960; her parents remained in their house at 529 11th Street SE until 1990.