Daily Archives: 30/04/2007

pictures from the scene

I posted a photo set from the Georgetown Public Library fire on my Flickr page. There were a lot of people from the community standing watch over the scene. There was optimism that things could be salvaged (especially archival documents and articles that resided in the Peabody Room), but the neighborhood felt an obvious pain. …

30/04/2007 – 21:08 | By randomduck | Posted in washington, dc | Comments Off

enough with the fires already

I woke up this morning to hear that DC’s historic Eastern Market suffered a devastating fire early this morning. The three-alarm blaze caused over $40 million in damage, displaced almost a dozen family-owned-and-operated food merchants, and upended one of the more unique neighborhoods in the District of Columbia. The mayor insists that the building will …

30/04/2007 – 12:53 | By randomduck | Posted in random, washington, dc | Comments (2)