In an interview in his home with Linda Greenan and Cathy Farrell, John Laytham talks about his 50 plus years with the Cyldes Group and his involvement with a growing and changing Georgetown. John was a freshman student at Georgetown University in 1964 when he applied...
In the late 70s Gary Tischler arrived in DC from California as a young freelance writer. He intention was to go to work for the “Washington Post” but he met Dave Roffman, second publisher of “The Georgetowner,” who encouraged him to write a story about Ted Kennedy’s...
The indomitable nonagenarian, Sarah Yerkes, moved to Washington with her first husband, as she describes it, “in the spring of 1945, just before the bomb dropped. We rented a house in Georgetown that belonged to Phil and Millie Watts on 29th Street.” So begins her...
Margaret Meenehan and Sharon Meenehan O’Brian shared with Cathy Farrell a brief history of the Meenehan family who owned a number of hardware stores in the DC area including the favorite one, Meenehan’s Hardware on M Street. From a large family of Irish heritage, the...
Ellen Charles has been an extremely successful board director of Hillwood, the estate of her formidable Grandmother, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Ellen Charles’ s vision and leadership has taken a family home and professionalized it into a well respected museum that is...
