Girma Hailu came to the United States as a refuge from Ethiopia in the late 1980s. After the fall of the Selassie government in Ethiopia, his early years in Ethiopia were ones of hunger and famine. He endured one of the worst humanitarian events of the 20th century....
In the 1970’s, Malcolm Peabody and his wife Pamela moved to Washington, where Peabody, known to all his friends as Mike, took a job in the Nixon administration. Coming from a politically engaged and civic-minded Yankee family long-settled in Massachusetts, he brought...
Interview Date: Monday, March 18, 2019 Interviewer: Hazel Denton Transcript: Reinhart, Robert.pdf Robert Rinehart Interviewer is Hazel Denton, 3/18/2019. Hazel Denton: Today is Monday, March the 18th, 2019. My name is Hazel Denton. I am sitting here in my living...
A native of Washington DC, Chris Addison grew up living in Georgetown. In 1981 Chris and his wife Sylvia Ripley founded the Addison/Ripley Fine Art Gallery, in a large, historic carriage house behind the Phillips Collection. Now, long established in Georgetown at the...
Grace Addison told CAG Oral History interviewer Patty Murphy that the Addison family received “a grant by Charles II… that’s how long the Addisons have been around here.” Though she grew up in Chicago, Grace’s father believed speaking with a southern accent was...
In her interview with Janet Kandel and Cathy Farrell, Edith Shafer talks about moving to Georgetown in 1960 when she married and what it was like to raise her family here. She tells how she became involved with the Garden Club and, in 2017, Edith, Lee Childs and...
