EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)

Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide

Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.

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SECTIONS

1. 03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn
2. 06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)
3. 14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow
4. 21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues
5. 23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go
6. 28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people
7. 36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• D Listers of History podcast
• ’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
• The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode
• Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article
• A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian
• Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
• Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association
• Capitol Building Tunnel System
• What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!
• The D.C. Underground Atlas
• Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost
• Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C. 
• Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?
• Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks
• Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura
• Capitol Illumination
• Inside the Capitol Dome
• Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol
• Apotheosis of Washington
• Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument
• Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
• The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years
• How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11 
• 12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie
• Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger
• What happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’
• NIST Newton Apple Tree
• Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.
• After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank
• 269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.

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