Ghosts of DC

My name is Tom. I’ve been living in and around Washington, D.C. since 2000 and I love my city. I also love history and this city has an abundance of it since well before Congress held its first session here in the partially completed Capitol building on November 17, 1800. Washington is 68.3 square miles, sitting at the swampy confluence of the Potomac and the Anacostia rivers, with countless neighborhoods strewn across eight distinct and diverse wards. It’s the city in which John F. Kennedy Jr. asked us what we could do for our country and where Martin Luther King Jr. told a quarter of a million people about his dream for the future of our America. It is the seat of our federal government, the birthplace of Marvin Gaye and Duke Ellington, the site of two presidential assassinations (Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield), the city where Marriott was founded and the place where we build monuments to great Americans that shaped our nation.