What we’re about
We are a touring club in the Washington, DC area focused on walks in and around historical, cultural, and scenic locales. Especially the towns and neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Alexandria, Lafayette Square, Georgetown, Annapolis, downtown Washington, et al. The excursions are led by a author-historian.
We add to the pleasure of a sociable outing the discovery of the cultural and historical aspects of the wayside along the routes, roads, and trails we tread. While benefiting from an invigorating hike or walk, time is taken for guests to share their knowledge of the architecture, human history, and natural history, of the area with the group.
Our current focus has been on the rich political and cultural history of the Capitol region.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Tour of Georgetown's Hidden History, Sunday, May 5, 5 pm!Old Stone House, Washington, DC$21.00
Tour of Georgetown's Secrets, Sunday, May 5, 4 pm!
Once a thriving, antebellum tobacco port, Georgetown was key to the founding of the nation’s capital, a place of bitter contention during the Civil War, long a site of political scandal and mysterious deaths, as well as a cockpit of Cold War, World War Two, and current espionage, even home to several of America’s most influential inventors.
A perfect place for a history walking tour of scandal, stunning achievements, misbehavior and intrigue, bracketed by some of the nation's finest architecture and bistros!
MEET: Outside the Old Stone House, 3051 M St., N.W. DC 20007
Register and Prepay in advance through:
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/2607231
Or Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-of-georgetowns-secrets-sunday-may-5-4-pm-tickets-893707401897?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or send $22 to savvyveteran@gmail.com, via PayPal:What:
The action-packed itinerary will select from the following persons & events:
• The nation's craziest house
• James Bond in Georgetown
• George Washington’s bodyguard, and a presidential murder
• The spy whose schemes killed dozens of CIA operatives
• The first woman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor
• Assassination conspiracies
• Mysterious hideaways for runaway slaves
• The femme fatale who bedeviled the KGB
• Mysteries of the Old Stone House
• Presidential scandals
• Astonishing cloak-and-dagger escapes
• America’s most haunted house
• The clever craft of Russian agents
• The woman spy who fooled fascist France, Nazi Germany--and J. Edgar Hoover
• The country's most historic house
• A famed female author’s brush with war-time horror
And more!!Who: Your host is is a former presidential speechwriter, a former writer for “The Tonight Show, author of many books of history, including, The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in Lafayette Square!:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorrAnd his latest, THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America’s Most Historic Locale:
THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America's Most Historic Locale: Moser, Edward P: 9798390045213: Amazon.com: BooksAnd, The Lost History of the Capitol!:
The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capitol-Tumultuous-Congress-ebook/dp/B099JBSN9Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=We’re on TripAdvisor!:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.htmlThink history’s boring? Think again!!
Join us at the height of Georgetown lovely spring!!
- City Hall to 17th St--Tour of Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood D.C.!The John Wilson Building, Washington, DC$22.00
City Hall to 17th St--Tour of Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood D.C.!, Tuesday, May 14, 2 pm!!
Take a fun and fascinating tour of Washington's most historic neighborhood, centered on the White House park!
Where: Meet in front of the D.C. City Hall, northeast corner, John Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC
Pre-Register and Prepay via—
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-hall-to-17th-st-tour-of-lafayette-square-white-house-neighborhood-tickets-892538044317?aff=oddtdtcreator
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/412812
Or PayPal, sending $22 to savvyveteran@gmail.com
https://www.paypal.com/us/homeIn this weekday tour, let's visit sites associated with the most astonishing evets in the capital city's past, in its most famous locale.
• Where the President and his fiancé escaped death
• The city's most controversial mayors
• The hotel that birthed a scandalous Washington practice
• When John Wilkes Booth encountered General Grant
• The cunning Mata Hari who caused the deaths of hundreds of U.S. soldiers
• The battle between the U.S. Army and U.S. Army veterans
• The sex scandal that wiped out an entire Cabinet
• Terrifying White House ghost tales
• The wily lass who gulled a brutal foreign enemy
• The greatest slave escape in American history
• The secret symbols within Lafayette Square’s architecture
• Graveyards and race tracks in the Square of old
• The civil rights lady who got the last laugh on her adversaries
• The spy who saved Mt. Vernon
• An invading army’s destruction of the Executive Mansion
• The femme fatale who nearly broke up Camelot
• Where MLK wrote the “I Have a Dream Speech”, and where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
• The First Lady who saved President's Park
• A traitorous head of the U.S. Army
• Heroine of DC's first pandemic
And more!!Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorrAnd his latest, a thriller set in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776Ntm his Lafayette Square book:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788We’re on TripAdvisor!:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.htmlQuestions? Ask here, or at: savvyveteran@gmail.com
Think history’s boring? Think again!!