Meet Major Walton Atwater Green, the Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C. in 1925. Don’t let him catch you with some hooch – this is not a guy you want to cross. Learn more about Major W.A. Green and his role in enforcing Prohibition in the nation’s capital.
Being a parent in the 1920s was no picnic. Arthur Dean, the Parent Counselor, takes a look at how parents had to deal with the wild and unruly teenagers of the day, with raging hormones and growing libidos, and decipher the slang of the day without Urban Dictionary. Read more about it here!
Discover the mysterious origins of D.C.’s official dinosaur, Capitalsaurus. Read about the bone found in 1898 and its controversial classification as a prehistoric beast, and the story of the District’s embrace of this unique creature.
