My parents and sister are getting ready to fly off to Greece for a month so I may have to turn an eye towards MY DC as in the present. My son just graduated from Hardy Middle School which was actually quite an accomplishment considering the building in Georgetown- the old Gordon Junior High- is being renovated. So this past year, Kit got up at six a.m., and took two buses to Hamilton which is a hulking ugly dinosaur of a school from the 1960s across from the DC Farmer's Market near New York and Florida Avenue. The school system now uses it as a swing space for schools like Hardy. The construction was supposed to be done by this fall, but if you drive by the old Hardy site, you will see that it's not happening. (Remember the Georgetown Flea Market? It used to be in Hardy's parking lot- right across from the social Safeway on Wisconsin Ave.)
So Kit and his friends are free and roaming the city, and it is a city they are getting to know rather well which is a good thing. Next fall Kit will be going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts which used to be Western High School- the same high school his grandparents, Bebe and George attended. Past meets present.
Congratulations, Kit!
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