Frederick Douglass's house & National Gallery of Art

  Another chilly day. Damon said last night that we seem to bring winter with us when we visit Washington and today was no exception.

    We drove to the National Gallery of Art for a quick tour of the impressionists.

Mary Cassatt

Plaster cast of St Gauden's statue that is on Boston Common.

We forget the artist! Help someone!

Stuart Davis

  Then we drove to Anacostia to "Cedar Hill", Frederick Douglass's last home, where we took a tour. Anna Gardner, about whom Barbara is writing, visited there twice, once while Douglass was alive, and once with his widow when Anna stayed several weeks. It was cool to imagine her sitting on the front porch gazing out toward the Capitol Building, the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress and the Washington Monument. We tried to imagine which bedroom she was given.

View from Cedar Hill. If you enlarge this, you can see the Washington
Monument, the Capitol and the Jefferson Building of the Library of 
Congress, the dome to the right of the Capitol. The view 
must have been so lovely when Douglass lived here.

Cedar Hill, home of Frederick Douglass

Helen Pitts Douglass

Dining Room at Cedar Hill

  Then we went to Capital Hill Crab Cakes in Anacostia, a tiny mostly take-out restaurant. As it was already 2, they were out of crab cakes. So, Mark settled for a shrimp po boy and Barbara had a salad with crab in it.