Long before D.C. baseball fans started cheering for the Nationals, D.C. came close to landing a different MLB franchise — The San Diego Padres. Jerseys were printed, schedules were made, and the team was nearly moved, but a last minute deal kept them in San Diego, beginning a 33-year baseball drought in D.C.
In 1982, as federal funding for the arts faced cuts, a multiracial women's coalition in D.C. created Sisterfire, a women's festival. What began as a one-day event quickly grew into an annual celebration of women artists.
In 1860, a 21 year old man named Edward Payson Weston made a wild bet: if Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election, he would walk the nearly 500 miles from Boston to Washington, D.C. This wager, initially a joke between two friends, turned into a real challenge that would spark national headlines and launch a new kind of celebrity.
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