by Erin Marovelli | Mar 31, 2021
We are not playing basketball, but we are madly dashing about the garden, tidying it up, and readying our pots for plants. DJ, one of our Guests with a decidedly green thumb, hit the ground running on March 1st and hasn’t stopped since. Besides paging through the...
by Erin Marovelli | Mar 19, 2021
As Friends of the Aged Woman’s Home may be aware, in the early 20th century, Georgetown, (especially the west side near the present-day Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown University, and Visitation School) was home to a large influx of Irish immigrants. While the...
by Erin Marovelli | Feb 22, 2021
February is fast passing us by, but here at the Home we managed to celebrate Valentine’s Day, despite our need to social distance, with another “holiday in a bag.” Our Staff Member, Judy Robinson, plied each Guest with a decorative bag filled with...
by Erin Marovelli | Jan 25, 2021
In November of 1868, the year of the Home’s founding, Republican Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois defeated Horatio Seymour of New York to win the 21st presidential election. Grant decisively won the electoral vote, but his margin was much narrower in the popular vote....
by Erin Marovelli | Dec 11, 2020
Concerns about COVID-19 left us sans our annual Town and Country Garden Club Members, who, with their holiday decorating expertise usually descend upon the Home in early December to decorate our mantles, trim our tree, and transform our front parlor into a scene of...
by Erin Marovelli | Nov 20, 2020
Worldwide and locally in the District as the winter months approach, Covid cases are surging. We hope all of our Friends, near and far, stay safe and well. Here at the Aged Woman’s Home of Georgetown, our independent-minded women have rolled up their sleeves and...
