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Join Us on Emancipation Day
Eagle Eye is a proud partner of Mt Zion/Female Union Band Society Historic Memorial Park. We will be there on Saturday to honor these remarkable men, …
Check Out this Fascinating Resource
They came on ships with hopeful names like the Speedwell, or inspiring ones like the Industry or the True Blue. Ships named after loved ones …
Thank you, St. Albans!
A big thank you to Form A students at St. Albans! Thomas A. Duckenfield ’82 and Garrett A. Lowe ’84 had so much fun talking …
Inspired by Nannie’s Article in the Post? Join Us This Summer!
In this weekend’s Washington Post, there was an article about a child interred in Georgetown’s Mt. Zion Female Union Band Society Cemetery. Nannie, as her …
Emancipation Day 2021
Last Friday, Eagle Eye joined the Mt. Zion Female Union Band Society Historical Memorial Park, Inc. for an Emancipation Day celebration. Emancipation Day marks …
Free this week? Volunteers needed!
Eagle Eye has an opportunity to help out in the Mt. Zion-FUBS Cemetery (see description below). If you are on spring break this week (or free …
Black Lives Matter(ed): Henrietta and James Lewis
Last week we shortchanged you and didn’t write about the life of one of those interred in the Mt. Zion/Female Union Band Society cemetery in …
Black Lives Matter(ed): Isaiah Lemmon
The man whose memory we are honoring today is the wonderfully named Isaiah Lemmon, born in 1833 in Georgetown to a free woman Charity Lemmon …
Get Out! Oak Hill Cemetery
As we trudge toward spring, waiting for vaccines and dodging more infectious Covid mutations, we thought we would offer weekly suggestions for outings. Here’s Garrett’s …
Black Lives Matter(ed): Mary L. Beason
To celebrate Black History, on each Thursday of February, we at Eagle Eye are going to tell the story of the lives of one of …
