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Cuttlefish Feasting.
Jun 21

Washington, D.C., United States

Cephalopod Movie Night with Science Friday!

Join the Science Friday crew to celebrate Cephalopod Week with libations and an immersion into the underwater world of these strange tentacled creatures.
Prohibition officers after raiding Carl Hammel's lunchroom on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1923.
Jun 28

Washington, D.C., United States

The Great War With Prohibition

Talk Prohibition with historian Garrett Peck at D.C.'s first solar-powered brewery Atlas Brew Works.
Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square.
Jul 1

Washington, D.C., United States

Scandal, Assassination, and Spies in Lafayette Square

Join former White House speechwriter Ed Moser as we wade into the swamp in front of Washington’s most famous residence.
Reconstructed Lord Mayor's Tenement in the historic area of Historic London Town and Gardens.
Jul 8

Edgewater, Maryland

Unearthing Lost Towns

Dig, sift, and time travel centuries into the past with the Lost Towns Project.

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