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Past articles by John:

Marlene Dietrich and Jimmy Stewart: Chance encounters with the famous

Actress Marlene Dietrich had a special request when she visited wartime Paris. → Read More

Profiles in Kennedy: Readers remember their encounters with JFK

Meeting John F. Kennedy in a taxi cab — and a church. → Read More

Our canine summer visitor is slowly getting the run of the house

He makes a lot of demands, but he's pretty irresistible. → Read More

More tales of street names from the suburbs of Washington

And was there a meetinghouse on Piney Meetinghouse Road? → Read More

Burt Reynolds changed my tire and other tales of fleeting fame

If you ever bump into someone famous then you will probably remember it forever. → Read More

Would you pay $110 for a work poster you could print for free?

The letter looked official. Lots of scam mailings do these days. → Read More

With a bang: Remembering how Washingtonians have celebrated July 4

John Adams called for "pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations." → Read More

Every family has a tale of a celebrity who entered a relative’s orbit

Stories of the famous, told around the dinner table. Plus: an apostrophe catastrophe. → Read More

Others stepped up to help when a restaurant patron stopped breathing

Her heart stopped as time seemed balanced on an invisible pivot between two futures. → Read More

Street names give a sense of place, of people and of history

Would you want to live on a street named after a battle? → Read More

Fledglings are leaving their nests and flying into the wider world

For a family of house wrens, it was moving day. → Read More

My tomatoes will be so good I probably won't even bother growing them

Have you ever had one of my tomatoes? Me neither. → Read More

On a roll: For pinsetters, duckpin bowling sometimes meant ‘Duck’!

“Once in a while a boy will have to have a few stitches taken in his head.” → Read More

Data driven: Some street names in Warrenton really do compute

The Vint Hill development honors early computer pioneers. → Read More

The spirit of radio: Tuning in to a couple of new Bethesda street names

Harden Alley and Weaver Alley are named after WMAL mainstays. → Read More

The stories behind Atteentee Road and Temporary Road in Fairfax County

One Fairfax street is named after AT&T. Another has long been called Temporary Road. → Read More

A father's gift of a kidney gave his child a normal life for decades

“He said to the surgeon, ‘I’m going to give her my kidney. It’s going to be me.’” → Read More

Remembering a time when duckpin bowling ruled the roost in D.C.

Greenway and New Recreation were just two beloved bowling alleys. → Read More

Bugapalooza honors disease-spreading insects — and how to kill them

The military spends a lot of time thinking about insects. → Read More

When supersonic jets were developed, sonic booms soon followed

In the 1950s, it started to get loud. → Read More