Neighborhood Joints

Washington’s oldest Irish bar. On Capitol Hill. Congressional backyard, just behind the Library of Congress and around the corner from the Supreme Court. Two old brick rowhouses, joined together, painted black. Bay windows, like glass mushrooms capped with green-gold oxidated copper, pushing out onto the sidewalk, akimbo to the front door. Squeezed in among narrow buildings; a dry-cleaner, liquor store, bookshop and other bars. Raised cornflower-golden letters in a faux old English script proclaim Hawk‘n’Dove under the eaves. It was …

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