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[META][DC Live Event] Washington, DC Tombstone Poker Event
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LouMac
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 		Good stuff, Magesteff. Thanks a bunch.

In other news: There's a "Swinton" at Congressional cemetery! I hope it's not Martin! I'm willing to bet he'll get worked in somehow...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:19 pm
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 		[SCOPED] Congressional Cemetery
NEIGHBORHOOD - I drove by the cemetery this morning. I am not that familiar with that part of DC, but it seems like gentrification and general urban prosperity in the area, so I have no particular concerns about a daylight excursion. Please note that's just a drive-by impression.

PARKING - There is only street parking for the cemetery (looks pretty plentiful although on weekends when everyone is home...), and there is more parking a couple of blocks away if needed. Here's the good news - there are plenty of police in the area, including a police station a few blocks away. The "bad" news - the big development you can see on the aerial maps next door - the DC Jail and DC General Hospital. The hospital has off-street parking and it's a 2-1/2 block walk to the cemetery entrance

GETTING THERE - (this is for people not too familiar with DC) - remember that DC is layed out on an easy grid. Number streets are North-South, letter streets East-West. The city is in four quandrants, and "zero" is the US Capitol building. The cemetery is in the southeast quadrant so number streets increase as you go east (-18, -E are the coordinates). Hard to get lost, but at the same time I would not want to wander around Southeast DC looking lost, so plan ahead.

Since I don't know where people are coming from I will mention a few basic ways to get there.

SUBWAY - Stadium Armory and Potomac Ave. stations appear equidistant. Stadium Armory lets you off on 19th St. Walk SOUTH until you hit the cemetery, one block WEST to the 18th St. entrance. Not sure where the subway exits are, but this is maybe 1-2 blocks from the DC General parking mentioned above. If you choose the Potomac Ave. station walk EAST on Potomac Ave. about 3 blocks to the cemetery entrance. (Potomac is not part of the grid - it a SW-NE diagonal street.) (I'll see if I can find out where the exits are and edit this.)

For people with CARS:

From the CAPITOL HILL/UNION STATION area, go EAST on INDEPENDENCE Ave. Turn RIGHT on 18th St. and it ends at the cemetery. (Wave at RFK stadium on the way.) You can also take CONSTITUTION Ave. across, but 18th St. doesn't meet it so you will have to go to 19th St. to get south and come back a block.

For locals, and the brave of heart - the SOUTHEAST-SOUTHWEST FREEWAY gets you within a couple of blocks. Going EAST, stay to the left on the freeway to the very end (do not get off at Pennsylvania Ave). Ignore all the signs at the end that say "Stadium Only" - go through the tunnel, up the slope (past the Do Not Enter sign) and turn left onto what is a residual element of Barney Circle (except it's not a circle anymore, and not really marked here). This little road is narrow but it's 2-way so watch out for traffic. The first stop sign is 17th St. (that's the cemetery on the raised ground to your right). Turn RIGHT, go 3 blocks north and turn RIGHT on E St. and you're there. (WARNING: As the signs indicate, parts of this route may not actually be legal, but I saw several people using it to get up to Pennsylvania Ave. and into the neighborhood. Use at your own risk.)

Coming from the North or South on I-295? Want to get off at Pennsylvania Ave. because it's right there? Sadly, there is no westbound exit from 295 there. Get off on Pennsylvania going EAST, go up a few blocks and turn and come back (the first several corners are marked for no U-turns and no left turns). Now that you are pointed the right direction (WEST), cross the Anacostia on Pennsylvania Ave. On the other side, right after the exit for I-395 there is a right hand turn onto Kentucky, then an immediate right on that piece of Barney Circle and then LEFT on 17th St. going NORTH. (Worst case, go on to 15th St. and make the right and come back on E St.)

Easier access from I-295 for those coming from the North (this will not work coming from the South) - the exit before Pennsylvania is the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge and I think it's also marked RFK Stadium. The road swings you around north of the stadium complex, and a couple blocks past the stadium you should be able to turn LEFT on 19th St. and come SOUTH to meet us at the cemetery. (18th St. does not go all the way through from up there, so be sure to use 19th.) Right on E St. one block to 18th, look for parking.

Now I haven't driven all of these routes, so I'll apologize now if a couple of one-way streets have crept in. The grid will save you.

Rain is predicted, and temps in the high 50's, so dress appropriately and bring your umbrella! Nothing worse than a bunch of wet tech geeks.

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 		Congressional Cemetery in Today's Washington Post
Thankfully does not suggest there is current investigations going on at Congressional:

Umm, actually there might be some continuing interest in the cemetery. The last page of the article reports that this week, as they were finally investigating the family crypt to decide if the skull belonged to William Wirt, they found some other remains that, while not recent (probably many years old), did not belong there. Best behavior, gang!

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Tale From the Crypt
Or, How to Get a Head in Politics Without Really Trying

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 20, 2005; Page C01

When the stone was pulled off the tomb, Douglas Owsley peered down into the burial vault. He could see rotted coffins that had been dragged off a shelf and bones strewn around the floor.

"It's a mess," he said. Then he climbed down into the grave.

Owsley is a forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian, a bone expert so famous that he is regularly summoned to inspect bodies from Guatemala to Croatia to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex.

Yesterday he drove to Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington and climbed into the family crypt of William Wirt, who was U.S. attorney general from 1817 to 1829, the presidential candidate of the Anti-Masonic Party in 1832, and a prosecutor in Aaron Burr's treason trial. Owsley was hoping to determine whether a skull that had been sitting on a shelf in D.C. Council member Jim Graham's office for a year and half is Wirt's stolen head.

Down in the burial vault, where Wirt and seven relatives were laid to rest, Owsley, 54, hung a lantern on a root that crept through the crypt. He looked around. The lead liners of long-rotted coffins littered the floor, along with the bones they once held. Other coffins sat on three shelves in various stages of decay.

"There is evidence of vandalism," Owsley said. "The three coffins on the lower shelf have been pulled off the shelf. On this lower shelf there's a coffin pulled halfway out."

He studied the bones in that coffin for a few moments.

"That's a female," he said.

* * *

The mystery of the missing skull is a macabre tale that includes grave-robbing, an eccentric collector, a Washington politician, a former attorney general and a mysterious skull sitting in an old tin box.

It all began around Christmas of 2003, when Bill Fecke, then manager of Washington's Congressional Cemetery, got a phone call from a man who wouldn't identify himself.

"What do you know about William Wirt's skull?" the mysterious caller asked.


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 		I've got Wirt's Leg!!
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krystyn wrote:
I've got Wirt's Leg!!


Yeah, and it's really good for bashing skeletons and zombies and icky things. Does your Wirt's leg have spaces for jewels?
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 		Re: Diablo II
krystyn wrote:
I've got Wirt's Leg!!

*spit-take*



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Magesteff wrote:
Does your Wirt's leg have spaces for jewels?

I have not killed the King of Cows!!
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krystyn wrote:
Magesteff wrote:
Does your Wirt's leg have spaces for jewels?

I have not killed the King of Cows!!


Man you need to toss that one away and keep trying for a better one. I have a leg with holes for three jewels (and stupidly put flawed ones in because I couldn't resist).




Yes this is a thread hijack. I have to do something reclaim my position as uF's top poster girl. Just put down the moderator tools and no one gets hurt.
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 		Just a friendly reminder that the next live event is in two days. I have 9 confirmed guests requesting contacts and only 4 entirely confirmed contacts with which to supply them.

If you want a contact or want to be a contact, you need to PM me with your contact information. Right now. I'm not kidding. If you volunteered last week and have not PM'd me about being a contact this week, you are not confirmed for this week.

I want everyone who asks for a contact to have one, so there needs to be some sort of response post-haste. The lists go out tomorrow night, meaning I need your information before then.

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 		Since I can't edit my original post:

Weather - still highs in the high 50's, "breezy with periods of rain"

Subway - should have mentioned the stations are on the Blue/Orange line.

Stadium Armory - there is a "DC General" exit - use that.

Potomac Ave. appears to have only one exit. Follow Potomac Ave (do not cross/follow Pennsylvania Ave.), walking NE.

Check this DC Metro map for more info on stations (click the station to get details and maps of the surrounding area: http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm
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 		I will be posting pictures live to my flickr account for those interested.

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 		I will steal your idea and do the same:

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