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Reading and book signing by the delightful\u00a0Mary Z. Gray<\/strong>, author of\u00a0301 East Capitol: Tales From the Heart of the Hill<\/em><\/strong>, just published by the Overbeck History Press.<\/p>\n A conversation with Mary Z. Gra<\/strong>y<\/p>\n at Hill Center, 901 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E.<\/p>\n Sunday, February 12, at 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> for more information and to reserve a seat!<\/p>\n \u00a0And<\/p>\n Mary Z. Gray returns to 301 East Capitol<\/strong><\/p>\n A reading and signing at her childhood home,<\/p>\n now the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Haskell Center<\/p>\n 301 East Capitol Street<\/p>\n Monday, February 13, at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n No reservation required.<\/p>\n To most of the world, “Capitol Hill”\u00a0 means the U.S. Congress. This book is about the personal side of the Hill, where for five generations a family of music makers and undertakers, homemakers and home breakers, shared a small neighborhood with the white-domed Capitol of the United States.<\/p>\n Washington writer Mary Z. Gray, born in 1919, brings vividly back to life the community she saw and heard from her childhood home at 301 East Capitol. Streetcars run again; newsboys reappear, shouting headlines on street corners. Tom the huckster hawks his wares from a horse-drawn wagon, as a lamplighter at dusk leaves pools of light along a dark street. And a mystery that had haunted the writer’s family for over 50 years is solved.<\/p>\n