Another interesting event this Saturday: Armed Forces Retirement Home Family Festival

From the Friends of the Soldiers Home:

On the Lower Grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home
Rock Creek Church Rd & Randolph St NW

Saturday, May 4
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
FREE

Music performances, Carnival Games & Prizes, A Naturalist Walking Tour of the Grounds at 2pm, Toy Boat Races on the Pond, Food Trucks, DC Brau Microbrew Selections, Picnic baskets are welcome.

Please leave your dogs at home.
Parking on Grounds available for a $5 donation

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Typically, the grounds are closed to the public, so this is a very special event, and a great opportunity to get access to a place that you can't normally see.

The Washington Post Magazine had a piece on the Soldiers Home more recently, "Can Soldiers’ Home residents and urban gentrifiers overcome barbed wire?," featuring a couple that reached out and gardened with some of the residents.

It's also the kind of potential "park space" that the city has that may not necessarily be open to the public, or under the jurisdiction of the local government.

-- Posts on the Soliders Home from the Park View DC blog.  (Image above from this website.)