{"id":10471,"date":"2016-07-07T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2016-07-07T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:48:35","slug":"city-of-good-intentions-i-review-a-local-history-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/07\/city-of-good-intentions-i-review-a-local-history-show.html","title":{"rendered":"“City of Good Intentions”: I review a local history show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at the Anacostia Museum:<\/p>\n

Sometimes it seems like the nation\u2019s capital is really two cities: dateline Washington and hometown DC. The current show at the Smithsonian\u2019s Anacostia Community Museum, \u201cTwelve Years that Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963 \u2013 1975<\/a>,\u201d is an attempt to bridge the gap\u2013or at least to give official Washington\u2019s view of unofficial DC.<\/p>\n

The show is one of those \u201csocial history\u201d grab-bags: a display about public colleges here, a selection of dashikis there. We get morsels of a lot of things but few full dishes. Why isn\u2019t there any video in the section on black dance and theater? Why not let us hear<\/em> some go-go<\/a>, the native form of funk born toward the tail end of the show\u2019s timeline? Why are all the photos printed onto deeply-colored backgrounds, making them blurry and inartistic?<\/p>\n

But as you move through the meandering exhibit, a few arguments do emerge.<\/p>\n

The timeline is itself an argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a> (note to visitors: If you go on the weekday by metro you have to hike up a big old hill. If you go on the weekend there\u2019s a free shuttle. I stopped at a rec center right before I reached the museum to ask directions\u2013it\u2019s also not super easy to find the first time\u2013and I was bright red and sweating. Like a human Coke can.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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