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Shepherd Park Friends’ Annual Public Meeting Guest Speaker

Wed, Nov 4 · 6:30 PM Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library

Sarah Jane Schonfeld, editor of Washington History Magazine, will be the featured speaker at the annual Public Meeting of the Friends of the Juanita E. Thornton-Shepherd Park Library. The meeting will be held Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. Schonfeld will speak on “The Tortured History of Home Rule in D.C.” Before become Washington History’s editor, she was guest editor for a 2024 issue of the magazine that chronicled home rule in the District. The meeting will also include the nomination and election of Friends officers for 2027. For more details, contact Friends president Mark Pattison at [email protected].

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