Fort Reno Historic Exhibit Tour

Friendship Heights Alliance

Tour the exhibit & learn more about NPC programs at Chesapeake House and the role they played in nurturing community and DC youth culture.

Pepco Harrison Street Substation

By the late 1960s, Washington, D.C. was grappling with the consequences of decades of segregationist policy and widespread disinvestment. Top-down social interventions caused, in the eyes of a growing number of people, more problems than they solved. One response was the concept of community development, where decisions were made at the smallest scale possible, through nonprofits, jobs programs, and hyper-local democracy. Central to this movement in DC were a summer jobs program, greater access to recreation, and organizations called Neighborhood Planning Councils.The now-famous Fort Reno concerts are a direct legacy of these three programs. But NPCs and their related youth programs had a much bigger legacy through the people that passed through them. Governed by elected boards of both adults and youths, the NPCs arranged recreation, provided unstructured resources, and connected neighborhoods in a fraught city. Many bands got their start in NPC programs. Neighborhood Planning Council #2, which served Tenleytown and Friendship Heights, even conducted some of of the first historical research on the Reno community. But since they faded in DC&#x27;s financial crisis of the 1990s, almost nothing has been written about these experiments that for twenty years were pillars of their communities. Please join former NPC #2/3 staffers Tony Sarmiento, Phil Stewart and shadow senator Paul Strauss as they discuss their careers at the beginning and the end NPC system. They will be joined by writer Dan Reed and historian Neil Flanagan to bring context to the organizations and the opportunities facing teenagers since their closure. We strongly encourage anyone who participated in NPC programs or worked at the councils attend.When: The exhibit is open all the time! B﻿agels and coffee will be served - the talk will run from 10:30 -11:30 Where: Pepco Harrison Street Substation, 5210 Wisconsin Avenue NW.

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Fort Reno Historic Exhibit Tour

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