GO.SEE.DO. “Season’s Greenings” at the US Botanic Garden.
Get into the holiday spirit at the US Botanic Garden’s annual holiday exhibit, Season’s Greenings. The Conservatory is adorned with wreaths, garlands, living ornaments and filled with model trains, buildings made from plant materials and a vast collection of poinsettias to celebrate the wonder of the winter holiday season. The famous Garden Railway in the East Gallery features model trains running through an imaginative Enchanted Forest, with fanciful fairy dwellings along the rail line, all created with plant materials. Enjoy blooming plants throughout the Conservatory and a living history of poinsettias. The West Gallery houses one of the largest indoor decorated trees in Washington, DC, and the Garden Court is home to a display of model landmark buildings from our Nation’s capital, all made from plant materials. 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. usbg.gov
fantasy soars in the young and young at heart with model trains, as they chug along more than 800 feet of track through the usBg Enchanted forest. Photo: Courtesy of the architect of the Capitol.
Reclaiming the Edge: Urban Waterways and Civic Engagement Based on research by the Anacostia Community Museum on the history, public use, and attitudes toward the Anacostia River and its watershed and on review of urban waterway developments in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Louisville, London, and Shanghai, Reclaiming the Edge explores various issues regarding human interaction with natural resources in an urban setting. It looks at densely populated watersheds and at rivers as barriers to racial and ethnic integration. The exhibition also examines civic attempts to recover, clean up, re-imagine, or engineer urban rivers for community access and use. This exhibition, on view through September 15, 2013, kicked off the museum’s 45th anniversary. 1901 Fort Pl. SE. 202-633-4820. anacostia.si.edu 8 u Midcity DC | DECEMBER 2012
Learning to paddle a voyageur canoe on the Anacostia River. Photo: Photo by Keith Hyde, US Army Corps of Engineers, 2011; Wilderness Inquiry, Minneapolis, Minnesota.