HORSE, OF COURSE
FROM THE EDITOR
Webmaster reflects on the job of a stay-at-home parent. P. 2
Two of Ulysses S. Grant’s prized Arabians lived in Hyattsville. P. 6
Path between College Park, Riverdale now open for use
URBAN FORESTS
Miss Floribunda propounds the advantages of urban forests. P. 13
Life&Times
By Meagan Miller
Two pillars at the corner of Albion Road and Route 1 were tied together by a red ribbon at 8:30 a.m. on April 5. Folks from the neighborhood and representatives from around the county snacked on donated Pike’s Place brew coffee from Riverdale Park Station Starbucks and blueberry, strawberry, blackberry and cheese pastries from Riverdale Park Station Whole Foods as they celebrated the opening of a 300-foot multi-use side path. The path was built to soften the
Vol. 15 No. 4
Hyattsville’s Community Newspaper
April 2018
YOUTH AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE
PATH continued on page 10
More than clothes are exchanged at HY-Swap By Maria D. James
When the Hyattsville Nurturing Moms (HNMoms) group first started the HY-Swap, a community exchange of infant, children’s and maternity clothing, toys and gear, in the fall of 2014, the event was managed by 10 volunteers and served 90 families. Last fall, that number increased to 73 volunteers and 312 families served. The next HY-Swap will be held Saturday, April 21 at the Hyattsville Municipal Building, 4310 Gallatin Street. Doors open at 11 a.m. for Hyattsville families and friends first. Then, the general public is welcome at 1 p.m. Clothing and toy donations are not accepted on the day of the swap. Only big items such as bouncers, car seats, highchairs, SWAP continued on page 3
JULIETTE FRADIN PHOTOGRAPHY Gaspard Borrut, 3, and sister Garance Borrut, 7, children of Juliette Fradin, hold up signs during the “March for Our Lives” held March 24. “We decided to go to the march with the kids because we wanted to support the American youth in this important moment,” said Fradin. See p. 9 for a related story on the March 14 student walkout.
Underneath a cracked, crumbling parking lot in Hyattsville could be a piece of the suffragette movement — and an early 20th-century ballfield
Unearthing history
By Andra Damron
Celebrating Hyattsville’s 132nd anniversary of incorporation is the perfect opportunity to honor its rich history. But who would suspect that a cracked and crumbling, vacant parking lot might conceal elements of our national
and local past? Covered and protected by a layer of asphalt, the remains of one of Hyattsville’s earliest ballparks may be waiting for archaeologists to reveal its secrets. Known historically as Wine’s Woods, and at a later date Zantinger’s Park, the site is more familiar as the inauspicious parking lot of the former
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission headquarters. Evidence indicates that the floodplain may hold the remains of an early 20th-century ballfield, and mark the site of an important women’s suffrage event. HISTORY continued on page 12
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