Beyond downtown museums and mid-town and uptown galleries the Historic
ANACOSTIA NEIGHBORHOOD HOSTS AND MAINTAINS SEVERAL OUTDOOR
MUSEUM-quality canvasses of a half-dozen FREDERICK DOUGLASS-themed
MURALS CREATED BY LOCAL EMERGING ARTISTS, citywide artist collectives
and some of of the best known muralists in the city and region. Join
local street historian and author John Muller for a unique walking
tour to visit and discuss these distinctive works of art and their
local importance and historic significance.
Questions and photography are encouraged throughout the walking tour!
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MEETING POINT: outside of the Anacostia Metro Station (Green Line)
END POINT: the visitor’s center of the Frederick Douglass National
Historic Site [https://www.nps.gov/frdo/index.htm], 1411 W Street SE
Wear walking shoes, total travel is 2 miles. Parts of the tour are
not accessible for people with mobility issues. Tour is not ADA
accessible.
Metro: Anacostia (Green Line)
[https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/anacostia.cfm] / 92 Bus,
V2, B2
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John Muller, author of _Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The
Lion of Anacostia_
[https://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-C-Anacostia/dp/1609495772/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lion+of+anacostia&qid=1574596968&s=books&sr=1-1] and _Mark
Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent_
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609499646/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1],
has led walking tours of Old Anacostia for the past seven years, as
well as leading walking tours of Baltimore, Cambridge on the Eastern
Shore, Frederick City in Western Maryland as well as Douglass-themed
tours of 7th Street / Georgia Avenue and Capitol Hill.
Muller has presented widely throughout the DC-Baltimore metropolitan
area at venues including the Library of Congress, Newseum, Politics
and Prose, American Library in Paris and local universities. He is
currently working on a book about the lost history of Frederick
Douglass on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
He has been quoted on the back of the 70 bus as well as in the pages
of the _Washington Post_, _Star Democrat_ and other newspapers of
record, as well as being featured on the airwaves of C-SPAN’s
BookTV, C-SPAN’s American History TV, WDVM (Hagerstown), NBC4
(Washington), WPFW, WAMU, WYPR and Delmarva Pubic Radio.
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