Discovering a different side of Washington, D.C.

Bring up Washington, D.C. these days and it can elicit, among others things, a gag reflex.

But that’s the D.C. we all know from the media who report the dysfunctional connection associated with the city that is central to virtually all things government in this nation.

Defining “the other Washington,” is an important distinction. Our Washington is arguably of course God’s Country, while that other Washington consists of massive monolithic structures, which, when you see them, certainly can become metaphors for this city being at the center of our political pit of quicksand.

In traveling back t...