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Dupont Circle

Author: Paul Kafka-Gibbons
Copyright: 2001
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Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Jonathan Allard walks toward the fountain at the center of Dupont Circle and, Jon has always thought, of the capital itself. Jon’s theory that Dupont Circle is a paradise in the heart of the city and the nation goes this way: In Dupont Circle poor meets rich, old meets young, gay meets straight, native meets new arrival, and the peoples, styles, and languages all squish together to form America.
Excerpt Page Number: 3
Address: 1 Dupont Circle 20036
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 2000s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Jonathan Allard walks toward the fountain at the center of Dupont Circle and, Jon has always thought, of the capital itself. Jon’s theory that Dupont Circle is a paradise in the heart of the city and the nation goes this way: In Dupont Circle poor meets rich, old meets young, gay meets straight, native meets new arrival, and the peoples, styles, and languages all squish together to form America.
Excerpt Page Number: 3
Address: Dupont Circle 20036
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: The fountain at Dupont throws a crown of water upward into the breeze. White sheets of water pour from the upper basin to the collecting pool. As Bailey strides beneath the sycamores in the long evening sunlight, a fine mist reaches him.
Excerpt Page Number: 86
Address: 1 Dupont Circle 20036
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: They ride on, passing between the buffalo on the Q Street Bridge and continuing into Georgetown.
Excerpt Page Number: 110
Address: 2450 Q Street NW 20008
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: In Montrose Park, a tall man is doing tai chi. Nita bumps along the grass past him. A couple in matching knee braces play a slow tennis match on one of the courts alongside Dumbarton. Big crows stand nearby while Jon gets out his tools and removes Nita’s training wheels. His heart pounds.
Excerpt Page Number: 113
Address: 3000 R Street NW 20007
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: They pass the art deco facade of the Uptown theater, the Broadmoor apartments.
Excerpt Page Number: 118
Address: 3426 Connecticut Avenue NW 20008
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Jon maneuvers the weighted cart down the cereal aisle in pursuit of Nita’s Sugar Pops. He returns faithfully to the Safeway on Corcoran the way another person might bring flowers to a cemetery. David Matthieson, dead six years now, cannot know that Jon shops here to honor his memory.
Excerpt Page Number: 131
Address: 1701 Corcoran Street NW 20009
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: He lives right near Politics & Prose and has invited her twice to join him after work, to get dinner and browse. The bookstore and Tom’s eyes are an appealing combination.
Excerpt Page Number: 138
Address: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW 20008
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Nita sleeps in a pretty maple bed, which catches the light. A stack of books from the West End Library reaches almost to mattress height. The Wind in the Willows, which she was reading with Jon last night, is on top.
Excerpt Page Number: 154
Address: 2301 L Street NW 20037
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Louisa passes the lions, crosses the Taft Bridge. Tree tops float just beyond the railings. Louise can’t understand Washington’s bridges, which are built over trees and creeks, rather than rivers.
Excerpt Page Number: 168
Address: Taft Bridge NW (Connecticut Avenue @ Rock Creek) 20009
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: Bailey and Louisa wend their way to Logan Circle and ride south on 11st Street past two-story bungalows fronted by matchbook lawns.
Excerpt Page Number: 207
Address: Logan Circle NW 20005
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: But they stop in “just for a minute” at Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. No sooner do they enter the bookstore than Peter finds himself face to face with a small but prominent display of the newest novel by his cherished rival. Jon makes his way to the history section, so he doesn’t see Peter stop in his tracks. Peter buys the book and heads to the cafe to read.
Excerpt Page Number: 241
Address: 1517 Connecticut Ave NW 20036
Setting Year:
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Family Life, Friendship, Gay Culture
Excerpt: The water of the fountain is blue. Not the bright aqua of a spotlit fountain, but a cool jazzy blue, at nearly eleven. The October sky is reflected upside-down in the water, the clouds pouring off the lip of the saucer above the inscription, Samuel Francis Du Pont, Rear-Admiral. Jon and Peter have settled onto one of Dupont’s benches. Across from them, a young woman with a guitar sings about love. Pot perfumes the air.
Excerpt Page Number: 244
Address: Dupont Circle 20036