Text Box: WELCOME, NEWCOMERS! After leaving homes in five countries and three continents over the last eight years, Scott and Andrea Wilson and their three children finally reached Glen Echo early this year. Exciting as we all know this town to be, it is surely the least so of their previous locales. Scott was appointed foreign editor of The Washington Post while serving as its bureau chief in Jerusalem, where the family lived for two-and-a-half years. Kate, 9, Meg, 7, and Ben, 5, attended the American International School there with Israeli and Arab fellow students as well as those from other countries. They are now all students at Bannockburn Elementary. Before the Jerusalem assignment, the Wilsons lived in Amman, Jordan, where Scott was Middle East correspondent for the Post, and in other troubled spots, such as Venezuela, Haiti, and Colombia. Scott and Andrea knew each other in grade school in Santa Barbara, Calif., but didn’t start dating until after Scott had finished graduate school at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York, and was working at the Santa Barbara News-Press. They married in Santa Barbara in 1996. Andrea received a master’s degree in public policy at Georgetown University, and later worked as a labor economist at Westat, a private research firm in Rockville, Md. They moved to Annapolis when Scott started working for the Baltimore Sun, and later lived in Chevy Chase, when he moved to the Post. On this, their third move to D.C., they picked 6106 Bryn Mawr because they heard good things about Glen Echo at the Post (Glen Echo has two other resident Post staffers—or “Posties,” as they are called--Bill Turque and Deborah Howell). They were also attracted to the reputed excellence of the local schools. A hearty welcome to you all! Text Box: DISAPPOINTING RESPONSE TO ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARTY “People don’t realize how much fun it is,” she said. Let us hope that Kate retains her enthusiasm for another try next year, and that townspeople realize what a wonderful time they missed this year. For the dozen town residents who signed up to attend the St. Patrick’s Day party last month and had begun composing their limericks, it was a big disappointment to learn that it had been cancelled for lack of response. The party has always featured marvelous food and drink, humorous limericks, and rollicking Irish jigs, which many participants cavorted to energetically. Over the years it has been arranged by former resident Kate Horwitz, an Irish lass who has not lost her love for the town and is still ready to take on all the responsibilities of planning such an elaborate party. For her, the cancellation was a huge disappointment as well. But she is determined to “make it work” in the future. She is thinking of scheduling the party earlier in the evening so guests will be encouraged to bring children, and possibly having a leprechaun hunt or family singing of Irish songs and Irish dancing. --Carlotta Anderson

 

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66109 Princeton Ave.                       $774,900 (under contract)

6004 Bryn Mawr Ave.                    $499,000