Robert S. Pohl

Robert S. Pohl has been a licensed D.C. tour guide since 2009 and writes a regular column for both the local newspaper Hill Rag and the blog The Hill is Home. When he isn't touring or writing, he volunteers at the Southeast Library and at his son's school.

Pohl is the author of A House on the Hill: The History of 219 11th St SE; Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia; Wicked Capitol Hill: An Unruly History of Behaving Badly; and Urban Legends of Historic Lore of Washington D.C. He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, son, and two cats.