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About exploreDC.org

exploreDC.org is a creation by staff at WETA, a community licensed public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, Washington, DC.

Our goal is to provide an exciting, illustrative, interactive one-stop-search about the history, heritage and culture of Washington, DC and the capital region. On this site you can:

• Uncover fascinating stories of local history — tales of people and places in neighborhoods around town
  
  
• Read about African American life in Washington
  
  
• Learn about the planning and building of the capital city
  
  
• Study the US Presidents and the institutions of American government
  
  
• Take a virtual tour of monuments and neighborhoods
  
  
• Use the Lesson Plans for creative classroom study
  
  

• Link to us: it is easy to put exploreDC.org on your site
  
  
• Read our Frequently Asked Questions
  
  

About WETA

exploreDC.org is produced under the auspices of WETA, a public broadcasting station licensed in the District of Columbia and transmitting from Maryland and Virginia. An independent, non-profit broadcaster and producer, WETA-TV available to people in the Greater Washington area and nationwide through the Public Broadcasting Service. WETA-TV is best known for nationally acclaimed public affairs programs such as Washington Week In Review and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; for performance programming such as Kennedy Center Presents, In Performance at the White House, A Capital Fourth Concert and The National Memorial Day Concert, and for American history documentaries such as Ken Burns’ Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, the Civil War and JAZZ. WETA-FM brings NPR news and public affairs programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered, to the audience along with classical music and an array of entertainment programming. WETA is committed to local connections through a variety of community outreach activities involving formal and informal learning in classrooms K-12; with pre-schoolchildren and caregivers; and partners in the fields of education and the arts. WETA's President and CEO is Sharon Percy Rockefeller. To find out more about the station, please visit http://www.weta.org.

exploreDC.org Funders:

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967. The mission of CPB is to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services. It does this in conjunction with non-commercial educational telecommunications licensees across America.

The fundamental purpose of public telecommunications is to provide programs and services that inform, enlighten and enrich the public. While these programs and services are provided to enhance the knowledge, and citizenship, and inspire the imagination of all Americans, the Corporation has particular responsibility to encourage the development of programming that involves creative risks and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences, particularly children and minorities. Learn more about CPB by going to their Web site: http://www.cpb.org.

The Rice Family Foundation supports endeavors in health, education and the environment.

WETA contributes considerable in-kind services to maintain exploreDC.org. A profile of the organization is listed at the top of this page.

ExploreDC.org Staff

Inside WETA:
Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, Senior Vice President for Strategic Projects, Executive Producer
Anne Harrington, Project Manager
Dewey Blanton, Project Manager, National TV Promotion
Thanh Bui, Graphic Designer, Learning Media
Jeanne Fischetti, Intern
Andrea Murray, Cultural Reporter, WETA-FM
Walter Rissmeyer, Director, Interactive Media
John Shortess, Manager, Interactive Media
Shar Taylor, Development Officer, Foundations and Government Development

Consultants: Content Contributors:
Mary Jo Binker, Writer
Paul Duke, Journalist
Lenore Miller, Art Historian
Rachel Yarnell Thompson, Education Consultant
Barbara Delman Wolfson, Senior Editor

exploreDC.org Advisors:
Barbara Franco, Director of the Washington Historical Society
Mychalene Giampaoli, Education Director, Washington Historical Society
E. Ethelbert Miller, Washington poet and writer
Nathaniel H. Moone, Teacher, American History at Anacostia High School
Kathryn Schneider Smith, Director, DC Heritage Tourism Coalition

Site Design:
Dennis | Konetzka | Design Group, Washington DC.
DKDG is a full service design firm that develops, designs and produces web sites, graphic identities (branding) and publications for a wide variety of corporations, institutions and organizations. DKDG's expertise in design and implementation produce elegant, fully functional and well integrated communication products that bring satisfaction to clients and users. http://www.denniskonetzka.com

Special thanks to:
Marilyn Cooley
Adam Csillag
Dan DeVany
Mary Esselman
Mark Fastoso
David Ginder
William Harrison
Kate Hawley
Craig Impink
Charles Lawson
Diane Leipzig
Linwood Lloyd
Peggy O'Brien
Keith Stanley, photographer (www.kestan.com)
Jaime Stewart
Mary Stewart
Philip Ugelow
Joseph Widoff
Dolores Yrisarry

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